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Rh  with .” The custom of ing is universal. In the north of the at least, the dead are  in a sitting posture under the  on which they have expired. Petty s are extremely common, not only along the frontiers, but between the neighbouring s; and the s of the slain are carefully preserved as. In some districts the young men and boys in the -chambers, in order that they may be  with courage. Many of the that have had least intercourse with the  show a considerable amount of skill in the  of. The, for instance, of the of Ka-fri-ang in the south are described by Rev.W. Campbell as “ of , d with immense slabs of a  kind of , and fitted up within with accommodation for ing comfortably as well as for , and for storing up abundance of materials for personal and  use.”   and other an goods are in pretty general use; and the women, who make a fine native  from , introduce ed s from the foreign stuffs, so as to produce al devices. The of  is sometimes held by women. Inter between the and the natives is very common. The portion of the was till  divided into the districts of Komalan, Tam-sui, Chang-hua, Kia-i, Tai-wan, Feng-shan, of which Komalan or Kapsiulangting was the only one on the eastern side; but the districts of Komalan and Tam-sui have been abolished, and a department of North Formosa established with three dependent. A runs from Bangka in the north to Pangliavu in the south. Beginning at the north we find the following places of importance:—Kelung, the ancient Pe-Kiang, a in the neighbourhood of the ; Tam-sui, or properly Howei or Hobay, also a  with 100,000 inhabitants, on the  of the same, which is formed by  upwards of 2000  high and has a depth of 3 s and a  of 7 ; Twa-tu-tia, about 13 s up the Tam-sui  in a  district, and possessing a  of 20,000; Mengka, Bangka, or Banca, a little higher up the, one of the most flourishing  s in the north, with 30,000 inhabitants; Teukcham or Teuxham, a   at the  of the Tam-sui district, with a  of 40,000 inhabitants; Heong-san and Tiong-Kang, both near the ; Oulan and Suikang, both inland; Changhwa the capital of a district, and the second  in the , with a  of 60,000 or 80,000; Chip-Chip, a large  inhabited solely by ; Kagee, or Chin-la-san, and Ung-Kan-bay; Kok-si-Kong, with a small ; Taiwanfu, the capital of the , with 30,000 inhabitants (or, according to another statement, 100,000), a , and the remains of the   of ; Takao or Takow, also a , in 22° 37′N. , 120° 16′E. , to the south of ’s ; Pataou or Pitau, a few inland, the Feng-shan-hsien of ancient documents; and Tang-Kang, a  of 20,000 inhabitants. Besides these there are many places of several thousands of a, and the whole of the territory is dotted with s and s. The whole  is estimated to contain from one and a half to two million s, the smaller number being probably nearer the truth. The influence is rapidly spreading, and the  is more and more attracting the attention of foreigners.

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