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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.

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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.