THE DUTCH IN FORMOSA, 1632荷蘭人在台灣 1632
This article presents a translated excerpt from the 1645 "Relation d’un voyage aux Indes orientales par un gentilhomme français," a rare primary source document written by an anonymous French soldier serving the Dutch East India Company (VOC). As one of only two known 17th-century French accounts of...
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