One Japanese scholar who sailed with the vessel, despite lacking a command of spoken Chinese, succeeded in making many Chinese friends by brush and paper; he also noted down in a diary what he observed of astonishing, matchless China.
隨船而來的一名日本學者，雖然不能說中國話，但是藉著紙筆，他結交了不少中國朋友；憑著雙眼，更在日記中寫下令他驚訝、稱豔的中國。