The local inhabitants treated their guest from afar with special warmth, and as Blusse got to know them better, the old-timers began to tell him stories about the "red-haired barbarians" of the distant past.
有客自遠方來，當地居民份外親切相迎，包樂史每次都和他們通宵喝米酒、嚼檳榔、聊天講古，也開始零零星星地從老一輩口中聽來種種有關「紅毛番」的傳奇軼事。