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Similarly, the main reason van der Burch's successor, Paulus Traudenius, convened the first official landdag in 1641 was to introduce himself to his aboriginal subjects: "Today his excellency the governor Paulus Traudenius ... made his way to [the aboriginal village of] Saccam to hold a general rijksdag [synonym for landdag] with the natives of Formosa, in order to encourage them to do their duty and to make himself known to them as governor and director [of Taiwan]."
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