Merian also made note of the help she received from the natives of Suriname, as well as slaves or servants that assisted her.
梅里安还记下了她从苏里南当地人那里得到的帮助,以及协助她的奴隶或仆人。
Perhaps one explanation for her mistakes is that she cut short her Suriname trip after getting sick, and completed the book at home in Amsterdam.
对于她的失误的一种解释可能是:生病后,她缩短了苏里南之旅,并在阿姆斯特丹的家中完成了这本书。
In 1699 she sailed with her daughter nearly 5,000 miles from the Netherlands to South America to study insects in the jungles of what is now known as Suriname.