In fact, recent history records two cases of Micronesian islanders alighting on the shores of Taiwan: three boats with sixteen people landed in 1874, and one boat with six people in 1908.
近史記載，南太平洋各地土著曾多次漂流到台灣。最近的兩次是在一八七四年和一九○八年，各有十六位和六位麥克羅尼西亞人，乘著三艘和一艘帶邊架的獨木舟，漂流到基隆和宜蘭縣東港村的海邊。