FORMOSA AND ITS INHABITANTS, Book Illustration (Print), 1895

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FROM 'THE PICTURE MAGAZINE'

PUBLISHED BY GEORGE NEWNES LTD, 1895

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FORMOSA AND ITS INHABITANTS.

Very exceptional interest attaches lust now touhe Island of Formosa, in that it will probably change hands at no distant date as a result Of the conflict between China and Japan. Her aboriginal inhabitants yet linger there, though Chinese civilization has driven them steadily backward to the mountains, to the inaccessible and lonely places of Nature, hidden in the heart of the island. Though each and all possess common affinity with the Malay, these Savages are of many different tribes and speak varied languages. Here and

THE ARTS OF PEACE.
there the lowland men have accepted the friendship of the conqueror and conformed to his manners and customs of living, but the mountain folks are fierce as hawks, bred to blood and blows. The aboriginal on the war-path is a formidable being enough, for he has
all the wood-craft of the wild things of Nature, with the added cunning of an intelligent beast. One of them is shown in our first picture ; our second picture shows the aboriginal female, tamed down by clvilization ; she is weaving hemp in a primitive loom, hemp being now an important product of Formosa, and widely exported.


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