In these pictures they are not hunting on horseback, however, but aboard a warship--or rather jumping into the sea in panic. The scene is obviously a reference to the story of the expulsion of the "red-haired barbarians" from Taiwan by Koxinga, a Ming loyalist who besieged the Dutch on Taiwan when he was pushed from the mainland by the invading armies of the Manchu Ch'ing dynasty.
只是，這回沒有了騎馬打獵、小廝伺候的風光。畫中荷蘭人在戰船上倉皇落水的窘態，顯然與國姓爺趕走紅毛蕃的故事有關。