The supply ship brought six months 'worth of food, and the supply officers hoped that the two lighthouse keepers would continue to work at their jobs, but Huang Ching-jung, so thin that you could wrap your hands around his waist, demanded that the supply officers let him go back with the boat to Taiwan to recover.
這艘補給船送來了六個月的糧食，補給官希望兩人繼續堅守崗位，瘦弱得兩隻手掌可以握滿腰圍的黃清榮，要求補給官讓他隨船到台灣醫病，隨行的人員咸表反對。