Yu Yonghe's travelogue notwithstanding, northern Taiwan was also home to at least some Han Chinese, for History of the Development of Taiwan notes: "Koxinga used to exile convicts to Keelung and Tanshui."
至於台北，並非郁永河說的不見漢人，「包括雞籠、淡水，原是明鄭時期流放罪人之地。」《台灣開拓史》一書記載了光華四射、摩肩接踵的現代台北的身世。