File:"Im Formosan"- A Formosan, c. 1652 (cropped).jpg

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English: This drawing, by German traveller and sometime VOC employee Caspar Schmalkalden, depicts a Formosan aborigine running. In his hands he holds what appear to be noisemakers, which the accompanying poem refers to as his "Clink and Clank."

The poem reads:

Wir lauffen in die Wett und traben gantze tagen Nach unser Klincker Klangh die wir in H nden tragen Wir leben von der Jagt, er jagt, wer jagen kan Und wenn wir schiessen fehl, so geh'n die Hunde dran.

The translation is as follows:

We run through the world, trot the whole day through Behind our Clink and Clank that we hold within our hands. We live from the hunt -- He who can, hunts. And when our arrows miss, the hounds run ahead.

Used by permission of the Gotha Research Library (Gotha Forschungsbibliotek) (finding aid: Chart. B 533, fo. 284).
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Source Gotha, Forschungsbibliothek, Chart. B 533, fo. 284.
Author Caspar Schmalkalden
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