The San Francisco call., 1896-08-01

troduce better horses in the military SER
vice. Our horses are small and unsuited
to heavy artillery. European horses will
be imported.
II visited the island of Formosa little
while ago. Everything is peaceful there
now. A great many Japanese are going
there for business and to settle. Very
few Japanese women have gone yet For
mosa is one-fourth the size of all Japa n.
Geographically it is divided into two
parts-eastern and western-a mountain
range forming the division line. In the
west there is population of 5000, 00C
Chinese.
SIN the east there are somewhere about
10000 Malays-savages, cannibals. The
popuiation is only estimated, for nothing
is known of the interior. There may be
very many more. The Malays were the
original inhabitants. The Chinese came
as intruders. Consequently there is q very
bitter feeling against the Chinese, and the
Malays cut their heads off whenever they
have an opportunity.
"They are wild, savage, warlike, ener-
getic people and practice cannibaIism,
their special delight being Chinese. To-
ward the Japanese they are very friendly.
We are treating them as we would ladies,
very courteously and automatically.
"When I went there, with an armed es-
cort of course, they hailed us as brothers
and begged of US to drive the Chinese off
the island. They subsist on sweet pota-
toes and the flesh of wild animals, par
ticularly deer, which are very plentiful.
'They hunt with the bow and arrows
and the spear and many of them have
A long time ago the Dutch tried to settle
on Formosa, but the natives drove them
away. These savages live in little settle
ments composed of rude huts and each
seems to have its chief or president.
"Camphor is the chief product of the
eastern part of the island. A few English
and German companies handle the busi-
ness, but all their operations are protected
by guards. The western part, where the
Chinese are, is very fertile.
"Agriculturally Formosa is divided into
three zones-the northern or tea country,
the central or rice and orange country,
and the southern or sugar-cane country.
1--WE care little for the rice country, as
we raise plenty of thyt at home. But we
shall develop the tea industry, with the
prospect of a great foreign trade. We
shall not disturb the Chinese, but perhaps
as the japanese come in they will grad
ually leave Well, perhaps the 10000 can
nibal Malays may consume the 5000, 900
Chinese. / wish they would. 1 would
like to see the Chinese away from there.
They are dirty people.
''At present we have three mixed bri-
gades of Japanese troops, about $4,000
men in Formosa, and 5000 gendarmes, or
armed police, besides 10000 officers and
civil service men.
1.-THE Government is building q system
of railroads and wagon-roads in Formosa.
The Chinese had few, but they were
badly built. A line is being built from
4 eelun, the principal seaport, to Taipei,
the capital and biggest city, thence to
Shinchiku, about forty miles.
"Our Government has divided the
island into three territorial districts,
a northern, central and southern, each
of which is a state with its separate corps
of officials"
Mr.. Fujiyama laughingly says that he
does not know whether his ancestors were
named after Japan's great volcanic noun
tain or whether the mountain was named
after them.
He wears upon the lapel of his coat
little button similar TO that of the Loyal
Legion in America. It has scarlet rim,
and upon its indented face are six scarlet
spokes upon field of white. The button
signifies that the wearer has been decor
ated by the Emperor with the "Order of
the Rising Sum-" Mr.. Fuiiyama will spend
q month in the United States.