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East-India Travelogue (1659-1668) - Readings from 21st Century Perspective

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Pescadores Island 漁翁島 ( "Fishermen's Island" in Portuguese) 天人菊 (Gaillardia pulchella) (Penghu county-flower) 17th Century Tainan. Siraya A Tale of Three Tribes in Dutch Formosa  (Chen Yao-Chang) . Top: Red-flower tree is  刺桐 (zaitun/z ayton ) ( Erythrina variegata)  Read    HERE .  Bottom (right-hand):  Deer Tree (lo-a) 鹿仔樹. Paper Mulberry tree. Read HERE .  Eine kurtze Ost-Indianische  Reiß-Beschreibung  ( Albrecht Herport) Reproduction of Original (page 195-482) Note -  Translations (German-Chinese) are not sentence by sentence nor page by page.  They appeared (to me) carefully re-arranged.  Page number used in this blogpost located in the original German script. Footnote number located in the Chinese translation. Dutch East India Company (VOC) ships 'food rations' in the said journey four pages in German original is one and half in Chinese.  Formosa/Tejoan (pp37-109) Footnote 42 Formosa (useful information on 'Por...