A little while later, after news of the islands 'sugar-cane fields reached southern China, a sugar refiner named Wong Tze Chun took his equipment there in 1802, but seeing no prospects for a profit he returned home a year later.
稍後，當夏威夷盛產蔗糖的消息傳到中國南方之後，有位製糖師傅黃子春，於一八○二年帶了製糖工具抵達。不幸的是，他選擇較乾燥、甘蔗產量不豐的拉乃島定居；一年後，因覺無利可圖而打道回國。