In fact, the main reason they had come was thanks to Ming Li-kuo. Married to a Bunun, he has constantly gone about among the aboriginal villages during the past two decades recording and compiling and has long since been viewed as "one of our own."
這一次布農族人的領隊斯阿定小姐，正懷著第四個孩子，她身旁的老三老睜著一雙黑白分明的大眼睛看人。她透露說，長老以前也下山參加過政府舉辦的歌舞聯演，對都市不至於太陌生，「可是他們剛剛還叨念著要回去整理蕃茄和梅子呢。」