But what attracted the first Chinese immigrants was not their exotic wood so much as prosaic crops ﹘ rice and sugar cane ﹘ and the commercial activities they generated. Who was the first Chinese person to set foot on the islands?
所以中國移民並非為檀香木，而是受兩種熟悉的莊稼﹘﹘稻米和蔗糖﹘﹘所吸引；另有一部分人則來此從事純粹的商業行為。