In Keelung, Formosa, customs officials noted Sailor Pien Ching-an mincing along in a most unseamanlike manner, stopped him, found carefully packed into his padded felt shoes 30 .
Into the woods, cluttered with heavy undergrowth and roofed with tall loblolly pines, moved a group headed by a lieutenant and a brace of ensigns wearing unseamanlike woodsman's .