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The Office of Scientific & Technical Information (OSTI), is a
part of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) that houses research
and development results from projects funded by the DOE. The
information is generally an article, technical document, conference
paper or dissertation. This is one of those publications.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
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Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
First published in 1896 and based on extracts from diaries, notes
and reports, this work, edited by J. A. Macdonald, tells of the
nearly three decades that George Mackay (1844-1901) spent on the
island of Formosa (now Taiwan). In 1872 the Canadian Presbyterian
priest arrived in northern Taiwan and set up a new missionary
station. Within a month of his arrival he had made his first
convert, a Chinese named Giam Chheng Hoa. Mackay married a local
woman, with whom he had three children, and made numerous trips
around the island, founded a hospital and established a college. He
also gathered specimens of local fauna and flora that formed the
cornerstone of a museum. Mackay offers vivid descriptions of
Formosan geography, culture and animal life; his interpretation of
the syncretic 'heathenism' of Formosa as a 'dark damning nightmare'
is characteristic of the Western viewpoint of his time.
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