Lengshuikeng

This guide to Lengshuikeng, a warm sulfur pool in the hills above Taipei, opens with the story behind its ironic name and traces back to 1696, when a Chinese official named Yu Yonghe set out to find sulfur after gunpowder stores exploded in Fuzhou. You'll hear about his rough crossing of the strait, his arrival in the volcanic Beitou and Datun country, and what he learned from the Indigenous people already gathering sulfur there. Listen for how his account became one of the earliest written records of the island.