Because of his guidance, Dr. Sun left his village at thirteen to go to Honolulu, and "for the first time saw the wonder of a steamboat, the boundlessness of the sea, and from this point on I had the desire to study the West and to explore the ends of the universe."
由於他的引導，中山先生在十三歲離開故鄉到檀香山，「始見輪船之奇，滄海之闊，自是有慕西學之心，窮天地之想。」