Of the trip to Keelunz I will only say this. No doubt Focehow is well known to the average Sharghainder, but the beauty of the spai Pass left me breathlessly delighted, and as no one had ever mentioned it to me before, shall always regard it as my own discovery.
On awaking in Keelung the morning after we left Foochow T went on deck to find a most beauti-
Much can here be learned of the history of the island oven by thos: who like myself cannot road the Japanese notices of the After teresting hours spent in the streets delightful ones in the be: botanical gardens all made more pleasant by the real comfort of the Taiwan Hotel, I returned two days later to Keelung where I joined my ship and continued my journey to Takow, fol natural harbour with green hills rising precipitously "tier behind tier till the misty grey clouds blotted them out. A pictaresque white lighthouse built by the, then, Imperial Chinese Maritime Customs before Formosa became Japanese territory, on a rocky height guarding ' the narrow: entrance and, best of all, pure limpid waters rising wave on wave to fall again in boiling lacy foam on the dark rocks stretching along the outer shores of the harbour.
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