During the eighteenth century Chinese immigrants continued to pour into the country, and soon Hakka and Fo-kienese villages sprang up all along the coast. On their arrival they were sent inland by the local authorities in search of suitable localities outside the territory already cleared by other pioneers. Large towns sprang up in course of time, like Tai-wan-fu with its 200,000 inhabitants, Ka-gi or Ka-i to the west of Mount Morrison, and Chang-hua a little north of lat. 24″, and, in the north, Teckcham, the local name for Hsin-chu, the populous town of Banka with 40,000 inhabitants, and Twa-tu-tia with 20,000 to 30,000.
How is it, then, that Flaubert was a somber impressionist avant la lettre, when the school of painters was remarkably cheerful with the exception of both Degas and Van Gogh?
When I realized that that wretched little tin can was all that stood between me and the world, his wife and his family, there was an acute palpitation around the heart, and a dry blottery feeling in the mouth.
