In the early days of reportage literature in Taiwan, the best known work of the time in the genre, The Dark Settlement-- Ssumakussu, described aboriginal life deep in the mountains on the borders of Taoyuan and Hsinchu counties, away from electricity and the other trappings of modern life.
台灣報導文學初起，當時最知名的作品「黑暗部落﹘﹘司馬庫斯」就隱藏在桃、竹兩縣交界的山區。