takow

Updated: July 14, 2026

And so when the kind friends at Swatow said, "Stay and work with us," he always answered, "I must first see Formosa." So, one day, he sailed away from the mainland toward the Beautiful Isle. He landed at Takow in the south of the island, just about Christmas-time.

Mary Esther Miller MacGregor - The Black-Bearded Barbarian : The life of George Leslie Mackay of Formosa