English: Title: The cruise of the Marchesa to Kamschatka & New Guinea : with notices of Formosa, Liu-Kiu, and various islands of the Malay archipelago

Identifier: cruiseofmarchesa01guil Year: 1886 (1880s) Authors: Guillemard, F. H. H. (Francis Henry Hill), 1852-1933 Subjects: Marchesa (Schooner yacht); Natural history; Natural history Publisher: London : J. Murray Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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Text Appearing Before Image: 16 FORMOSA. [chap. "We paddled lazily down stream, glad to be protected from the sun by the large arched bamboo awning of the boat, and landed in the afternoon at Chui-teng-ka, a large Chinese town built along the river side, and surrounded by trees and quaintly-shaped low hills, which gave it a decidedly picturesque appearance. Here we

Text Appearing After Image: ON THE KEELUXG EIVEK. found a rather interesting temple; the gateway of which was formed by two large monolithic stone pillars fifteen feet in height, and admirably carved. On the right hand was represented a dragon in very high relief, ascending the pillar with a round fruit or ball in. his mouth, while, on the other side, the animal was descending, with the same object in his claw. Both execution and design were ex- ceedingly good, and must have cost a considerable amount of labour, fully two-thirds of the stone having been cut away in the carving. The town was tolerably clean, or at any rate appeared so after

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