1897 ✦ ──── 明治 30 年 the 30th year of Meiji Era
明治30年(1897年)伊能嘉矩奉命為準備蕃人教育設施事項南下出差,行經水社湖(現今日月潭)一帶調查水社、頭社、貓囒社、審轆社、埔社、眉社等化蕃資料。此為其實地調查過程中所留下之記錄資料。
In 1897 (the 30th year of the Meiji Era), Kanori Ino took a south-bound trip for preparing facilities for educating aboriginal ‘barbarians’. He traveled through Shui-she Lake (today’s Sun Moon Lake) and performed investigations to collect useful information on six aborigines’ tribes which included Shui-she, Tou-she, Mao-lan-she, Shen-lu-she, Pu-she, and Mei-she. This document is the record he left behind from that investigation field trip.