The Amsterdam poet Jan Vos described this famous traveller in the following words: Thus Nieuhoff is seen, who shows the religion, laws, costumes/and state of China by his learned pen. A laudable work, deserving immortality. He visited the Cape regularly and was murdered on a little island off Madagascar.
The Amsterdam poet Jan Vos described this famous traveller in the following words: Thus Nieuhoff is seen, who shows the religion, laws, costumes/and state of China by his learned pen. A laudable work, deserving immortality. He visited the Cape regularly and was murdered on a little island off Madagascar.
Size: 2510px × 3478px
Location:
Photo credit: © World History Archive / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: amsterdam, archival, archive, cape, china, costumes/, deserving, dutch, famous, historical, history, holland, immortality, island, jan, laudable, laws, learned, madagascar., murdered, netherlands, nieuhoff, pen, poet, regularly, religion, shows, state, traveller, visited, vos, words:, work
