File:A Formosan, c. 1652.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 Händen tragen Wir leben von der Jagt, es 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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