In this isolated environment the Han people developed a close relationship with the Ami who made up most of the population of Kangko. Many public services were undertaken between them, such as road building, the maintenance and building of houses, defense, and joint hunting and fishing; but nothing was of greater influence than marriage.
在這個孤立的環境中，漢人和人多勢眾的港口阿美族人，產生了密切的關係，許多公共事務常互相合作，如築路、修建房屋、外禦、團體狩獵及捕魚等；而影響最大的莫過於婚姻。