After weeks of fruitless negotiations, Bollinger and his counion members went out on strike, demanding a pay boost.

In Chang-hua and Tainan the local gentry who managed the finances and supplies for the war effort had a more difficult task. Records indicate that they relied heavily on salt, likin, and customs duties, but also had to resort to more extraordinary means to gain revenue and provisions. The Chang-hua managers, for instance, sometimes confiscated the properties of wealthy inhabitants who had fled the scene.

The ambitious young student hobnobbed with the faculty at the prestigious college he hoped to attend.

The trapper is amazed and disturbed because he sees that this wild man has been freeing all the animals from his traps.