The journey north from Taitung to Kuanshan is enchanting. The narrow gauge diesel train winds between hillsides covered with pineapple and sugar plantations.[…]At Kuanshan Pastor Lu is in charge of the Bible School for Bunun and Ami girls.

The ground rose on each side like a wall, but hung with natural tapestry—the creeping plants which in the South take such graceful and wreathing forms in their foliage.

a bashful look

Hungry for fame and the approval of rare-animal collector Queen Victoria (Imelda Staunton), Darwin deceives the Captain and his crew into believing they can get enough booty to win the pirate competition by entering Polly in a science fair. So the pirates journey to London in cheerful, blinkered defiance of the Queen, a hotheaded schemer whose royal crest reads simply “I hate pirates.”