“I’ll tell them you are immoral, that’s what I’ll tell them; if you don’t just go about where you can ride in rickshas, like other ladies,” wrathily exclaimed the Director, attempting to rise and make a dignified exit. Unfortunately, however, the Director happened to be fat, and happened not to be accustomed to sitting in a chair.[29] Also his sword had become entangled in the wicker-work arm of the chair, so that, when he rose, the chair rose with him. This slightly spoiled the effect of the dignified exit. It may have been due to the fact that it was necessary to extricate him from the chair, that, before leaving, he became sufficiently mollified to concede: “If you want exercise more than other ladies, you may play tennis-ball on the school-grounds.” FOOTNOTES: [11] Why the Japanese should restrict the term “foreigner” (_seiyō-jin_, or _ijin-san_, or _ketto-jin_, the last meaning literally “hairy barbarian”) to men and women of the white race, I do not know. A member of any other Asiatic race--liked or loathed--is not called a “foreigner.” [12] Mt. Morrison--called by the Japanese Niitaka-Yama--is the highest mountain in the Japanese Empire, exceeding by nearly a thousand feet the world-famous Mt. Fuji, in Japan proper. [13] That is, “as the crow flies.” In actually traversing the island, however, from northern to southern extremity, it is necessary, by the shortest route, to travel at least 350 miles. [14] It is said that at this time the Formosans valued iron so highly that when throwing a spear tipped with this metal, they always pulled it back, by means of a raw-hide line, about 100 feet long, one end of which was held in the hand, the other attached to the spear-haft. [15] Probably the harbour of Anping. [16] The recent change of view-point on the part of the Japanese regarding Koksinga throws an interesting side-light on the psychology of that race. Previous to 1895 the name of Koksinga was in Japan held up to universal execration. He had been a “villainous Chinese pirate; one who had behaved in Taiwan with the usual cruelty of his race” (i.e. the Chinese). Since 1895 when the Japanese came into control of Formosa, and, in turn, dispossessed the Chinese, it has been discovered “in old Japanese records” that Koksinga had a Japanese mother. Therefore he was Japanese--and a hero. Temples have recently been erected in honour of this “Japanese hero” by the Japanese, in several places in Formosa. To one who knows how strictly patrilineal the Japanese are--how little relationship through the line of the mother is usually considered--“_c’est à rire_”! [17] The name Formosa, as applied to the island, seems to have first become generally known in Europe through the book, _Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa_, by the so-called impostor, Psalmanazar, published in London in 1704. How much credence can be given to the statements of Psalmanazar remains still an open question.