Excerpt from Formosa Under the Dutch: Described From Contemporary Records, With Explanatory Notes and a Bibliography of the Island
In order to bring such knowledge within reach, it was open either to use early records as the basis of an independent narrative; or, by means of simple translation, to place English readers themselves as near the sources of information as pos sible: which latter method is the one followed here, even although it has involved no small amount of prolixity and repetition.
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