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XXIV LIVING ON POTATOES AND WORMS AT one time I paid a missionary visit to Couch Island (of the Pescadores group), which lies about fifteen miles off the south-west coast of <strong>Formosa</strong>. It contains not more than a hundred inhabitants, and no Christian worker had ever been amongst them. As the sea got up soon after my arrival, I was storm-bound there for fully a week. The Chinese islanders are an extremely miserable class of people, who derive a precarious living <strong>from</strong> the produce of the sea, and the cultivation of small patches of ground, on which they raise a coarse kind of millet and sweet potatoes. They all listened very sympathetically when I preached or spoke to them individually about God and His love for us in Jesus Christ. Their resources were much strained in providing sleeping accommodation for me ; but the former want was met by getting two or three planks laid on the earthen floor of a road-side shrine, and I said I would be delighted to share their meals of grated potatoes and salt fish. After two or three days of this experience, I was seized with severe stomach-ache, and discovered the cause on managing to crawl along to the coral-built shanty where the potatoes were cooked. I saw there a very large basket of bamboo splints, which could contain at least six months' supply of potatoes ; and, on looking inside, was surprised to see the contents moving in a curious sort of way. At that moment, too, the woman dipped in her ladle to get a
LIVING ON POTATOES AND WORMS 135 supply for our mid-day meal. A closer inspection revealed the presence of whole masses of whitish worms among the potatoes. On excitedly calling attention to this, the old husband only stupidly stared at me ; but, after insisting that he should stand up and see for himself, all he said was, " Oh, it's the worms you mean. Why, they contain any amount of fat, and nothing could make the potatoes go down more easily/' I was helped to the little boat which took me over to Amoy, and fell twice on the way up to Mr. Macgregor's, where Christian kind- ness soon put me right again.
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SKETCHES FROM FORMOSA
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TO THE Bops and Girls OF THE PRESBY
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PREFACE SOME of the following Sketc
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ARRIVAL IN THE ISLAND 19 seen. It i
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HAVING A BRIEF HOLIDAY 23 such ailm
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Ill BROUGHT INTO A WEALTHY PLACE I
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THE SEK-HWAN ABORIGINES 43 endless
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THE SEK-HWAN ABORIGINES 45 attentio
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FAR AFIELD NORTHWARD 47 had to work
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FAR AFIELD NORTHWARD 49 fellowship
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FAR AFIELD NORTHWARD 5 1 of an infl
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FAR AFIELD NORTHWARD 53 Mr. Mackay'
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FAR AFIELD NORTHWARD 55 besides the
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FAR AFIELD NORTHWARD 57 have commen
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FAR AFIELD NORTHWARD 59 baptism. Th
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FAR AFIELD NORTHWARD 63 Next mornin
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VI TROUBLE FROM JAPAN IN 1874 IN 18
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VII INCIDENTS IN KA-GI CITY SEVERAL
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VIII CONFIRMING THE CHURCHES I SHAL
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IN JEOPARDY XXXIII AT CHIANG-HOA TH
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IN JEOPARDY AT CHIANG-HOA 185 At th
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IN JEOPARDY AT CHIANG-HOA 187 Kwa-l
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IN JEOPARDY AT CHIANG-HOA Now Israe
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XXXV OUT AGAIN BY THE HIGHWAYS AND
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XXXVI SEED AMONG THORNS AND ON GOOD
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XXXVII REPORT FROM COLPORTEUR Li PA
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XXXVIII STUDENT LAU-SENG IN THE PUL
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XXXIX ORDINATION AT AW-GU-LAN IN or
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XL OUR LANGUAGE PROBLEMS AND LITERA
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OUR LANGUAGE PROBLEMS AND LITERATUR
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CHURCH PRAISE IN FORMOSA 245 Accord
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XLII WOMEN AND CHILDREN OF THE ISLA
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WOMEN AND CHILDREN OF THE ISLAND 24
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A RETROSPECT AND A FORECAST 263 Rep
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A RETROSPECT AND A FORECAST 265 lif
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A RETROSPECT AND A FORECAST 267 Ind
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A RETROSPECT AND A FORECAST 269 eve
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A RETROSPECT AND A FORECAST 271 Tho
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A RETROSPECT AND A FORECAST 273 ven
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A RETROSPECT AND A FORECAST 275 los
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A RETROSPECT AND A FORECAST 277 Pek
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A RETROSPECT AND A FORECAST 283 Eng
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XLV BRITISH ALLIANCE WITH JAPAN As
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THE JAPANESE AS COLONIZERS 333 kill
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WORK OF THE EARLY DUTCH MISSION 337
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A-CHUN'S hospitality . A-li-kang, C
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