Sketches from Formosa.

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SKETCHES FROM FORMOSA
would begin again to work heartily hand in hand. They
were then called upon to unite in singing our Chinese
version of the Hundredth Psalm, and it was the volume
of unmelodious sound which burst from those on the
right that fairly startled me. Why, the song
of Moses
and Miriam on the shores of the Red Sea was not in it ;
and as for many of the poor Saturday-ites I saw that,
in the words of our great National Poet, they simply
" gaepit wide but naething spak."