Note 24 — Chapter II
Reading edition
Curiously enough, this pack of starving dogs constituted my first impression of life in Formosa, teeming though the island is with richness of vegetable and animal life, and with all that makes for easy and comfortable living for both man and beast. At first the starvation and evident misery of these dogs puzzled me. I did not then fully understand—as later I was forced to do—the callousness and indifference of the great majority of both Chinese and Japanese to the sufferings of animals.