enough to me, until a great scholar present remembered some lines of Confucius which expressed in Chinese exactly the same idea. He quoted these lines in Japanese and at once produced the desired effect. I mention this incident only as a proof of the radical difference of the Chinese and Japanese languages and modes of expression from those of any European language. It seemed to me that Mr. Myoshi, who knew and spoke English very well indeed, took nearly twice as long to turn my speech into Japanese as I did to make it in English.
On April 2nd, which, though dull and sunless, was quite a hot day, I went to see a large tea plantation under Japanese Government control at Anpintin, an hour by rail south of Taihoku. They were making black tea for the English market, as well as Formosan oolong, which has quite a peculiar and distinct flavour. Rotary rolling machinery by Jackson and Davidson, as well as sirocco drying machines and sifters were in use, but the leaf is almost all grown by small Chinese planters and sold green to the factory, In the small area of the company’s tea where the soil is red and rather heavy, the plants were in rows, five feet apart, and the bushes three feet apart in the rows. The bushes were small and badly pruned in comparison with Indian plantations, but were already flushing and nearly ready to pick. As there is a full account of both the tea and camphor industries in Davidson’s work on Formosa, I need say no more on this rather technical subject here. On our last day in the island we visited the sulphur springs at Hokoto near Taipeh, where a number of small springs burst out of a barren hillside accompanied by strong jets of steam* The valley below is cultivated with pineapples, and contains a large plantation of young camphor trees* Here there were a number of white lilies in flower growing wild, many having six or seven flowers on a stem. On our last evening we gave a very successful dinner at the hotel to some of the Japanese who had been so friendly to us; the American and British Consuls were present, and we had a very pleasant evening.
On April 4th, we went by rail to Keelung, the principal port and naval station at the north end of the island, and embarked on a fine large Japanese mail steamer which goes once a week to Japan, The boat was well found, with excellent food in European style, though we were the only European passengers. When we got to sea we met a strong north-cast wind, with cold cloudy weather for two days. On the 7th we arrived at Moji, a large seaport and coaling station in the north-west end of Kiushu. Here we were met by Mr. Mochizuki, my old companion in 1904, who had been sent to show us something of the forests of Kiushu, which I did not then see. We went by rail about half an hour south through a broken hilly country, leaving the main line at Kashii; we then went three miles to Doi. No jinrikshas could be got, so we walked for about two hours through a pretty country cultivated with rape, beans and winter barley, to the foot of a mountain called Tashi-bani-yama, where there are the remains of what I believe to be virgin forest, now under Government protection. As it was five o’clock and too late to see this forest, we got leave to sleep in a farmhouse at the foot of the mountain. The owner, though quite unprepared to receive guests, made us very comfortable, gave us a very fair dinner and quite good beds. The day had been fine
