Sketches from Formosa.

INCIDENTS IN KA-GI CITY 83
mother, however, could not bear the thought of her two
helpless young children being left behind, and she darted
in to rescue them, when my poor blind pupil became
childless and a widower in an instant of time. No sooner
had the Governor-General at Tai-pak received telegraphic
information of the magnitude of the calamity, than
instructions were issued for a large company of surgeons,
nurses, and assistants to proceed at once to Ka-gi. Wide
hospital-sheds were erected without delay, and the work
of relief was carried on with a rare amount of self-denial
and promptitude. Even already, the city has lost
much of its most desolate appearance, and the projected
improvements give promise that it will have a more
attractive look than ever.