As night gradually fell you would see the sky fill with stars. After daybreak you could see the Baiquan [' White Dog '] Islands off Fuzhou. The islands along the coast near Fuzhou are rocky, not like Taiwan which is all mounds of earth.
天亮以後，就可以看到福州海邊的白犬列島，福州沿海的島嶼都是石頭形成的，不像台灣，是土堆成的，… … 船進閩江之後，就會看見一塊大石頭，稱為『金剛腿』，過了幾個彎，又到了馬尾『羅星塔』… …。