Sketches from Formosa.

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accommodation in a neighbouring little temple. After
supper, the people gathered into the open porch in front,
to whom we preached and sold tracts till about midnight.
It was on the following day we passed through the
market-town of Lim-ki-paw, where several dollars' worth
of books and tracts could easily have been sold, had it
been possible to halt for an hour or so. We met with
unusually heavy rains during the afternoon of that day,
and the crossing of a number of mountain torrents also
helped to retard our progress. Darkness found us wandering
about on a stony plain, where roving bands of head-
hunting savages occasionally make their appearance.
The right path had somehow escaped us, and the people
were all in bed when we came straggling into the little
hamlet of Tsui-li-khe.
Po-li-sia was reached late on the evening of the following
day, still in the midst of heavy rain ; and this, with the
dampness of the room in which I was put up, brought on
cold and a sharp attack of aguish fever, which kept me
rather weak for several days. I was glad to learn that
the three Po-li-sia Churches continue to show signs of true
spiritual progress. On this occasion, it was my privilege
to examine thirty candidates for baptism, and twelve
of these were gladly welcomed to the table of the Lord.
Arrangements are now being completed for building a
new chapel at Aw-gu-lan, and for using the present chapel
as a schoolroom. One source of much concern to the
Po-li-sia people now is the hostility of the neighbouring
savages, who keep lurking about the base of the hills,
and rush out whenever the opportunity of obtaining a
head presents itself. One of our Church members was
very recently cut off in this way, and the people dare not
go out to their daily work in the fields without carrying
their weapons with them.
I think it probable that, before long, very important