A late seventeenth century explorer records how he and seven companions, sleeping by day and traveling by night, passed by indigenous tribes, trekked over myriads of maintains and came at last of the shores of the Pacific.
十七世紀末，原有個雞籠通事賴科越山東來，記載中他「與七人為侶、晝伏夜行，從野番中越度萬山，竟達東面。東向太平洋……」言下頗有不可思議的味道。可惜這位開路前鋒並未在此安家落戶，據說反而招撫了二千番民，歸附阿里山番。開發較西部遲上百餘年