For instance, when he read the history of how the Japanese tried with a mixture of cajoling and military suppression to overcome the "last unconquered savages," the Bunun of Wushe, or of how after Japanese massacres using poison gas and machine guns, the Atayal chief Monardao finallyled 200 of his tribespeople in a mass suicide at Mahebo Caves, the stories made a deep impression on him.
比如他讀到日人討伐當時的「最後未歸順番」布農族的歷史，日人如何的懷柔、制壓，並以毒瓦斯，機關槍屠殺部落；及霧社事件中，泰雅族頭目「莫那魯道」帶領兩百族人，最後集體自殺於「馬海僕岩窟」的記載，都令他印象深刻。