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FORMOSA We spent more time in Formosa than any other place in the P ar East during this cruise. The name F ' ormosa means pretty in Portuguese, but the rains of Keelung dampened our appreciation of its natural beauty. Formosa is about 250 miles long and 90 miles wide. It is only 100 miles east of the Chinese mainland. Formosa, together with 70 smaller islands called the Pescadores, comprise almost the total area of Nationalist China. Formosa ' s original inhabitants resembled Polynesians and were head hunters. Their descendants still live primitively on the eastern half of the island, but many of their customs have been influenced by the the Chinese who have been on Formosa since the seventh century. By the early 1300 ' s, the Chinese were pretty well dug in on Taiwan, as they call it, and they no longer feared retaliation by the natives for their exploitation. Portuguese ships called at Formosa and the Dutch who at the time were spreading their influence over the southwest Pacific established a fort and a settlement there. F orty years after the Dutch arrived, they were driven from the island by the Manchus. The Chinese ruled Taiwan until they ceded it to Japan at the end of the Sino- Japanese war. During World War II, the Japan- ese used F ' ormosa as a springboard for their amphibious assaults against the Chinese mainland and the Philip- pines. At the insistence of the United States and Great Britain, Formosa was returned to China at the end of World War II. When the Chinese Civil War was resumed. Communist forces swept the country and Chiang Kai-shek moved his Nationalist gov- ernment to Formosa, establishing Taipei as his capital. While on Formosa, we stayed in Keelung, the principal port of the island, which lies 22 miles northeast of Taipei. It is the fifth largest city in Formosa with a population of 161,000, which seems to fluctuate with ships ' movements. Some people claim Keelung as the rainiest port in the world.
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Children all over ihe world like candy, cookies and ice cream. These youngsters were our guests, and they terrorized the Helena from stem to stern during their brief visit and gedunk party.
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