To probe the extensive "Aborigine area" of the time, he was willing to pay any price--even violating prohibitions on several occasions--to get to the traditional Aboriginal homelands in modern Pingtung and the Central Mountain Range, and becoming a rare phenomenon for the day--a "Taiwan hand."
而為了探索當時廣大的「番域」，他更是不惜任何代價，幾度違反禁令，進入現今的屏東及中部山區等原住民傳統居住地，成為當時少見的「台灣通」。