Among the Head-Hunters of Formosa

written for the general reader, rather than for the specialist in anthropology or ethnology. Hence many details-especially those concerning minor differences in ma

formation as the book contains may stimulate interest, and perhaps encourage further investigation, befor

(vol. ii) for 1873, says: "Decay and death are always sad sights to contemplate, and when

ent. in less than fifty years. Under the present system of "benevolent assimilation" on the part of the Japanese Government the aboriginal population seems declining at an even more rapid rate than it did under Chinese rule, which ended in 1895. Hence if the mistake which was made in the case of the Tasmanians-that of allowing them to die out before definite or detailed information regarding their beliefs and customs was gained-

ages of Formosa is the extreme paucity of information which is available." If anything which I-the first white woman to go among certain of the tribal groups of

, of Oxford, who most kindly read the greater part

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, almost hairless, beast of the bovine species used in certain parts of Indonesia for ploughing the rice-paddies, and whose favourite recreation-when not harnessed to the plough-is to lie, or to stand, buried to its neck in muddy water; yet this beast is so called both in the Philippines

ransliteration is aggravated by the fact that the Chinese-Formosans and the Japanese, while using the same written characters, pronounce the names quite differently. In spelling the names of places, I have followed that system usually adopted in English book

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