Excerpt from The Call of the East: A Romance of Far Formosa N every port of the Orient the outposts of the I restless, aggressive West touch the lines of the impassive East. Consuls, military and naval of ficers, merchants, missionaries force the ideas and ideals of the West upon the reluctant East. Many of these representatives of Western civilization are true to the high standards of the nations and religions from which they come. Many others fall to the level, and below the level, of those they live among. This story is an attempt to picture this life Where the East meets the West, in one small port and for the one short period covered by the F ranco-chinese War of 1884-85. Of the characters. One, Dr. Mac Kay, is unhesitatingly called by his own name. Ser geant Gorman and one or two others of the subordi nate figures are drawn from life. The rest, including the principal actors, are purely imaginary. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.