Although the delegation left somewhat crestfallen after the court told them that, out of consideration for the barbarians, they would only need to pay tribute every eight years, what Nieuhoff recorded along the way became the most important source of information about China for Europe in the seventeenth century.
沒想到天朝上國體恤夷民「道里險阻，勞費可憫」，慷慨傳旨荷使此後「八年入貢一次即可」。使節團白忙一場，但尼霍夫一路的日記與速寫，卻成為十七世紀最重要的中國資訊來源。