2Edwin J. van Kley, "News from China: Seventeenth Century European Notices of the Manchu Conquest," Journal of Modern His- tory XLV -3 (1973) : 561 -582.
3Hartmann Schedel's Liber chrdnicarum, Nurmberg, 1491. Reproduced in Anthony Grafton, New Worlds, Ancient Texts : The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery, with April Shelford and Nancy Siraisi (Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard Univer- sity Press, 1992)20.
4Hendrik Nieuhof, '" Dedication, " Her Gezantschap Der Nerlandtsche Oost-lndische Companie (Amsterdam: Jacob van Meurs, Boekverkooper en Plaatsnijder, 1665) 4.
5Vondel, "Dedication," lines 75 - 76.
6van derKley, p. 563.
7van der Goes,"D'Ystroom," (Amsterdam, Albert Magus, 1682)3A.
8Van der Goes, "D'Ystroom," Book Two, pp. 38 -39.
9John E. Wills, Jr. , Embassies and Illusions: Dutch and Por- tuguese Envoys to K'ang-hsi, 1666 - 1687.
10(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984), especially Chapter Two, "Pieter van Hoorn, 1666 - 1668 ," pp. 38 -71.
