bidding mien. His head was ornamented by a crimson cincture, and he wore, besides, other gaudy articles, and was evidently the head of the party. As I learned later on, he was the brother of the chief of the tribe. His displeasure on discovering that the pig was already devoured was ill concealed, and his manner was correspondingly haughty and abrupt, till a happy thought occurred to me, and I lost no time in investing him with the Order of the Antimacassar, the only present I had at my disposal after having given the chief a pair of bathing drawers. Then I sent out and bought a dollar's worth of brown sugar; this I had made up into little bags, and presented each of the new-comers with a parcel, so that everyone was mollified, and all went merry as a marriage feast. Before taking my leave of the assembly, I told "Hawk-eye" to ask the chiefs whether they would allow me to visit them in their forests, and to this they nodded assent. I now considered that, thanks to the instrumentality of the pig and an antimacassar, I had accomplished the first step, and was in a position to take the second. Being unable, however, to remain at this particular time, I put off the proposed visit for the present, and returned to Tamsui. The 26th of February, early in the morning, found me once more in "Hawk-eye's" cottage preparing for the expedition. Four savages had been brought out the day before, two (the chief and another) to conduct me into the forest, and two to be retained as hostages. "Hawk-eye" and the savages having loaded their matchlocks and lighted their fuses, I buckled on my trusty steel (a savage knife, nineteen inches long), shouldered my gun, and off we started from the midst of an admiring throng. First went the chief, I came next, then "Hawk-eye," then my servant, and the other savage brought up the rear. The path at once began a steep ascent, winding along some very awkward places; at one spot the recent heavy rains had washed away one half, and I had once more to claw the rocks. At length, after a tough climb, we gained the top of the ridge, and there beheld mountains all round in every direction, those in front one dense mass of forest. The day was gloomy; heavy banks of dark clouds brooded over the ridges, forming a kind of pall, and the forest looked perfectly black. We were standing on the outskirts of civilisation, had passed the last patches of indigo, had seen the last sod of virgin soil that had been turned, and now we had to descend and enter the wilder ness. By degrees the path, which hitherto had been little to boast of, became small and beautifully less. At last jungle appeared— masses of reeds, grass, and other plants ten to fifteen feet high, and as dense as a wall. When approaching this place the chief blew a small reed whistle, and then raised a peculiar and melancholy wail, which resounded through the forest. The object of this was to let the other savages know who it was that was coming. The path got worse and worse; for me, with boots, it was a round of slipping, sliding, and scrambling, and nothing to lay hold of except the stalks of reeds, which cut like knives. Moreover, the chief walked at such a rate that it was as much as I could do to keep my eye upon him; it was a springy bounding step, with the body bent forward and eyes constantly on the trail. Presently the jungle ended, and after an unusually steep and tough descent, we came to the bottom-a vast deep mountain glen-where "Broken by stones and o'er a stony bed I now for the first time stood in the forest primeval-a sight never to be forgotten. Wherever the eye wandered, trees of various forms and sizes, all in full foliage, seemed banked up against the mountain sides. In some places, such was the angle of the escarpment that it was evidently a precipice; yet not a trace of rock was visible. Conspicuous before all, magnificent camphor-trees reared their shapely branches, clothed with glistening green leaves. I saw clean-stemmed liquidambars and a host of other trees unknown to me; and under their shadow, in dark interstices, rose, like feathery palms, tree-ferns twenty to thirty feet high, whilst close beside were dense clumps of smooth-bladed bananas. The ground below, reeking with steamy moisture, was one mass of luxuriant semitropical vegetation. Except for the sound of the mountain river, all was silent; no birds visible; no signs of life except some white and speckled butterflies dancing over the surface of the water in the dark glades. Here we sat down, and "Hawk-eye" changed his garb entirely, and donned complete savage costume-the toga, girdle, and skull-cap-so that but for the tattooing he was a savage. It was up this mountain river that our course now lay, and it had to be crossed and re-crossed repeatedly. At first I was carried over, but at last, like the rest, I simply walked through. Sometimes we passed under overhanging banks of dripping moss, then over huge boulders, and again, leaving the river, through tracks of jungle, which the savages slashed with their knives, whilst occasionally I would come upon some exquisite botanical treasure, which I had just time to snatch and throw into the basket. Sheets of ferrs (pellucid green Trichomanes and Hymenophyllum) encased the trunks of trees like wreaths of emerald lace, whilst far aloft depended orchidaceous and other epiphytic plants; in the forks of branches, huge shuttlecocks, six feet high, of Asplenium nidus, or the birds'-nest fern of the tropics; and reaching across from tree to tree were cords and cables of rattans and various other creepers hanging in long festoons. At last we came suddenly to the foot of a steep buttress, up which we had to pass in zigzag, holding on to the trees, which I noticed were now getting thinner; more light was visible, and something resembling signs of a path. We were now close to our goal, and the savages told us to sit down till the chief should go on ahead and give notice to the rest. As he left I observed that his peculiar call changed. Whilst waiting for his return I watched a flock of most exquisite birds (the Pericrocotus brevirostris, of Hindustan) playing on a tree close by; they resembled wagtails in form, but are much larger, the plumage of the male being vermilion, with black head, and that of the female, canary yellow and olive green. I should have shot specimens, but considered that my mere arrival would be a sufficient source of excitement without the firing of guns. Just before leaving the last trace of cultivation, a young Chinese, an inmate of "Hawk-eye's" own house, and personally known to both these savages, was allowed to join the expedition; but when we had reached this particular spot and were sitting down, he wandered slowly on ahead of his own accord and was suddenly missed by us. At once the savage who was remaining with us jumped up, ran after him, and called him back in haste, because, as "Hawk-eye" told me, if he should happen to come across any other of the savages who were not aware of our arrival, he would almost certainly be killed. This incident shows the wild and wary nature of this people. At length there was a distant call from the chief, and the other savage led me on. A little more winding about, and I emerged on the top of a narrow ridge, crowned by the savage huts. The two first on whom my eyes should fall were my old acquaintance and the beautiful Egyptian. After the long morning's race over stock and stone I was not sorry to sit down. The hut in which I found myself, and it was a fair sample of the rest, was of the rudest possible description. The doorway was so small that it was a task to get in; the walls were composed of the branches of trees stuck into the ground a few inches apart, the interstices being filled with bits of chopped wood; the roof was thatched with grass. Three sides were occupied by raised bamboo sleeping platforms, some fifteen inches above the ground; there were no windows. At one side was a slight depression in the ground, which served as a fireplace, logs of trees being laid over it, end to end, and constantly pushed farther in as they gradually consumed away. All the village crowded in-women, young girls, and children of all sizes; but the male savages, with the exception of those referred to, were all absent on a hunting expedition, having been gone several days. From the roof were suspended various requisites of the chase-bows, arrows, and deer skins-besides sundry articles of domestic use, all of the rudest kind Having had something to eat, I strolled out amongst the other huts, and everywhere was well received. What particularly struck me was the fearlessness of the women and girls and the frankness of the children, who were most interesting. They came close up to me, examined my clothes with their large dark eyes, pulled my whiskers, and were never tired of looking at my watch. They are bright, and I should say intelligent, and incomparably more interesting than Chinese children-so simple, natural, and unsophisticated. All smoke, from the youngest to the oldest of both sexes, and it was truly ludicrous to see tiny mites of certainly not three summers-stark naked-with pipes in their mouths; in which respect, however, they are surpassed by the natives of the Matabello Islands (Malay Archipelago), who smoke cigars before they are weaned. The women and girls carry their pipes of bamboo stuck in their hair, somewhat in the style of the liangpat'ou head-dress of the Pekingese ladies, and keep the tobacco-bags hung round their necks. They at once offered me a smoke. Some of them were playing upon a curious kind of jew's-harp, made out of a slip of bamboo with threads at each end, whilst one girl, of about sixteen, danced. The dance was neither a fandango nor a bolero, nor yet a minuet, but bore some resemblance to all three; it was so intensely grotesque that I laughed uncontrollably. No sooner had she finished than the girls came up to me and, offering me a jew's-harp, made signs to me to dance. The harp alone was a sufficient miles, with the thermometer 92° in the shade; I have topped the Wut'ai-shan, ten thousand feet; and I have tramped the sands and lava-fields of Hainan under a tropical sun, thirty-five miles in a day; but let no one talk of walking till he has been through the forests of Formosa with the savages. The I had been rather annoyed at the way in which the old chief persisted in going ahead, but I afterwards learned that he did this by way of precaution against surprise. choice of a different route for the return journey, also, had been made because the wary savages did not propose to make me familiar with the approach to their forest home. At about six P.M. we reached the cot mystery to me, but when the minuet was added, the tableau was complete; my audience threw themselves down and screamed with laughing. From this performance I passed to a scene of somewhat different character: a few yards along a path, a step to one side, and I stood before a scaffold of camphorbranches on which reposed a grinning row of human skulls, the heads of Chinese slain in raids. But the day wore on, and the preparations for journeying back were made. We returned by a different route, and if there was no mountain river to be forded there was something worse-the crossing of ravines and gullies on slimy trunks of fallen trees. Then, again, we wound through watercourses, where the vegetation was loaded with moisture, and the glen-a vast fernery-tage, after a day of great and varied interest; was dark through the interlacing of the trees above. We had gradually ascended so high that we were in the clouds, which made the forest doubly dark. The chief, as before, went first, and his wailing call once more echoed around. Presently the rest joined in it, and I was told that we were approaching a stockade of the savages, close by which we passed. At length we gained a ridge and changed our direction, plunging down steep and dark declivities. The scene was often highly interesting and romantic. Sometimes at a projecting buttress I would pause and look back at the line of savages winding single file round the precipices, and beguiling the way with a sweet and musical chant, which I was told was a sort of ditty addressed to lover or husband hunting far off in the forest. I have crossed Formosa thirty and as the poor creatures preferred taking their pig and samshu home with them, I consented, and after distributing a few presents, took my departure. The impression left on my mind was a mixed and rather sad one. I had been amongst a people whose days are numbered -a people who showed various kind and amiable traits of character, but whose natural temperament, even were they disposed to work, seems unfitted for the systematic toils of civilised nations; whose ignorance and simplicity permit them to barter away their noble forests for a mess of pottage; who are steeped in poverty and ignorance-the constant dupes of unscrupulous and mercenary neighbours; the victims of strong passions; without friends, without help, without sympathy-children of the present hour. NAME CHOOSING. THE motives at work in name-choosing that were spoken of in the former paper would account together, no doubt, for a very large majority of the names given to English children; the causes now to be considered are among those of less common operation. I. Aspirations of parents as to the characters and careers of their children exercise some influence on personal nomenclature. In primitive days when names had to be created, this influence was much more largely felt than it is now. Many designations whose meanings have nothing to do with their present use amongst us, embody the desires of primeval parents for their children. For the original David the paternal wish was that II. he should be beloved, and the name expresses the wish; the early Philips were set apart as horse lovers; the primal Franks were designed never, never, to be slaves. But the aspirations set forth in these and many other names of antiquity found for the most part a more direct expression than do the corresponding aspirations which disclose themselves in name choosing now. Perhaps the most common denominational shape in which English parents express the desires referred to, is that of hero names; not the gift, quality, or success desired, but the man who possesses or achieves it furnishing the appellation. Contemporary heroes are, of course, more likely than others to be drawn upon in this way for their names. It was, as has already been hinted, in the days of Wellington's greatness that Arthur began to be popular. During the Russian war Raglan and Arnaud became numbered among English Christian names; so did Garibaldi at the times of that hero's prominence. When the struggle was going on at Plevna, Osman was often given to our children; and Suleiman appeared as a British prænomen about the same time. Later still the appellations Garnet and sometimes Garnet Wolseley have commemorated in the registers the prowess of the living British general. But neither is the heroism of the past entirely forgotten in naming, for the writer has met with the registered appellations Alcibiades, Julius Caesar, Boadicea, William the Conqueror, Richard Coeur de Lion, Peter the Great, &c. The desired qualities may have been exhibited in the lives of religious characters, and here, perhaps, the past is more resorted to than the present. The following may all be found in English registers of recent years: Simon Peter, Joseph Arimathaa, Tabitha, Cyprian, Martin Luther, Melancthon, John Bunyan, Selwyn, and Morley Punshon. Luther has been a good deal used in England since the recent four-hundredth anniversary of the Reformer's birth. Politics also supply plenty of heroes, whose names are freely given to English children; but here the present once more asserts itself loudly over the past. Ledru Mazzini Kossuth forms a registered name combination, but it appeared many years ago. The Gladstones, the William Ewarts, the Beaconsfields figure of course among the rising generation. So also do the numerous Wilfrids (who often appear as Wilfreds), and the Wilfrid Lawsons of more explicit denominational association with temperance politics. There is a division of the class of names under consideration that is interesting from the tenderness and refinement of the ideas which it sometimes seems to express. The aspiration here assumes a poetical shape; some "thing of beauty" or nobleness, whose loveliness or other qualities are coveted for the child to be named, and perhaps traced by parental fondness in the features of its infantile person or character, is called upon to lend its title. The various flower- and gem-names belong to this division. Many of these are being used daily without reference to their meanings, on the repetitionprinciple already spoken of. Every Rhoda is a rose, every Margaret a pearl; but numerous parents who give these appellations to their children do not associate them with the fragrant blush and gleaming radiance which the words really commemorate. Nevertheless flower- and gem-names are evidently given from time to time with direct reference to their significations. The following floral and kindred appellations have occurred in modern registers, most of them having appeared quite recently:-Azalea, Blossom, Camelia, Carnation, Chrysanthemum, Convolvulus, Daisy, Evergreen, Flora, Hyacinth, Hyacinthe, Iris, Ivy, Jessamine, Laurestina (sic), Lavender, Lily, Maple, May, Mayblossom, Mignonette, Myrtle, Olive, Orange, Pansy, Posey, Primrose, Rose, Rosebud, Snowdrop, Vine, Violet, and Woodbine. The name of a single flower, it would seem, is not always enough to set forth the parental longings. A labourer named Carden, living near Tunbridge Wells, lately called his little girl Violet Camelia Daisy, as though he wanted for her at once the sweetness, the splendour, and the simplicity of the world of flowers. It was another labourer-one Preece, of St. George's, Southwark-who, at the end of 1883, made use of the name Posey above quoted, so denominating his little lassie as if wishing to endow or credit her with the varied lovelinesses of an entire nosegay. Gem-names are less to be met with than those just mentioned; but specimens, if rare, are not entirely wanting in the great mine of the national name-roll. The writer's notes disclose a Jewel to begin with, with Beryl, Garnet, Jacintha, Jasper, Pearl, Ruby, and Sardonyx to follow. Of these, however, Garnet has, perhaps, referred to the general more frequently than to the gem, and Jasper (which, indeed, owns but a doubtful connection with the stone at all) was formerly a good deal used, and consequently now often occurs merely by repetition. Both flowers and gems have sometimes lent appellations to the same children: Violet Pearl Willmott was registered at Royston in 1880, Ruby Rose Smith at Guildford in 1883. Somewhat allied to the flower- and gem-names appear to be such appellations as Angel, Cherubim, Cuckoo, Dove, Eden, Melody, and Star; the blessedness, glory, or sweetness so referred to being, it would seem, desired for the children by the parents bestowing these titles upon them One other pretty form of the aspirationname should be separately mentioned. It is that which follows the names of the ideal characters of romance. In the prosaic pages of register-books, the writer has lately met with such poetical beings as sweet Cinderella of the fairy tale, Shakespeare's sad Ophelia |