‘I shall expect a new saddle horse, a suit of fine lace, and an infinite number of the most valuable Jewels.’

At the same time, island communities — especially in coastal areas, where the effect of population loss was often enormous — sometimes retaliated against blackbirding raids.

This was a hardship in as much as inquiry showed that even in vegetarian restaurants many courses used to contain eggs. This meant that unless I knew what was what, I had to go through the awkward process of ascertaining whether a particular course contained eggs or no, for many puddings and cakes were not free from them.

He confidently tends his crops and rears his family in Nantou County on Formosa's gardenlike west-central plain.