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

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

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.