He found that the knowledge of some of the older people about the wider world was so limited to an awareness of China and its surrounding "tribes" that they took him to be a Sinkiang compatriot; elder children were fascinated while babies and infants yelled out in terror at first sight.
有些老人家只識中土四夷，不知天外有天，一逕把他當作「新疆同胞」照看。至於大孩子的好奇促狹，無論海峽兩岸，已是見多不怪；倒是襁褓小兒乍見老外、嚎哭不止的大驚失色，令人在尷尬之餘，就只有慨嘆「少見多怪」了。