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Sketches in Formosa: welcome by an old Chinese friend, 1890. Creator: Unknown.

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Sketches in Formosa: welcome by an old Chinese friend, 1890. 'We have published some of Mr. E. H. Grimani's sketches and notes of his sojourn at Takow, on the south-west shore of the island of Formosa, and of his excursion, with two friends, to Bankimsing, a native village almost beyond the pale of Chinese civilisation, on the verge of the central highlands, where tribes of savage mountaineers have recently asserted their independence by sanguinary inroads on the peaceable dwellers in the plains below...The long ride on horseback, after crossing the plains, where they were hospitably welcomed in Chinese villages, and passed merrily among the Pepuhuans, or civilised native peasantry, was attended with some difficulties...every savage tribe being on the alert to see what these foreigners meant by approaching their country without invitation or permission. We are glad to know that no great harm came of it'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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HRM25A57_197

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12,8Mo (1,6Mo) / 13,7cm x 23,3cm / 1620 x 2757 (300dpi)

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