This was no lonely outpost of the Japanese Empire I was visiting, but rather a busy centre of it; T heard Ister that Keelung is new the chief It is impossible to dwell but briefly upon: that railway journey, but by far the most impressive sights upon it were the mountains rising to 13,000 fect high, hiding their heads away up in the sky and the huge waterways that came down from them. These had only. trickles of water in them when I saw them but I can imagine that awful, roaring floods must come down in the typhoon sesson for their wide beds are covered with huge rocks and boulders and here and there the infinetly gaunt and desolate remains of a bridge, sometimes of iron, sometimes of stone, human life is to be seen, no domestic animal, in weird contrast to the, rest of the richly cultivated prosperous land through which the train passed. Many of these watersheds must be two or even three miles wide near the coast where the railroad lies, Interested as I was T'was glad to rench Taihokoo to be greeted by an English-speaking man from the hotel and enjoy again the foreign comforts there,
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