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 PART I. 
 
 By Sheldon T. Viele. 
 
 •bonjer's pilgrims' progress. 
 
 HE morning of July 28, 1888, was bright, 
 sunny, and sparkling, in beautiful con- 
 trast with the rain and dampness of the 
 preceding twenty-four hours. 
 The good ship Amsterdam, in gala attire, decked 
 with flags, and with her cabins filled with flowers, 
 awaited the coming of the pilgrims.. These soon 
 began to arrive, accompanied by friends and rela- 
 tives to see them off, and the decks quickly filled 
 with the expectant voyagers. All were interested and 
 excited at the prospect. Most of them were strangers 
 to each other and to the ocean, but all felt a more 
 than common interest in the occasion, and a sense of 
 friendliness for their fellow passengers, growing out 
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 of the unusual circumstances attending the trip. Soon 
 came the hour for departure. The whistle and bells 
 drove all but the voyagers on shore, and promptly 
 at 9:30 the gang-plank was hauled in and the ship 
 left the wharf. 
 
 The sail down the bay was beautiful, and the mag- 
 nificent harbor of New- York never appeared to better 
 advantage than beneath the bright skies and in the 
 crisp atmosphere of the perfect summer day. All 
 were absorbed in the beauty of the scene until about 
 noon when the pilot was to depart. With a few 
 hurried words, hastily written in letters to be taken by 
 him as last messages to the friends left behind, he 
 swung over the side and our voyage was fairly begun. 
 
 Up to this time the opportunities for acquaintance 
 were few, but all at once began the interchange of 
 names, and thus was initiated the good comradeship 
 of the party which was so noticeable a feature of the 
 whole expedition. 
 
 The fia-st event after the departure of the pilot was 
 the sounding of the breakfast bell about 12 o'clock, 
 and the members of The Holland Society made a 
 hungry rush for the dining saloon. Confusion reigned 
 supreme for a few moments until the genial Yan 
 Siclen brought order out of chaos, and all were soon 
 assigned to the places that they were to occupy more 
 or less successfully for the next twelve days. The 
 tables were filled, every place taken, the novelty of 
 the situation was exciting, and everybody was happy 
 through the first meal. 
 
 Here was the first opportunity to call the roll of the 
 pilgrims, and it resulted as follows : 
 
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 MEMBERS OF THE HOLLAND SOCIETY, 
 
 VISITING HOLLAND, JULY, 1888. 
 
 Dr. John Van Duyn, and wife Syracuse, N. Y. 
 
 Peter V. Fort, and daughter Albany, N. Y. 
 
 Mrs. Delahanty, and grand-daughter 
 
 Miss Delahanty Albany, N Y. 
 
 Frank I. Vander Beek, and son 
 
 Frank I. Vander Beek, Jr Jersey City, N. J. 
 
 Jas. a. Van Voast Schenectady, N. Y. 
 
 Dr. Harman W. Veeder Schenectady, N. Y. 
 
 Isaac E. Ditmars . N. Y. City. 
 
 Robert A. Van Wyck N. Y. City. 
 
 Gr. Y. Vander Bogart Schenectady, N. Y. 
 
 Hon. Edw. Elsworth, Mayor of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and 
 daughter 
 
 Miss May Elsworth Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 
 
 Eugene Elsworth Irvington, N. Y. 
 
 Jas. H. Blauvelt, and son 
 
 Harry R. Blauvelt Nyack, N. Y. 
 
 Rev. J. Howard Suydajvi, D. D Jersey City, N. J. 
 
 John H. Voorhees "Washington, D. C. 
 
 Frank Hasbrouck, Treasurer of city of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 
 Dr. Chas. H. Voorhees, and wife . New Brunswick, N. J. 
 
 H. B. Hubbard, and son Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 Rev. J. Elmendorf, D. D., and wife N. Y. City. 
 
 Sheldon T. Viele Buflfalo, N. Y. 
 
 Menzo Van Voorhis Rochester, N. Y. 
 
 W. H. Vredenbergh, and son ...... Freehold, N. J. 
 
 Judah B. Voorhees, Deputy Surrogate, and wife, and 
 Miss Barkaloo, and 
 
 Mrs. Geran Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 Hon. L. L. Van Allen, and sister 
 
 Miss Agnes Van Allen N. Y. City. 
 
 Geo. "W. Van Siclen, Secretary of The Holland Societj^, 
 
 N. Y. City. 
 Theo. V. Van Heusen, and son 
 
 William Manning Van Heusen Albany, N. Y. 
 
 Chas. E. Lydecker N. Y. City. 
 
 John L. Swits Schenectady, N. Y 
 
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 Guests Accompanying Them. 
 
 H. B. Gates, and sister 
 
 Miss Gates South Orange, N. J. 
 
 Frank Peabson Jersey City, N, J. 
 
 Lee "W. Case Schenectady, N. Y. 
 
 Geo. H. Howard . Washington, D. C. 
 
 Alex. J. Thomson Schenectady, N. Y. 
 
 Lehman Israels, 
 
 Special Correspondent of the " N. Y. Herald." 
 
 . As soon as this breakfast was over all began to talk 
 genealogy, as the most common ground for acquaint- 
 ance on this peculiar trip. 
 
 It may be remarked in passing that for the next 
 three days, whenever the party were not otherwise 
 occupied, they all talked genealogy. Each had an 
 intense interest in the particulars relating to his own 
 family, with a somewhat languid concern for the 
 families of the others. 
 
 The afternoon was bright, the sea was calm 
 and smooth; everyone thought nothing could be 
 pleasanter than a sea voyage. About 5 o'clock came 
 the welcome sound of the dinner-bell. Again all the 
 seats were filled, all were happy. Soon, however, 
 began to be felt the long roll of the ocean, and one 
 by one the pilgrims left the table and sought seclu- 
 sion, until only about one-half of the number 
 remained at the conclusion of the first dinner. 
 
 The first night at sea has been so often described, 
 and is so familiar to all from the vivid sketches of 
 more experienced travelers, that it is hardly worth 
 while to attempt to portray the emotions that filled 
 the breasts of our pilgrims as the night wore on. 
 
 The morning of Sunday was cloudy and cold, and 
 the sea rather rough. Most of the pilgrims contrasted 
 the glories of the previous morning with the dis- 
 
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 comforts of this first Sunday, and found the reverse 
 side of the picture their imaginations had presented 
 of the beauties of a sea voyage. There was no thought 
 of any attempt to hold any religious exercises. We 
 however struck the Grulf Stream in the evening, and 
 the weather became warmer and the sea smoother. 
 
 Monday, July 30, was clear and much warmer, 
 the water smooth. As soon as all who were able had 
 finished their morning coffee the first edict of the 
 voyage was promulgated. We were directed to pre- 
 pare, forthwith, and hand to Mr. Israels, the versatile 
 special correspondent of the " Herald," who accom- 
 panied us, a succinct account of our Dutch descent ; 
 and we were particularly instructed to insert therein 
 any romantic incidents or legends that occurred in 
 our family traditions. " But," said Van, " suppose we 
 have n't any." "Then," said the autocrat, "invent 
 some. If you are not sure of the proper name of 
 your great-grandfather give him a good sounding 
 one, and be sure to get in the romance. The en- 
 terprise of the great American newspaper must be 
 rewarded." 
 
 Accordingly all went to work, and at intervals " our 
 special correspondent," in whom wq took much pride, 
 was presented with our effusions. With these he 
 retired to the recesses of his special stateroom, on the 
 main deck, where secure from interruption he pre- 
 pared several huge packages. These we saw mailed 
 on our arrival, but their contents we were not to 
 ascertain for many days after. Nothing else of 
 interest occurred during the day, except that we 
 passed a French steamboat, about 5 p. m., bound for 
 New -York. This was the only steamship we passed 
 on the voyage, and Yan observed that we probably 
 
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 would not have passed her if she had been going the 
 other way. 
 
 Tuesday, July 31, was clear, warm, and beauti- 
 ful all day. Those of the pilgrims whose descent 
 from the beggars of the sea was best proved by their 
 immunity from seasickness thoroughly enjoyed the 
 day. The others, who heretofore had been struggling 
 through all the miseries of their situation, now began 
 to revive and appear on deck, to think that life was 
 worth living, and to manifest some interest in what 
 was going on. The evening will long remain vividly 
 impressed on the memories of all who were on deck 
 by the beautiful display of the starry sky, and one 
 good dominie was sufficiently recovered from his ills 
 to walk the deck, gaze upon the scene with emotion, 
 and softly murmur to himself : " The heavens declare 
 the glory of God, and the firmament showeth his 
 handiwork." 
 
 Wednesday, August 1, gave us a clear morning 
 and a quiet sea. All had by this time recovered 
 their equilibrium, all were acquainted, all had become 
 accustomed to the routine of the existence, and as the 
 subject of genealogy had become worn out every- 
 body began to thj^rst for new excitement. So, with 
 that originality of idea that always strikes a ship's 
 company about this time on a voyage, a mock trial 
 was arranged of which Van Siclen was the victim, 
 and this served to pass away the morning. The 
 pictures taken by the pictoriographer of the expedi- 
 tion will give a more vivid idea of this amusement 
 than can any words of the historian. This day was 
 also signalized by the formation of the " Quartette"; 
 an organization which added greatly to the pleasure 
 and profit of every occasion when the pilgrims came 
 
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 together afterwards during the voyage. The quar- 
 tette was composed of Dr. Blmendorf, Mr. Van 
 Siclen, and Mr. Lydecker of the Society, and Mr. 
 Leopold Von Lindau, a fellow voyager, and a most 
 agreeable gentleman and charming musician. 
 
 Thursday, August 2, was only marked in the 
 morning by the first concert of the quartette, which 
 was received with great applause. In the evening 
 after dinner the great American spirit innate in all 
 Anglo-Saxon blood asserted itself. After being re- 
 pressed by stress of circumstance for nearly a week, 
 it finally broke out with force and energy. A public 
 meeting was held with all due form and ceremony, 
 and various parliamentary proceedings were gone 
 through with, with great zest and pleasui*e. At this 
 meeting Dr. Suydam and Mr. Viele were appointed 
 historians of the expedition. Dr. Van Duyn was ap- 
 pointed pictoriographer, and Mr. Eobert A. Van Wyck 
 was elected to fill the difficult and onerous position 
 of marshal for the rest of the voyage. An assess- 
 ment of $3 was also laid upon each member for the 
 purpose of procuring funds for the pictoriographer 
 to obtain a collection of photographs for the archives 
 of the Society. This meeting was the result of a dis- 
 cussion that had been going on for the preceding two 
 days among the various groups on the deck and in 
 the smoke-room. It was felt by all that in some 
 way an expression should be made of the fact that 
 this was only a jaunt for pleasure and sentiment, and 
 that there was no " business " in any way to be asso- 
 ciated with it, either in our minds or in the minds of 
 those with whom we might come in contact in Hol- 
 land ; that it was a " sentimental journey" and not a 
 business venture. This was the fundamental spirit 
 
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 of the expedition, unanimously concurred in, and 
 every occasion was taken afterwards to emphasize 
 this in every way. Incident to this feeling, and as a 
 sort of side issue, came up the question of any attempt 
 on our part to reciprocate at this time any hospitali- 
 ties that might be shown us. After a somewhat 
 heated discussion, which was carried on with true par- 
 liamentary vigor, the question of the dinner was satis- 
 factorily settled by a resolution which was passed, 
 that " it is inexpedient on this trip to give a dinner 
 in Holland." The rest of the evening was passed 
 most pleasantly in listening to a concert from the 
 quartette, and to the uproar of college glees sung with 
 great spirit by the improvised choir of the Society, 
 which now first put in its appearance as an auxihary 
 to the quartette. It had been found that there were 
 representatives in the company from many of the lead- 
 ing colleges in the country, and that they all had some 
 slight idea of tune and an abundant capacity for noise ; 
 so the chou' became also an established institution. 
 
 Friday, August 3, was rainy and unpleasant; 
 there was little to occupy the minds of most of the 
 members, and so the spirit of mischief entered into 
 the brains of the chou-. A number of them put theu- 
 heads together and worked out a little sm-prise for 
 the evening's amusement. The informal meeting, 
 after dinner, of the Society had now become an insti- 
 tution, and so, after the quartette had given us their 
 music with great pleasure, the choir produced their 
 first effusion, which was received with much more 
 enthusiasm than its merits warranted. It is here 
 given as the first original chant of the expedition, 
 and to mark the fii'st steps of our progi-ess in the 
 poetical line. It was " The Son of a Van," and ran 
 about as follows : 
 
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 THE SON OF A VAN. 
 
 (Air : " Son of a Gambolier.") 
 WRITTEN FOR THE CLUB BY MESSRS. VAN HEUSEN AND VIELE. 
 
 We came from Jersey City, 
 
 For Rotterdam we steer, 
 And ancient Neptune's drunken reel 
 
 Made some of us feel queer ; 
 But now we're getting better 
 
 And courage Dutch display 
 As in our corporations big 
 
 We jam eight meals a day. 
 
 Cho. — I 'm a Van of a Van, of a Van, of a Van, 
 
 Of a Van of a way back line, 
 Like every honest burgher 
 
 I 'd rather gin than wine ; 
 And Edam cheese and Heinneker bier, 
 
 I bed you dot vas fine ; 
 I 'm a Van of a Van, of a Van, of a Van, 
 
 Of a Van of a way back Une. 
 
 Our gallant Secretary, 
 
 His whiskers blow about. 
 And daily to our vision clear 
 
 He 's growing wondrous stout. 
 And our serio-comic tenor. 
 
 One Elmendorf, D. D., 
 Just opes his throat and a silvery note 
 
 Floats o'er the deep blue sea. 
 
 Now Gr. Y. Van, the tired man. 
 
 Again re-tired feels, 
 As the Mayor of Poughkeepsie 
 
 Pulls wires from his heels ; 
 And Jim Van Voast eats eggs on toast, 
 
 And frozen coffee drinks ; 
 But Harman Veeder saves his Case 
 
 And with the purser winks. 
 
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 Now Doc. Van Duyn, he pulls the twine, 
 
 Drops a nickle in the slot, 
 And photographs the fleeting grin 
 
 Instanter — on the spot ; 
 Now Swits, the " Marvel-to-himself ," 
 
 Can keep his dinner down, 
 But Thomson from mock-trials runs, 
 
 His troubles for to drown. 
 
 There 's Fort who hates his dinner, 
 
 And our marshal who wonH drink, 
 While Hasbrouck and Van Allen 
 
 Of naught but girlies think ; 
 While Voorhees, John, J. M., and C. 
 
 Frisk happily about. 
 And with their coy voluptuous gaze 
 
 They cut the mashers out. 
 
 It is here appropriate to say something about the ship. 
 Certainly if our experiences were in any way a sample 
 of the voyages of the Netherlands American Line this 
 Company can safely be recommended to the traveling 
 public. The ship was commodious and steady. The 
 officers were obliging and polite, and at the same time 
 thoroughly attentive to their duty in every way. The 
 discipline was good and every possible attention was 
 paid to the safety of the ship. This seemed to be the 
 first essential rather than the rapidity of the voyage, 
 and it is a characteristic that is calculated to inspire 
 confidence. The fittings of the ship were new, clean, 
 and neat. The ladies' room on the upper deck was very 
 handsome, with its Dutch tile ; while the smoke-room 
 was fully appreciated both for its comfort and its 
 quaint panels illustrating Dutch life and character. 
 We all had plenty of room, which is not often the case 
 on the larger lines. The table was excellent, and the 
 service good. The meals were served in courses, and 
 were abundant in variety and quantity. A sample 
 dinner in the middle of the voyage is here given: 
 
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 MENU. 
 S. S. Amsterdam, 5th August, 1888. 
 
 DiKNER. 
 
 Soup Royale. 
 
 Petit pates de veau. 
 
 Roast beef, spinach. 
 
 Calf's head, sauce HoUandaise. 
 
 Roast ham, green peas. 
 
 Roast pigeons, stewed pears. 
 
 Pastry. 
 
 Fruits. Coffee. 
 
 Saturday, August 4, was cloudy and damp, and 
 at dinner we had our first experience of the most 
 dismal feature of ocean travel, the fog whistle. This 
 was then heard for the first time and took away much 
 of the pleasure of the meal. However, after dinner 
 the choir assembled and did their best to cheer the 
 spirits of the passengers, and then was heard for the 
 first time the second effusion. This was by Mr. 
 Charles E. Lydecker, and was the "Pilgrimage to 
 Holland, July, 1888." 
 
 THE PILGRIMAGE TO HOLLAND. 
 
 (Air : " Oranje boven al.") 
 
 Across the bounding dark blue sea 
 
 Goes forth our Holland Society 
 On a rollicking, novel kind of a spree 
 
 To the ancestral home ; 
 To land of dykes and dunes and mills, 
 
 To land of pure Genever stiUs, 
 To land of resolute strong Dutch wills. 
 
 We come, we come, we come. 
 
 Cho. — To land of dykes and dunes and mills, etc. 
 
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 "We have Vans, and Hoos, and Hees, and Huys, 
 
 En Dorfs, en Dams, en Duyns, En Lys, 
 En Veeders, Vieles, Voasts and Forts, 
 
 And various other sorts ; 
 We have Beeks and Bogarts, Swits and Velts, 
 
 Hasbroucks, and Hubbards, and eke Van Pelts, 
 And Waerths and Loos and Spaders (not Celts) 
 
 To storm the old Dutch ports. — Chorus. 
 
 Met metworst, eien en aspersie 
 
 Snij boonen, erwten, en olie 
 Eendvogel, komkommer, spinazie, 
 
 "We get there all the same : 
 Tuinbouje, ossenvleesch, Schnapps, Schiedam, 
 
 Aardappelen, Lamsbout, "Visch, Edam, 
 Frambozen, Beyeheville, Amsterdam, 
 
 We get there all the same. — Chorus. 
 
 When dark the sky, and waves run high, 
 
 And spray with sting blinds every eye, 
 We ever try to wet our dry 
 
 Below the cabin stair ; 
 For home and loved ones left behind. 
 
 The toast comes ever to the mind, 
 And to ourselves we must be kind, 
 
 And all the same get there. — Chorus. 
 
 This was received with such enthusiasm that the fog 
 arose about 9 p. m. and everybody went to bed happy. 
 
 Sunday, August 5, found the weather still cloudy 
 and misty, but the sea was calm, and the entire party 
 felt the appropriateness of celebrating divine service. 
 Service was accordingly held at 10 a. m. and was a 
 very impressive occasion, led with good taste and 
 effectiveness by Dr. Suydam and Dr. Elmendorf. 
 The sermon preached on that occasion by Dr. Elmen- 
 dorf was so striking and so appropriate, that many 
 of the hearers asked that it be preserved in the 
 records of the expedition. It is accordingly here- 
 with inserted with great satisfaction and pleasure 
 by the historian. 
 
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 PRE-DESTINATION NOT FATALISM. 
 
 A sermon preached in the saloon of the steamer Amster- 
 dam, Sahhath, August 5, 1888, on the excursion of 
 The Holland Society of New-York to Holland, hy 
 Bev. J. Elmendorf D. D. 
 
 ^duf BCixb io t^e Centurion an^ io i^ ^ofbiete, (grcepf 
 t^eee a^t^t in i^t e^ip tt cannot fie saDeb. 
 
 PAUL the prisoner had become the acknowledged 
 master of the situation. His warning, — " sirs, 
 I perceive that this voyage will be with injury and 
 much damage, not only of the lading and ship, but 
 also of our lives," — with which he endeavored to pre- 
 vent the officers of the ship from leaving their 
 anchorage at Crete, in the face of equinoctial storms, 
 had doubtless been remembered with bitter regret, 
 because it was unheeded, and with growing convic- 
 tion of his superior wisdom. "When, therefore, he 
 stood forth and declared to his despairing companions, 
 " I exhort you to be of good cheer, for there shall be 
 no loss of any man's life among you, but of the ship," 
 and then gave the words of the angel of God to him 
 as the ground of his promise, we may be sure they 
 were all ready to receive his communication with 
 unspeakable gratitude, and to regard him as their 
 great deliverer. 
 
 Their awakened confidence and gratitude were not 
 to be accepted as a tribute to himself, but were to be 
 used in effecting their escape. God would not deliver 
 them by a miracle, but by their most careful and 
 energetic employment of the means at hand. 
 
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 Two instances of Paul's asserted authority are 
 given in the narrative. When by soundings the 
 sailors found that the vessel was driving toward a 
 rocky coast, knowing that the crisis of their peril was 
 near, they selfishly determined to take their chances 
 of escape in the ship's boat and leave their compan- 
 ions to their fate. The pretext by which they tried 
 to do this was in an attempt to cast anchors out of 
 the fore ship. But the alertness of Paul detected their 
 scheme, and his prompt words to the centurion and 
 soldiers were: "Except these abide in the ship, ye 
 cannot be saved." Help for their deliverance would 
 be needed, which only these experienced sailors could 
 render, and if this was not secured, themselves would 
 yet be lost. No one doubted his word now; so at 
 once the soldiers cut the ropes of the boat and let her 
 fall into the sea. 
 
 Then another want was more vigor and endur- 
 ance than their long toil and fast had left them, for 
 the hardships yet before them ; and so, with reviving 
 and inspiriting cheerfulness, they must take food. 
 This they did from the force of Paul's advice and 
 example. 
 
 These two recorded facts prove Paul's careful 
 regard for and attention to the natural conditions of 
 escape from their encompassing dangers. 
 
 But this important question quite certainly arises 
 in every thoughtful mind : How could one who had 
 made the unqualified declaration by divine authority, 
 "There shall be no loss of any man's life among you," 
 afterward consistently assert, " Except these abide in 
 the ship ye cannot be saved " ? 
 
 He could do this, my friends, through being an 
 intelligent predestinarian instead of a fatalist. 
 
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 This difference, which we really need clearly to see 
 and remember, Paul radiantly exemplified through 
 all his Christian career. 
 
 While other inspired authors most clearly and 
 resistlessly declare the doctrine of God's decrees, it is 
 in the writings of Paul that the most numerous and 
 most significant references to it are found. He is pre- 
 eminently the establisher and expounder of the truth 
 of divine foreordination. In the IXth of Eomans he 
 fully states the doctrine and answers objections to it 
 until he reaches the sovereign will of God as the final 
 and sufficient reason for his decrees. " Nay, but, O 
 man, who art thou that disputest with God ? " 
 
 In another place he gives this concise and comfort- 
 ing view of the relations of believers to God's provi- 
 dence and purpose of grace : " We know that all things 
 work together for good to them who are the called 
 according to his purpose. For whom he did fore- 
 know he also did predestinate to be conformed to the 
 image of his Son, that he might be the first-born 
 among many brethren. Moreover, whom he did pre- 
 destinate them he also called : and whom he caUed 
 them he also justified : and whom he justified them 
 he also glorified." 
 
 In writing to the Ephesians he accounts for their 
 great spiritual blessing in this way : " According as 
 the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ hath chosen us 
 in him, before the foundation of the world, that we 
 should be holy and without blame before him in love, 
 having predestinated us unto the adoption of children 
 by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good 
 pleasure of his will." 
 
 In his letters to the Colossians, to Timothy, and to 
 Titus, he speaks again and again of the " elect." It 
 
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 is abundantly manifest that this truth is fundamental 
 in his convictions, and that it could hardly pervade 
 his thoughts more thoroughly if the sublime words 
 of the Lord by Isaiah were ever uppermost in his 
 mind : " Remember the former things of old, for I am 
 Grod, and there is none else ; I am Grod, and there is 
 none like me. 
 
 " Declaring the end from the beginning, and from 
 ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying. 
 My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasui-e." 
 
 But while the proof abounds in all Paul's writings 
 that his belief in the purposes of God and his reli- 
 ance upon His providence were in him forces of tire- 
 less energy and sources of exhaustless strength and 
 consolation, we look in vain for his slightest approach 
 to presumptuousness in either secular or spiritual 
 matters. His conviction was as clear and deep and 
 constant that the means were divinely appointed, as 
 that the end was certain; and that in all human ex- 
 perience the use of the means was indispensable to the 
 securing of the end. 
 
 We find among others this striking instance of his 
 constraining sense of responsibility in accomplishing 
 an event which Grod had just told him must occur. 
 
 In one of the violent disturbances between the 
 Sadducees and Pharisees in Jerusalem over Paul's 
 preaching, the chief captain, fearing they would pull 
 him in pieces, commanded the soldiers to rescue and 
 bring him into the castle. In the following night, 
 " The Lord stood by him and said. Be of good cheer, 
 Paul : for as thou hast testified of me in Jerusalem, 
 so must thou hear witness also at Borne.'" 
 
 On the very next morning Paul learned through 
 his nephew that forty Jews had entered into a con- 
 
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 spiracy to kill Mm, and had sworn not to eat or drink 
 until they had done this. How natural would have 
 been the answer — Oh, Grod will take care of this. He 
 has just told me that I must witness for him in 
 Eome, and he will see that I get there. Did he do 
 this ? No, indeed. He immediately sent the young 
 man by a centurion to the chief captain with his 
 statement. And by means of the information thus 
 given his destruction was prevented and his safety 
 secured. 
 
 Now why did not the apostle quietly and without 
 effort leave the matter to his Almighty Lord, from 
 whose mouth he had the fullest assurance that he 
 should see Eome? Because he was not a fatalist; 
 because he did not believe only halfoi the doctrine 
 of the divine decrees. He knew, as we know, and as 
 another has concisely said, " Grod makes use of the 
 prudence with which he has endowed man, as an agent 
 in the very providence" that befriends him. Paul 
 knew, as we all ought to, " that to neglect the natural 
 means of safety with which Grod provides us is to 
 tempt and dishonor him, and induce him in judg- 
 ment to employ those means against us which in his 
 mercy he had designed for our comfort and salva- 
 tion." So he at once used his best wisdom and the 
 means at hand to save his own life. 
 
 In all his religious course, also, the same broad, 
 practical consistency marks his thoughts, words, and 
 acts. 
 
 While referring his conversion and Christian hope 
 wholly to the sovereign grace and electing love of 
 Grod, and cherishing unshaken confidence that "He 
 who had begun a good work in him would finish it 
 until the day of Jesus Christ," yet he gave the most 
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 earnest "diligence to make his calling and election 
 sureJ^ He was stimulated to the most energetic and 
 best adapted religious efforts, as if by a constantly 
 apprehended possibility that he might yet lose the 
 prize in the Christian race, fail of reaching the victor's 
 crown in the Christian warfare, or fall short of the 
 final plaudit of his Lord. His own intense words 
 were, "I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so 
 fight I, not as one that beateth the air : But I keep 
 under my body, and bring it into subjection : lest that 
 by any means, when I have preached to others, I 
 myself should be a castaway." 
 
 In the discharge of every duty, in every place, at 
 every time, in every relation, Paul strove as if there 
 were no decree, all the while believing and feeling that 
 his striving would be futile, except as it harmon- 
 ized with and accomplished the divine purpose. Or 
 better, he strove as one who knew that his striving 
 was as essentially a part of the decree as was the end 
 it was to effect. 
 
 The critical worldly reason sees only contradiction 
 in the mental state of one who trusts God implicitly 
 to do something, and yet feels that it will not be 
 done unless he does it himself. Is not the reconcilia- 
 tion found in the view that Grod makes the man his 
 voluntary instrument in doing what he will have done ? 
 
 Paul brings this out with ever enduring sublimity 
 and sufficiency in his appeal to the Philippian Chris- 
 tians: "Wherefore, my beloved, work out your own 
 salvation with fear and trembling. For it is Grod 
 which worketh in you, both to will and to do of his 
 good pleasure." 
 
 This was Paul's mind as he stood forth on the 
 drifting wreck before that panic-stricken, despairing 
 
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 company. His words were : " There stood by me this 
 night the angel of Grod, whose I am and whom I serve, 
 saying, Fear not, Paul ; thou must be brought before 
 Caesar: and lo, Grod hath given thee all them that 
 sail with thee. Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer : for 
 I believe Grod, that it shall be even as it was told me." 
 
 But, as he accepted the providential information 
 that forty Jews had conspired to kill him as God's 
 warning that he must do what he could to thwart 
 their murderous scheme, so now, he accepted Grod's 
 cheering purpose and promise as a reason for taking 
 new and confident courage, and making their best 
 efforts to escape the threatening destruction. He did 
 not expect God to do for them what he had given 
 them the power and encouragement to do for them- 
 selves. 
 
 So, when the only competent and appointed work- 
 ers were about to desert them, he said : " Except these 
 abide in the ship, ye cannot be saved." 
 
 There was much to be done, which only these 
 experienced sailors could do. The ship was to be 
 farther lightened; the anchors must be taken up; 
 the rudder bands must be loosed ; the mainsail must 
 be hoisted up to the wind ; aU that skillful seaman- 
 ship could dictate and effect must be done, until the 
 vessel should strike the shore and go in pieces, as it 
 had been foretold she should. Then, when all this 
 had been done, as the bow grounded immovably, and 
 the hinder part of the ship was broken with the vio- 
 lence of the waves, some by swimming and some on 
 fragments of the wreck reached the land, and all, 
 according to the promise, were saved. 
 
 All this working was a clear discharge of duty, 
 because it was according to the dictates of sober 
 
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 reason and the promptings of practical common 
 sense. How unreasonable and wicked, in the light 
 of Paul's example, would have been the advice of a 
 fatalist ; i. e., one who holds that all things take place 
 by necessity, irrespective of means. His counsel, 
 under the words of the angel of Grod, must have 
 been, " Do nothing, but wait and see what Grod will 
 do for our deliverance." When he saw one in the 
 water striking out for the shore, his command must 
 have been, " Stop exhausting yourself by swimming, 
 Grod is pledged to bring us to the land ! " And to 
 those frantically clinging to their supports he must 
 have shouted, "Don't weary and bruise yourselves in 
 holding on to your boards and beams, but cling to 
 the divine promise: there shall be no loss of any 
 man's life among you." 
 
 Consistent fatalism must forbid or neglect the use 
 of means for the accomplishment of any end, whether 
 of recognized slight or great importance. Holding 
 the view that these ends are absolutely predetermined, 
 and that nothing done or left undone can change 
 them, the employment or the omission to employ 
 agencies amounts to the same thing. Therefore, the 
 fatalist who purposes and tries to do anything is 
 contradicting his faith. If he would like to be in a 
 distant place, at a particular time, it is entirely use- 
 less for him to look after the means of accomplishing 
 the journey; for, according to his faith, if he is fated 
 to be there, nothing need help, as nothing can hinder, 
 the event. If he desire to possess something he has 
 only to wait and see whether it is decreed that he 
 shall have it. Eating is useless except as an enjoy- 
 ment, — and even that ought to come without eating, 
 if one is to have it ; better, therefore, eating is use- 
 
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 less except as a habit, for one's life must contiuue to 
 its appointed end whether he eat or not. So prepos- 
 terous is this belief when reduced to practice. Yet 
 some may be found in well nigh every Christian com- 
 munity who claim to hold this view. Their busy 
 lives contradict their own words, and show how 
 superficial and insincere is their profession. 
 
 The great majority of reasonable people, however, 
 who believe in the revealed perfections of Grod, hold 
 the doctrine of decrees, — at least, concerning all 
 worldly matters, — as Paul believed it, and act ac- 
 cordingly. If they wish to go anywhere, to possess 
 or effect anything, to defeat any harmful project, 
 however confidently they beheve that the omniscient 
 Grod knows what the issue is to be, — and that there- 
 fore it must be determined according to and in order 
 to that knowledge, — they exercise their best wisdom 
 in selecting their means and methods, and energetic- 
 ally and persistently use these to achieve the desired 
 end. Had they been or were they in peril as Paul 
 was from those murderous conspirators; had they 
 been with him on the endangered vessel, they would 
 have done, they would do, as he and his companions 
 did. Reasonable beings instinctively, and by prin- 
 ciples which deepen and strengthen in their life 
 experiences, employ the powers with which their 
 Creator has endowed them, and the agencies he has 
 made subject to them, in effecting the things that 
 seem to be desirable and right. Their lives every- 
 where and ever, whether with or without any regard 
 to the subject, prove that he who knows the end from 
 the beginning includes the means which are to accom- 
 plish it as certainly as the end to be accomplished 
 in his decree. Any other theory of foreordination, 
 
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 reduced to practice, results in tlie folly of expecting 
 something from nothing. 
 
 But it is only in worldly matters that this wide 
 conformity of action to conviction is found. Many 
 who illustrate it everywhere else, when they come to 
 the religious life and interests turn fatalists, and by 
 their words sometimes, and of tener by their conduct, 
 say, " If I am to be saved, I shall be saved without 
 my own efforts ; but if I am to be lost, I cannot help 
 it." And some who are unwilling to echo this bald 
 view reach the same ground through modified forms 
 of erroneous thought and speech : " God must save 
 me, therefore I can do nothing to save myself." 
 " Faith is his gift, and until he bestows it I cannot 
 believe. The Holy Spirit must quicken me, and 
 until he does this I cannot move spiritually." These, 
 like the fatalist's decrees, are only half-truths. God 
 must save us ; but instead of teaching us that we can 
 do nothing toward this, he declares just the opposite 
 truth : " Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish." 
 " Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be 
 saved." 
 
 Faith is God's gift, but the act of believing is ours ; 
 and how shall any know whether He has bestowed 
 the gift until himseK tries to believe ? While men 
 profess to be waiting for the quickening power of the 
 Holy Spirit, God says to them, " Ye do always resist 
 the Holy Ghost." 
 
 The cause of all these erroneous pleas is forgetful- 
 ness of the fact that in religious matters as in all the 
 duties and experiences of life God deals with us as 
 reasonable and moral beings. Many seem to think 
 that God must save their souls, as men save an ox or 
 an ass that has fallen into a pit, by lifting or forcing 
 
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 it, without its cooperation, or against its resistance, 
 from a place of danger to one of safety. But God 
 saves men's souls by moving them through the same 
 intellectual and moral powers by which he saves 
 their endangered bodies, and with the same kind of 
 motives. When menaced by murderous conspirators, 
 or exposed to destruction on a foundering ship, the 
 value men set on their earthly existence, and a sense 
 of their obligation to continue it, make them use 
 with greatest promptness and persistence the best 
 available means for their deliverance. So, if men 
 believe that their immortal souls are periled by their 
 roaring and devouring enemy, and that they are in 
 danger of sinking into the depths of eternal anguish 
 and despair, they must put forth efforts for their own 
 salvation by the use of the means which God hath 
 appointed to effect this. 
 
 Thus did Paul. When, under the flashings of the 
 heavenly vision that arrested his persecuting way to 
 Damascus, he learned his danger, his first cry was, 
 " Lord, what wilt thou have me to do f " And from 
 that moment until he could say, " I have finished my 
 course," he exemplified how doing God's will, or 
 obeying God's word, demonstrates to the doer its 
 divine origin and authority, and makes him the con- 
 scious subject of his saving power. 
 
 Is it said, surely, when we enter the sphere of true 
 and saving religious experience, we are subject to 
 and dependent upon a peculiar, mysterious, and in- 
 comprehensible influence of the Holy Spirit? Yes, 
 indeed ! In this life we can hardly hope to be able to 
 comprehend how God can work within a soul both to 
 will and to do of his good pleasure, and yet leave 
 that soul wholly free and responsible in its own wiU- 
 
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 ing and doing. Yet both these things are facts ; for 
 the divine scriptures assert the first, and equally with 
 human consciousness afB.rm the other. But they are 
 no more facts in the religious than they are in the 
 other experiences of life. Men while freely willing 
 and doing in their worldly projects are as directly 
 fulfilling the divine plans and making "his counsel 
 to stand," as they are by their religious efforts. And 
 clearly we are no more dependent upon Grod for 
 spiritual life, than we are for that which animates 
 body and mind in our worldly activities. 
 
 The providence of God and his management of the 
 world, so that he is " doing all his pleasure " by the 
 free and responsible acts of men, is as profound a 
 mystery as is the great economy of grace by which 
 he is gathering an elect people unto himself. But 
 we have nothing to do with the mysteries. " Secret 
 things belong to God: but those things which are 
 revealed belong unto us and to our children, forever, 
 that we may do all the words of his law." 
 
 For the individual soul the way is plain. Step by 
 step it must follow the path of duty at the time 
 before it. " Then shall we know if we follow on to 
 know the Lord." Act after act of obedience to the 
 command now heard fulfills to the soul Christ's 
 words, "He that hath my commandments and 
 keepeth them, he it is that loveth me : and he shall 
 be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will 
 manifest myself to him." 
 
 And when one knows that he is a sinner, and that 
 unless he repents, and believes in the Lord Jesus 
 Christ, he will perish in his sins, he is no more 
 authorized to delay the discharge of his duty by 
 raising the question of the relation of his salvation 
 
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 to the decrees of God, than is the man who has taken 
 poison, accidentally, and who holds in his hand the 
 antidote, to delay swallowing it by the inquiry, " Is it 
 decreed that I shall live or die 1 " There is but one 
 reply for such. Swallow the antidote or die ! Believe 
 on the Lord Jesus Christ or perish ! 
 
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 After dinner the choir again assembled, but in 
 deference to the day confined their efforts to psalms 
 and hymns and spiritual songs, which were given by 
 the efficient aid of the quartette with good effect. 
 Van remarked that it spoke well for the general 
 bringing up of the company that so many of them 
 seemed familiar with so many hymns. 
 
 The fog whistle, by this time grown almost too 
 familiar, accompanied us as we went to bed. 
 
 Monday, August 6, was more clear and pleasant in 
 the morning, and the entire party were on deck. 
 Then occurred the trial of Dr. Suydam for the 
 alleged theft of certain necessary wearing apparel 
 from his room-mate. Unfortunate as it may seem 
 this was founded upon an actual fact, and the histo- 
 rian can only draw a veil over the details of the 
 occurrence. Our friend, the fog whistle, put in its 
 usual appearance at dinner and accompanied us 
 during part of the evening ; but the choii', nothing 
 daunted, gave their usual evening medley, and pro- 
 duced, for the novelty of that evening, a rhyming 
 account of the voyage, by Dr. Suydam, entitled " The 
 Departure " : 
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 THE DEPARTURE. 
 
 The time, it was the summer, and the year was eighty-eight, 
 And Jersey was the city, and Jersey was the State, 
 Where the Dutchmen came together with gripsack in the 
 
 hand, 
 To make the start for Holland, the dear old Motherland. 
 
 They bade good-bye to mothers, to wives, and children dear, 
 The smile was forced, the voice was low that spoke the 
 
 words of cheer ; 
 And the face that once was lion, assumed the phase of lamb. 
 As it faded in the distance on the deck of the Amsterdam. 
 
 'T was beautiful to look upon as downward through the bay 
 From cities dense, 'twixt islands green, the good ship 
 
 plowed her way ; 
 Old ocean in his mildest mood received her to his arms. 
 Which caused the timid passengers to banish all alarms. 
 
 The night was passed, the morning came, the sun rose 
 bright and clear, 
 
 The call to break the matin fast was welcomed without fear 
 
 By only a few of that Dutchmen crew, since Neptune 'gan 
 to roU; 
 
 While the others lay in their berths below to pay the exact- 
 ing toll. 
 
 The world had rolled but three times round and then the 
 
 festal board 
 Received anew the absent ones, again with strength restored ; 
 Since then, at every caU of bell, they 're waiting at the door j 
 Five times a day they eat, and eat, and still they cry for more. 
 
 On deck it 's quite amusing, and quite instructive, too, 
 To note the themes of converse 'mong this peculiar crew, 
 'T is talk of years of long ago when o'er this same wide sea 
 Their fathers sailed, unto our land, to plant the family tree. 
 
 TheMohawk Vans were there, and theVans from Jersey shore; 
 From the Hudson came the Huguenots, and other Vans a score. 
 While others still, of blood as pure, from old Long Island 
 
 came. 
 And Northern lake, and Southern clime, stiU added to the 
 
 same. 
 
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 All cousins in their native land, across the sea they 're borne 
 To see from whence their fathers came two hundred years 
 
 agone ; 
 To recall the deeds of valor, and the battles that they won, 
 Whence came the boon of freedom to the land of setting 
 
 sun. 
 
 Grood fortune all attend them, may gods of sea and land 
 Grive favoring gales, send balmy air, in forest and on strand, 
 And the God on high, who rules in sky, his lesser powers 
 
 retain 
 To guard these genial Dutchmen, and bring them home 
 
 again. 
 
 Tuesday, August 7, came in with tlie fog still attend- 
 ing us. The fog v^histle blew almost all day, and in the 
 evening, until everybody was fatigued and nervous 
 from the monotonous repetition. In the afternoon the 
 excitement grew intense at what was supposed to be 
 the first glimpse of land. Off on our left, as the fog 
 lifted a moment, the captain said that a little patch 
 of what looked like mist to the pilgrims was reaUy 
 the first land of our outward voyage. We were by 
 this time so accustomed to put full faith in every- 
 thing that he did and said that we accepted his state- 
 ment with gratitude, but were unable to verify it by 
 om' own senses. We passed the Scilly Islands in a 
 dense fog and our signals were unsuccessful. Quiet 
 was necessary on the ship, in order that any approach- 
 ing danger might easily be heard; so the evening 
 meeting in the saloon was not held, and the choir 
 were obliged to have a few songs in an undertone in 
 the recesses of the smoke-room. The ship made but 
 little progress during the entire day and night, sound- 
 ing and feeling her way through the fog into the 
 dreaded English Channel with caution and discretion 
 that proved the able seamanship of her commander. 
 
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 Wednesday, August 8, found us still in the fog, 
 ■whicli seemed to grow denser and denser. The 
 sounds of life could now and then be heard through 
 the mist, but nothing could be seen through the 
 almost darkness that surrounded us. At 11.15 in the 
 morning we dropped anchor to await the rising of 
 the fog. It was a striking illustration to the histo- 
 rian of the exact nature of the seamanship of to-day 
 that was then by accident afforded him. Just before 
 the anchor was dropped the historian was standing 
 where he could watch the captain at work in the 
 chart-room over the charts and logs spread around 
 him. A sailor brought to him the last soundings, 
 the water mark indicating on the line the depth of 
 water, and the tallow at the bottom of the lead show- 
 ing the soil. The captain cut the latter out, looked 
 at it a moment, saw the depth indicated by the line, 
 and then looking up, and happening to catch the 
 historian's eye, he pointed to a spot on the chart as 
 indicating our position. This was just off Brighton, in 
 a narrow part of the Channel. Then came the order 
 to drop anchor. Absolute quiet was necessary in 
 order that careful watch could be kept on all sides ; 
 all the officers were on the bridge and the crew at 
 their posts. The unusual circumstance of a stoppage 
 being necessary at this stage of our journey cast a 
 gloom over the entire party, and the hours were passed 
 in as comfortable a state as could be until long after 
 dinner. About 9 p. m. the fog suddenly lifted. The 
 lights of England shone all round us ; and there we 
 were, just where the captain had indicated, immedi- 
 ately off Brighton, and the electric lights of the water- 
 ing places showed clearly through the evening skies. 
 The stars came out, all fog disappeared, the spirits of 
 
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 the passengers arose with a bound, the ship started 
 at full speed, and all on board were again happy. 
 Then came the last meeting of the Society on the 
 boat. This was held in the cabin, Yice-President 
 Hasbrouck in the chair. After a solo by Van Siclen, 
 in his fine bass voice, Mr. Van Heusen, Sr., offered 
 the following resolution : 
 
 "Resolved, That we, members of The Holland 
 Society, here assembled on board the good ship 
 Amsterdam, bound for Rotterdam, and quite near 
 our destination, do most earnestly out of our hearts 
 thank Secretary Greo. W. Van Siclen for his earnest, 
 intelligent, and persevering efforts to promote and 
 insure our comfort and pleasure on this voyage. 
 ' God zeegene hem.' " 
 
 This was seconded, and carried with enthusiasm. 
 Then the Rev. Mr. Suydam offered the following 
 resolution : 
 
 " Resolved, That The Holland Society place upon 
 record its grateful appreciation of the treatment 
 received during the present voyage from the repre- 
 sentatives of the Netherlands American Steam Navi- 
 gation Company, and from Captain Bonjer and the 
 officers of the Amsterdam; especially for retaining 
 the cabin for our accommodation, for the variety and 
 abundance of provisions skillfully prepared, for the 
 unexcelled service, for the uniform courtesy mani- 
 fested by officers and subordinates, for the constant 
 anticipation of our necessities, and our comfort. 
 
 " Success to the Company ! Peace and safety to offi- 
 cers and crew in the discharge of their perilous duties ! 
 
 " And every blessing upon their wives and children 
 at home ! " 
 
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 Which was carried unanimously, with, the addi- 
 tion by Van Siclen that it be spread on the ship's 
 book, and the further addition by Lydecker that all 
 cabin passengers desuing to unite with us in this 
 expression of oui' feelings on the ship's book be re- 
 quested to so unite in the signing of the resolution. 
 It was then resolved that Mr. Van Siclen be ap- 
 pointed the representative of the Society to respond 
 for the Society to any addresses of welcome that 
 might be received after landing in Holland. Mr. 
 Van Wyck then moved that we resolve ourselves into 
 a glee club. This was carried with enthusiasm, and 
 all of the old songs were resung ; and the crowning 
 ebullition of the poetic muse of the voyage was then 
 produced from the graceful pen of Dr. Elmendorf, as 
 follows : 
 
 THE HOLLAND SOCIETY OP NEW- YORK TO 
 OLD HOLLAND. 
 
 (Air : " Integer Vitse.") 
 
 Land of our fathers, we thy shores are seeking, 
 
 Drawn by thy glory, driven by filial love ; 
 O'er each famed spot where waves as famed are breaking, 
 
 Now we would fondly rove. 
 
 Earth has no land more full of moral wonders ; 
 
 No names are brighter on history's radiant page ; 
 Symbols of peace, or echoing war's dread thunders — 
 
 From age to following age. 
 
 Liberty's champions, truth's most willing martyrs, 
 Here taught the world how sweet it is to die 
 
 For one's dear country ; for one's hope more precious 
 Of immortality. 
 
 Good men are better for the men of Holland ; 
 
 Nations are nobler whose lives received her life ; 
 Valor is firmer from the strength each right hand 
 
 Gains from her holy strife. 
 
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 Come we with reverence to the graves of grandsires ; 
 
 Lay our heart offerings on their hallowed ground ; 
 Go with the purpose their nobleness inspires, 
 
 And worthy sons be found. 
 
 God of our fathers, who their nation founded, 
 Keep thou the people great, and strong, and pure ; 
 
 In love of country, truth, and brethren grounded, 
 While nations shall endure. 
 
 After the adjournment all again went on deck. 
 The beautiful night and the excitement of being again 
 under way under such auspicious circumstances, with 
 the certainty that our voyage was almost ended, kept 
 all from sleeping. There was much to be seen in the 
 constant succession of lights on the English coast. 
 The number of vessels continually passing, and the 
 evidences all around us of human life, were in striking 
 contrast with the isolation through which we had 
 been traveling for so many days. At 11.30 we passed 
 a large lighthouse station, with telegraphic com- 
 munication to London, and accordingly we signaled 
 our presence. This was done by a man in the bow 
 with a green roman candle, a man in the center of 
 the ship with a white, and another in the stern with 
 a green, thus showing the colors of the Company. 
 At the word of command these were all ignited at 
 once and the effect was most pleasing. In a few 
 moments came the answering signal from the tower ; 
 and we knew that the next instant electric messages 
 would be conveying the intelligence of oui* safety 
 both to Holland and to America. 
 
 Here ends the record of the voyage. It has been 
 made as brief as mention of its principal events 
 would allow. To those who participated in its pleas- 
 ures this epitome of what happened will recall many 
 happy hours and pleasant incidents. Although in a 
 
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 measui'e overshadowed by the unexpected grandeur 
 and warmth of our reception in Holland, yet the 
 voyage of the Amsterdam on that memorable ex- 
 pedition, and the kindness and seamanship of the 
 gallaut Bonjer and his associates, will ever remain 
 most pleasing memories in the minds and hearts 
 of the Pilgrims to Holland. 
 
 11. — THE KECEPTION. 
 
 THE morning of Thursday, August 9, found us in 
 the North Sea, with clear sky and smooth water. 
 Our curiosity and interest were strung to the highest 
 pitch in the certainty that our long voyage was about 
 over, and that the land of our forefathers soon would 
 be before us. Crafts of every description were con- 
 tinually passed, and all eyes were strained for the first 
 glimpse of land. A most foreign looking vessel bore 
 down upon us, and the Dutch pilot of the North Sea 
 came on board. He was a most thorough specimen 
 of an old salt, rather above the medium height, but 
 massive and broad in construction, with a weather- 
 beaten face, surrounded by a fringe of whiskers. 
 Clad in a half naval uniform, he walked the bridge, 
 intent only on his duty, and with no regard to the 
 many curious eyes upon him. Soon on our port 
 bow could be seen a long strip of what at first seemed 
 like a thin cloud, but which rapidly assumed form 
 and stability, and was seen to be low stretches of 
 sand with banks and little hillocks built up by the 
 wind and waves. This was our first glimpse of Hol- 
 land. We noted with surprise the clear line of 
 demarkation between the dark blue waters of the 
 
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 North Sea, and the greenish, yellow-tinted waters of 
 the Maas and Scheldt rivers. This at first appeared 
 almost like a long narrow needle, in the clear water of 
 the sea, but gradually became broader and wider and 
 darker in color until it extended north and south as 
 far as the eye could reach at the distance of six miles 
 from shore. Then a great church with a massive 
 tower appeared, rising apparently out of the sand, 
 with nothing around it, and here and there a few 
 lighthouse towers ; and these were the only prominent 
 features of the landscape. In a few moments we 
 entered the canal or Nieuw Waterweg at the Hoek of 
 Holland. Our steamer was then decked with flags, 
 the officers in full uniform, all in readiness for the 
 welcome which awaited us. As we fairly entered the 
 canal we began to see the distinctive characteristics 
 of the Dutch scenery. Standing on the deck of the 
 steamer, fifteen feet above the level of the canal, we 
 seemed to be able to overlook the greater part of 
 Holland. On the banks of the canal on either side 
 were seen the tops of willows and birch trees, planted 
 closely, with regularity, and trimmed so as to have no 
 undergrowth. The land on both sides was much 
 below the level of the banks of the canal, so that we 
 looked down upon the land, which lay far below us. 
 Hidden in clusters of green were seen the tops of 
 houses, and in the fields, unmarked by fences, but 
 really separated by low small ditches, were black and 
 white cattle peacefully grazing. Soon the windmills 
 began to appear on all sides ; some quiescent, some 
 lazily moving their arms, others rapidly waving their 
 great limbs. Presently a most business-like little 
 steam yacht approached the vessel, and the custom- 
 house officers came on board, accompaniedby a small 
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 reception committee. Then was given the first evi- 
 dence of the many courtesies to be showered upon 
 us. A gentleman appeared with a large number of 
 
 tags on which were printed, Mr. , Member of 
 
 The Holland Society of New York. Each of us was 
 asked how many pieces of baggage he had ; and to 
 each was given the requisite number of tags, with 
 instructions to write his name on the tag, and place 
 one on each piece of baggage. Every piece that bore 
 one of these tags was passed without examination 
 by the custom-house officers. This was an act of 
 governmental courtesy as unexpected as it was grace- 
 ful. Another tug decked with flags then appeared, 
 steaming rapidly towards us, bearing a delegation 
 from Rotterdam, who came on board and were intro- 
 duced to many members of the party. The brass 
 band who accompanied them escorted us on our way, 
 playing American airs in honor of the visitors. All 
 the shipping that we passed were decked with flags, 
 and salutes and cheers were frequent. The pilgrims, 
 excited by the occasion, and enthusiastic and patriotic 
 to the highest degree, over and over again gave their 
 cheer, which they had carefully prepared for the 
 occasion, vi^., Rah, Rah, Rah ; Rah, Rah, Rah ; Rah, 
 Rah, Rah; B-o-n-j-e-r; Bonjer. In this way we 
 passed Maasluis, Vlaardingen, and Schiedam, three 
 smaller places on the river, and at length approached 
 the wharves of Rotterdam. The city rose before us, 
 full of life, and with many imposing structures. As 
 we neared the wharf, about four o'clock in the after- 
 noon, we could see the long gang-plank ready to be 
 swung on board, and near by an immense naastiff 
 watching every movement with intense interest. The 
 moment the ship was fast and the plank moved 
 
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 the dog bounded forward and was tlie first on board. 
 He was the noble animal of the captain awaiting his 
 return and manifesting in every way his joy at the 
 arrival of his master. 
 
 Here at the wharf we were met by a committee 
 representing Rotterdam, among whom besides Mr. 
 J. V. Wierdsma, director of the Netherlands Ameri- 
 can Steamship Co., were Jhr. Otto Reuchlin, Mr. 
 Hendrik P. H. Muller, Hzn., and many prominent 
 gentlemen of the city. 
 
 We were speedily placed in carriages and told to 
 have no concern for our baggage. In a long proces- 
 sion we were quickly transported through the town 
 to a large railway station; there we disembarked, 
 and for a few moments were left to ourselves to 
 recover our composure after our exciting welcome. 
 With characteristic American adaptability, we aU 
 fell to investigating the station, buying papers, Hght 
 refreshments, and cigars, for the sake of having our 
 first transactions in a foreign currency. Our greatest 
 surprise in this line was experienced when we found 
 that really fair cigars cost about two cents apiece. 
 Shortly afterwards a special train drew into the 
 station, and we were quickly aboard. The foreign 
 cars, with their divisions into three carriages, running 
 crosswise, seemed novel, and added to the general 
 foreign feeling we all experienced. As a special mark 
 of honor the King's railway carriage was placed at the 
 disposal of the ladies of the party. We started about 
 five o'clock and were rapidly carried, with few stops, 
 to our destination. On either side, as we looked out, 
 the distinctive features of the Dutch scenery pre- 
 sented themselves ; a broad low country, with dark 
 gray clouds in the sky ; flat meadows cut into regular 
 
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 parallelograms by small canals; farm-houses sur- 
 rounded by trees planted closely, and in straight lines, 
 forming a square around the house ; black and white 
 cattle everywhere ; well kept roads higher than the 
 fields, traversing them at almost regular intervals; 
 windmills everywhere, ranging from the baby wind- 
 mill, about two feet high, at the end of minute ditches, 
 up to the enormous towers wherein were pumps 
 driven by steam. As we approached Amsterdam it 
 almost seemed like the approach to the upper end of 
 New York when coming in on the railroad ; blocks of 
 houses a few squares off just being completed, and 
 between them and the railroad a half-made and half- 
 filled street stretching out, with its pavement yet 
 unfinished. Amsterdam was reached about seven 
 o'clock in the evening. Quickly disembarking we 
 were met at the station by a reception committee, 
 Messrs. Cazaux van Staphorst, J. Voute, Czn., and A. 
 J. van Eeghen, with open carriages, and were driven 
 in a sort of informal procession through the crowded 
 streets to the hotel. Salutations were given us on 
 every side, and as we approached the hotel the Ameri- 
 can flag waving over its portal showed the welcome 
 beneath its doors. The quickly arriving crowd of ac- 
 tive Americans proved almost too much for the rather 
 slow-moving temperament of the proprietors, but we 
 were soon assigned to our rooms. The overflow were 
 provided for in the Hotel Rondeel close by, and about 
 nine o'clock we sat down to our first dinner. The 
 hotel, which was the headquarters of the visitors 
 while in Holland, was the Bracks Doelen, on Klo- 
 veniersburgwal Gracht, a fairly comfortable hostelry, 
 chosen for its central position. One or two of the 
 party, who had made the journey before, had given 
 
45 
 
 us many stirring accounts of the glories of the Kal- 
 verstraat at midnight, and accordingly, at a moderate 
 estimate, about ninety per cent, of the expedition 
 made their way to this famous street at the time 
 when they had understood its glories were the 
 greatest. They found a narrow street, not very long 
 in extent, with sidewalks about a yard wide, and the 
 roadway paved with asphalt. It was lined on both 
 sides with shops and restaurants, all ablaze. No 
 vehicles are allowed in the street after ten o'clock ; 
 and with both roadway and sidewalk filled with pedes- 
 trians passing to and fro, all life and gaiety, it cer- 
 tainly was a scene strange to American eyes, and one 
 not entirely consonant with our ideas of Dutch 
 phlegm and decorum. 
 
 AMSTERDAM. 
 
 THE morning of Friday, August 10, found the en- 
 tire party well, in good spirits, and eager for the 
 novelties before them. On arriving at the hotel the 
 evening before, each member of the party was pre- 
 sented with a huge envelope. This contained a large 
 map of Amsterdam, an elegantly gotten-up guide- 
 book of the city, specially prepared for the use of the 
 members of The Holland Society, cards of invitation 
 to several clubs and societies, and tickets for the 
 various trips prepared for us by the Amsterdam 
 committee. This was a most complete surprise and 
 showed the care and liberality which had been dis- 
 played in preparing for our welcome. We felt indeed 
 that we were welcome guests in a most hospitable 
 land. 
 
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 on FRIDAY, AUGUST lOtli 1888 at 8.30 p. m. 
 ..O and on Board the Steamer „WILLEM III" 
 
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 on TUESDAY, AUGUST 14tli 1888 at 8.30 a. m. 
 for a Trip to MARKEN and HOORN. 
 
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 KATUBA ARTIS MAGISTRA. 
 AMSTERDAM. 
 
 UITNOODIGING 
 
 voor den Seer 
 
 JUDAH B. YOORHEES. 
 
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 L. G. VAN HOORN, 
 
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 We found that the committee, with kind intent to 
 allow us an opportunity to recover from the fatigues 
 of the journey, had left the first morning free for the 
 pilgrims to get rested and accustomed to their novel 
 surroundings. All therefore indulged in a little 
 foreign shopping, and some promiscuous sight seeing. 
 
 The Amsterdamsche Courant and Sandelsblad of 
 August 10, 1888, in its City News thus spoke of 
 our arrival : 
 
 Our American Brethren. 
 
 They have arrived ! They are within our walls, these 
 descendants of our forefathers who crossed over to the New 
 World and settled there. They are here, at Amsterdam, 
 they who now, a great many of them at least, are residents 
 of New York, the New Amsterdam of former years. And 
 even if they have heen compelled to replace the language of 
 Holland with that of Alhion, still they have not forgotten 
 HoUand, still they, the members of The Holland Society, con- 
 sider it an act of piety to visit the country where their 
 ancestors lived, to view the spot where stood the cradle of 
 their forefathers. 
 
 And therefore they came to Holland in a Dutch steamer, 
 a ship of a Dutch company, the Amsterdam. This morn- 
 ing a member of our editorial staff had an interview with 
 Mr. Geo. W. Van Siclen, the actual projector of this trip, 
 one might say the president of that section of The HoUand 
 Society which is now in our midst. The reception our re- 
 porter met with was most poUte. Mr. Van Siclen, who has 
 been in Holland before, considered it a pleasure to be inter- 
 viewed by an Amsterdam newspaper-man. Of course the 
 first question was about the sea-voyage. " How has it 
 been ? " 
 
 "Charming. We had a splendid vessel, and above all 
 an excellent commander ; everybody on board was kindness 
 itself. Grood weather favored us, but for that matter," Mr. 
 Van Siclen added with a smile, "we members of The Holland 
 Society always have fine weather. We met some fog in the 
 Channel which delayed us a few hours. But otherwise 
 
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 U I D E 
 
 THfiOrGH 
 
 AMSTERDAM 
 
 offered to the members of the 
 
 HOLLAND SOCIETY OF NEW-YORK 
 
 ON THE OCCASION OF THEIR VISIT TO THIS CITY 
 
 AUGUST 1888. 
 
THE 
 
 RECEPTION COMMITTEE 
 
 on the occasion of a visit of Members of the „ Holland 
 Society " of New- York to the city of Amsterdam in August, 
 1888, includes the following gentlemen : 
 
 F. A. Ankbrsmit, member of the firm of Jacob Ankersmit 
 & Son, merchants. 
 
 C. D. AssER, Junr., L,L. D. 
 
 Professor T. M. C. Asser, L.L. D. 
 
 Charles Boissevain, Editor of the „ Algemeen Handels- 
 blad". 
 
 J. M. VAN BossE, member of the firm of Wed . J. van 
 Bosse & Son, underwriters. 
 
 H. Cazaux van Staphorst. 
 
 C. E. DuTiLH, Junr., General Agent of the Netherlands 
 American Steam Navigation Company. 
 
 J. H. VAN Eeghen, member of the firm of H. Oyens & 
 Sons, Bankers. 
 
 W. Heijbroek, Jr., member of the firm W. Heijbroek, Jr. 
 &Co. 
 
 Dr. H. F. R. HuBRECHT, Director and Manager of the 
 Bell-Telephone Company. 
 
 Rev. P. H. HuGENHOLTZ, Junr. 
 
 R. R. H. TOE Laer, Director of the „ Equitable" Life 
 Insurance Company of New York. 
 
 H. J. DE Marez Oyens, member of the firm of H. Oyens 
 & Sons, Bankers. 
 
 J. L. PiERSON, member of the firm of Adolph Boissevain 
 & Co., Bankers. 
 
 Aug. Rapp, Jr., Director of the „ New York " Life Insur- 
 ance Company. 
 
 A. RoELViNK, member of the firm of B. "W. Blijdenstein 
 & Co., Bankers. 
 
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 N. DE ROEVER, L.L. D., archivist of the City of Ams- 
 terdam. 
 
 Dr. H. C. RoGGE, Librarian of the University. 
 
 H. Trip, member of the firm of Koopmans & Bruinier, 
 merchants. 
 
 H. DE Veer, Editor of the „ Nieuws van den Dag ". 
 
 J. VouTB, cz, member of the firm of J. & M. Voute, 
 brokers. 
 
 A. C. Werthebi, member of the firm of Wertheim & 
 Gompertz, bankers. 
 
 Dr. G. F. Westerman, Director and Manager of the 
 Royal Zoological Society „ Natura Artis Magistra ". 
 Martin "Wolff, merchant. 
 
 B. C. E. ZWART. 
 
Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands,*) has a popu- 
 lation of nearly 400,000 inhabitants. Its history begins in 
 the early part of the Xlllth century, when the Lord of 
 Amstel built a castle at the mouth of the Amstel-river, and 
 laid a dyke, which is now the Dam. Hundred years later 
 the city was united with the county of Holland and gradu- 
 ally extended its trade, especially with Grermany and the 
 Scandinavian kingdoms. In 1452, when the greater part 
 of the city was burnt, Amsterdam was considered the largest 
 market of the Northern Netherlands. In the beginning of 
 the XVIth. century its merchants and shipowners extended 
 their operations to the Canary-islands and to the Mediter- 
 ranean. During the period of religious dissensions and of 
 the war with Spain, Amsterdam sided for a long time with 
 the Spaniards to the great detriment, bordering on ruin, of 
 its mercantile and shipping interests. In 1578, the magi- 
 strates who had favored the Spanish cause having been 
 expelled, a hew aera begins in the history of the city. 
 All the merchants, who had left on account of their alle- 
 giance to the Prince of Orange, returned, and when some 
 years later Antwerp fell into the hands of the Spaniards, a 
 large part of the population of the latter city settled in 
 Amsterdam. In 1597 the first ships sailed from this port 
 direct for India. The East-India-Company was incorpor- 
 ated in 1602, the "West-India-Company in 1621. But half a 
 century before, Amsterdam and other Dutch vessels had 
 already reached Gruiana, called „ the wild coast ", and fetched 
 salt from there, which Holland required in large quantities 
 for its herring- trade. North America was visited by Amster- 
 
 *) The seat of the government is at the Hague, which is also the 
 King's residence. 
 
dam merchants some years before the West-India-Company 
 was incorporated. 
 
 Having the key to the East- and the West-Indies, treasures 
 flowed to Amsterdam, which now became the great center 
 of trade of the whole of Europe, overshadowing the glory 
 of Venice and Antwerp. During this period the great 
 City-hall was built, in commemoration of the conclusion of 
 peace with Spain (1648), and adorned as well with all the 
 treasures that wealth could procure at that time in marble, 
 metals, and woods, as with the master-pieces of the best 
 artists of the Dutch school of painting and sculpture. It 
 is now used as a royal palace. The fine residences along 
 the Heeren- and Keizersgrachten date from the same period. 
 
 Whilst the XVIIth. century had been one of action and 
 industry, the XVIIIth. was one of rest and quiet enjoyment 
 of the treasures amassed by former generations. Neverthe- 
 less the trade of the city continued to be very considerable, 
 but several wars with England, which caused the loss of 
 many thousands of ships with their rich cargoes, the revo- 
 lution of 1795, and the domination of the French {tUl 1813), 
 with its heavy war contributions and the reduction of the 
 interest on the national debt to one third of the original 
 figure, ruined a great many people. The population of 
 Amsterdam was reduced to 120,000. With the return of 
 the house of Orange a revival soon became apparent. The 
 „ Nederlandsche Handel Maatschappij " was incorporated in 
 1824, a large canal running from Amsterdam northward to 
 the sea was made in 1819-24, and new docks on both sides 
 of the city were built 1828-32. 
 
 About the middle of this century, however, it became 
 evident that all these works would only enable Amster- 
 dam to compete with other ports, provided, a shorter com- 
 munication with the sea was established. This led to the 
 construction of the North-sea-canal, and of the port of 
 Ymuiden. The canal was opened in 1876. 
 
The consequent increase of trade is shown by the fol- 
 lowing table: 
 
 
 Ships having passed the Locks at Ymuiden 
 
 
 
 
 (North-Sea). 
 
 Ships 
 
 having 
 
 passed 
 
 t/ie 
 
 locks 
 
 s^ 
 
 
 
 « 
 
 ^ 
 
 
 
 
 
 Both ways. 
 
 
 Out- 
 ward. 
 
 Cub. Meter. 
 
 In- 
 
 ward. 
 
 Oub. Meter. 
 
 
 (Zuider 
 
 
 
 
 Zee.) 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Ships. 
 
 Oub. Meter. 
 
 
 1875 
 
 
 Opening 1st November 1876. 
 
 
 
 68,935 
 
 1876 
 
 147 
 
 132,662 
 
 96 
 
 99,361 
 
 243 
 
 232,023 
 
 80,664 
 
 1877 
 
 1706 
 
 1,462,178 
 
 1670 
 
 1,421,598 
 
 3376 
 
 2,883,776 
 
 90,868 
 
 1878 
 
 1655 
 
 1,581,504 
 
 1587 
 
 1,601,369 
 
 3242 
 
 3,182,873 
 
 80,648 
 
 1879 
 
 1919 
 
 1,857,833 
 
 2994 
 
 1,953,980 
 
 4013 
 
 3,811,813 
 
 73,879 
 
 1880 
 
 2214 
 
 2,107,188 
 
 2281 
 
 2,157,744 
 
 4495 
 
 4,264,962 
 
 87,763 
 
 1881 
 
 2266 
 
 2,320,927 
 
 2337 
 
 2,269,397 
 
 4603 
 
 4,590,324 
 
 78,399 
 
 1882 
 
 2321 
 
 2,580,370 
 
 2353 
 
 2,595,325 
 
 4674 
 
 5,175,695 
 
 81,568 
 
 1883 
 
 2773 
 
 2,742,049 
 
 2821 
 
 2,695,242 
 
 5594 
 
 5,437,291 
 
 91,253 
 
 1884 
 
 2776 
 
 2,979,764 
 
 2660 
 
 2,952,598 
 
 5436 
 
 5,932,362 
 
 84,629 
 
 1885 
 
 2744 
 
 3,022,977 
 
 3067 
 
 3,031,295 
 
 5811 
 
 6,054,272 
 
 86,033 
 
 1886 
 
 2852 
 
 c 2,401,055* 
 i 718,719t 
 
 3090 
 
 c 2,428,920* 
 I 704,431t 
 
 5942 
 
 c 4,829,975* 
 { l,423,150t 
 
 86,033 
 
 
 
 
 
 85,239 
 
 1887 
 
 3019 
 
 4,077,128t 
 
 3237 
 
 4,137,604t 
 
 6256 
 
 8,214, 732t 
 
 89,437 
 
 In connection with this canal the port of Amsterdam 
 itself was considerably improved. The city constructed the 
 Suez-piers, cattle-piers, wood-harbour, eastern tradequay, 
 hydraulic-engines, petroleum-harbour, and several other 
 quays and piers. The Dutch government built a raHroad 
 with its station close to the port, whilst a new canal to the 
 Rhine is now in course of construction. Many millions of 
 guilders have been spent for the improvement of the port 
 of Amsterdam during the last ten years. 
 
 Steamers and sailing vessels, drawing 24 feet can reach 
 Amsterdam at aU times. The Locks, now in use, can accom- 
 modate vessels of a length of 400 feet, and the construction 
 of locks for the accommodation of even longer vessels is in 
 a fair way of being realized. Along the „ Commercial Quay " 
 the canal has a depth of 26 feet. 
 
 * Net; t Gross. 
 
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 W5n 
 
Calt)S at the Stations and at the Cabstands. The driver is 
 bound to give his number and a table of fares. Drive of 
 J hour, or less, 70 cts. ; of more than ^ hour, but not 
 exceeding 1 hour, 1 fl. Every additional ^ hour 25 cts. 
 After midnight : J hour, or less, 1 fl. 20 ; every additional 
 i hour, 40 cts. No charge for light luggage carried inside, 
 and no gratuity may be exacted. 
 Table of fares for Carriages hired at the Livery Stables : 
 Closed carriage, per drive, 80 Cts., per hour, 1 fl. 
 One horse open carriage, per drive 1 fl., per hour, 1 fl. 50. 
 Two horse carriage, per drive 2 fls., per hour 2 fls. 50. 
 Tramways. Fare 12J cts. ; tickets can be obtained at the 
 kiosks for 10 J cts., and from some booksellers per package 
 of 25 for 2 fls. 50. Transfer tickets, only obtainable from 
 the conductors 12^ cts. 
 
 Principal lines : Dam — Plantage — Linnaeusstraat : 
 Dam 8.20 a.m. to 11 — 30 p.m. ; Linnaeusstraat 7.55 a. m. to 
 11.10 p.m. At night, green light. 
 
 Dam — Sarphatistraat : Sarphatistraat 8 a.m. to 11.10 
 p.m. Dam 8.15 a.m. to 11.30 p.m. At night, red light, 
 
 Tulpplein — Weesperzijde : Tulpplein 8.30 a.m. to 11.45 
 p.m. Weesperzijde 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. At night, red 
 Hght. 
 
 Dam — Vondelstraat — P. C. Hooftstraat: Vondelstraat 
 and P. C. Hooftstraat 8 a.m. to 11.10 p.m. ; Dam 8.15 
 a.m. to 11.30 p.m. At night, Dam — Vondelstraat, red 
 light. Dam — P. C. Hooftstraat, two red lights. 
 
 Leidscheplein — Plantage: Leidseheplein 8 a.m. to 
 11.10 p.m. Plantage 8.20 a.m. to 11.30 p.m. At night, 
 green light. 
 
 Leidscheplein — Marnixstraat : Leidscheplein 8 a.m. to 
 11.10 p.m. Marnixstraat 8.20 a.m. to 11.30 p.m. At 
 night, red light. 
 
 Leidscheplein — Overtoom: Overtoom 8 a.m. to 11.10 
 p.m. Leidscheplein 8.30 a.m. to 11 p.m. At night, green 
 light. 
 
 Dam — Prins Hendrikkade : Dam 8 a.m. to 11.20 p.m. 
 Prins Hendrikkade 8.15 a.m. to 11.30 p.m. At night, red 
 light. 
 
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 Kadijk — Czaar Peterstraat : Kadijksplein 8.15 a.m. to 
 11.45 p.m. Czaar Peterstraat 8 a.m. to 11.10 p.m. At 
 night, red light. 
 
 Dam — Haarlemmerplein : Haarlemmerplein 8 a.m. to 
 11.30 p.m. Dam 8.15 a.m. to 11.30 p.m. At night, two 
 green lights. 
 
 Dam — Central Station : A car runs for every train 
 arriving at the Central Station or leaving it, on the lines 
 Dutch Railway C. or Eastern Railwy C". At night, 
 green light. 
 
 Dam — Rhenish Railway Station : A car runs for every 
 train arriving at the Station or leaving it. At night, two 
 red lights. 
 
 Dam — Amsteldijk : Amsteldijk 8 a.m to 11.10 p.m. 
 Dam 8.20 a.m. to 11.30 p.m. At night, green light. 
 
 Steam-tram. See: trips. 
 
 Steamboats. Dam — Schulpbrug (Station Rokin, near the 
 Beursstraat) every J hour ; fare 7^ cts. (Tickets at the 
 kiosks 5J cts.) Other lines: Schreierstoren — Handels- 
 kade — Koninginnedok, every hour, and every J hour; 
 Amsterdam to Nieuwendam, to Oostzaan, io Ouderkerk, 
 etc. Ferryboat to the Tolhuis from the de Ruijterkade 4 cts. 
 
 Restaurants : Biche on the Rokin : Panopticum * (cost 
 900,000 fl. to built), Amstelstraat ; KrasnapolsJcy* (largest 
 establishment of Europe, summer- and winter-gardens ; 20 
 billiard tables; lighted by electricity), Warmoesstraat ; 
 Sollandais* ; American Hotel* (fine view of the city from 
 the top), both Leidsehe plein ; Artis (Zoological Gardens) ; 
 Milles Colonnes*, Rembrandtsplein ; Willemsen*, Heiligen- 
 weg ; Cafe Weuf*, Oude Graaf*, Frangais*, Beinsberg*, 
 Suisse*, Bavaria*, Loii'enirau* , de Karsehoom, all in the 
 Kalverstraat ; Port van Cleve*, N. Z. Voorburgwal ; Con- 
 cordia*, St. Luciensteeg ; Palais Boyal*, Paleisstraat ; 
 't Vosje ; Rokin (Billardroom) ; in the Warmoesstraat Ger- 
 man and Bavarian beershops ; Maison StrouJcen*. Leidsehe 
 Kade ; Londres*, Amstelstraat, etc. 
 
 Coffee-houses. The restaurants marked thus * are also 
 coffeehouses ; among others may be mentioned ; Conti- 
 nental, Tulpplein ; PoolscJie Koffiehuis, Kalverstraat ; 
 Paviljoen, Vondelpark ; Nieuwe Amsterdamsche Koffiehuis, 
 Kalverstraat (old gin) ; Boode Leeuw, Vijgendam ; Flora, 
 Weteringschans ; Vondel, Yondelstraat ; Komeet, Graven- 
 straat, etc. 
 
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 Bodegas, Bars and Refreshment Rooms. Wijnand 
 FocMnk, Passage, Damstraat ; (very interresting ; it has 
 remained in the same condition as in the former century) 
 't Lootsje, Kalverstraat (old style) ; Bodega Continental, 
 Kalverstraat; Bodega Amsterdam, Damrak. ; Bodega Port 
 van Cleve, Voorburgwal ; Union des Producteurs, Rokin 
 and Doelenstraat ; Caves de France, Kalverstraat. 
 
 Oyster Rooms, van Laar, Damrak, Kalverstraat, and 
 Regulierbreestraat ; 8aur, Reguliersbreestraat. Confec- 
 tioners etc., Figi and van Giesen, Kalverstraat. 
 
 Post and Telegraph. The Main Office : N. Z. Voorburgwal, 
 at the back of the Palace. Branch offices in P. C. Hoof- 
 straat and other parts of the City ; a Telegraph Office at 
 the Exchange. 
 
 The Messengers' C. (uniform cap, marked in front, 
 T>. V. M. and number.) Main Office : 82, N. Z. Voorburg- 
 wal J branch offices in some parts of the City. Tariff : 10 
 cts. per i hour. 15 cts. per J hour, etc. (without hand- 
 carts, etc.) 
 
 Bathing Establishments: Rokin, opposite the Bank of 
 Netherlands, 60 cts. per bath ; 158 Heerengi-acht, 50 cts. 
 per bath ; 117 Amstel, 35 cts. per bath ; Amsteldijk, 30 
 cts. per bath. Swimming and Private Baths, de Ruijter- 
 kade, 40 cts. per bath. 
 
 Exchange Offices: Anspach & Donk, 188 N. Z. Voor- 
 burgwal; Joh. Kramer & C. 17 Dam ; Twentsche Bank, 
 144 Spuistraat; Sanders & C., Paleisstraat and Nieuwen- 
 dijk ; Levie Brothers, Kalverstraat. 
 
 Bankers. Adolph Boissevain & C., 237 Heerengracht. 
 Twentsche Bank, 144 Spuistraat; Hope & C^., 579 
 Keizersgracht ; Succ. Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas, 
 539 Heerengracht; Amsterdamsche Bank, 597/9 Heeren- 
 gracht; Determeyer, "WesUngh & Son, 518 Heerengracht ; 
 Lipmann, Rosenthal & C"., 6 Nieuwe Spiegelstraat ; 
 Becker & Fuld, 452 Keizersgracht ; Wertheim & Grom- 
 pertz, Amstelstraat. 
 
 Antiquities. Speijer. near the Dam ; Boas Berg; Etienne 
 Delaunoy, all Kalverstraat; van Oalen, N. Z. Voorburg- 
 wal ; Salomons, Sophiaplein. 
 
 Depot of Delftware. Tognacca en Cossa, Kalverstraat. 
 
 Painting and engravings. Buffa en Co., Kalverstraat; 
 Van Grogh, Keizersgracht. 
 
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 Booksellers in nearly every street. Fred. Muller & C"., 
 the celebrated antiquarians, make a speciality of books 
 of American History, Doelenstraat near Brack's Doelen 
 Hotel. Another very good store is R. W. P. de Vries 
 Warmoesstraat, 
 
 Stands with second hand books for sale in the University 
 Passage (Oudemanhuisport). 
 
 The best and largest stores are in the Kalverstraat, 
 Nieuwendijk, Leidschestraat and Reguliersbreesstraat, 
 which thorough-fares are crowded every evening. 
 
 Theatres, Concerts, etc. 
 
 (consult the Newspapers.) 
 
 Municipal Theatre (Stadsschouwburg), Leidsche Plein ; 
 Sculptures of Bart van Hove. Seldom open in summer. 
 
 Faleis voor VolJcsvUjt (Industrial Palace), concert, or ballet. 
 
 Zoological Gardens (Natura Artis Magistra), concert every 
 Wednesday evening and every Monday afternoon, in 
 summer. 
 
 ParJcscJiouwhirg (Theatre of the Park), opperettas, (Thurs- 
 day and Sunday in the Hall, the other evenings in the 
 garden). 
 
 Grand Theatre van Lier, Amstelstraat, Dutch, English and 
 Grerman Plays. 
 
 Thedtre van Lier, Plantage, Dutch Plays. 
 
 ParTt, concerts. 
 
 Frascati (Prot & Son, proprietors). Plantage, Operettas. 
 
 Salon des Varietes, Amstelstraat, Comedies. 
 
 Tivoli, Music Hall, Nes (in the summer relaehe). 
 
 Tolhuis, across the Y, by ferryboat, Concerts Sunday. 
 
 Music Sails, Nes and Warmoesstraat. 
 
 Circus of Carre, Binnen Amstel, closed in summer. 
 
 Principal Churches. 
 
 Dutch Reformed, Nieuwe Kerk, Oude Kerk, Nooder Kerk, 
 Zuider Kerk, Wester Kerk, Ooster Kerk, Amstel Kerk, 
 Eilands Kerk, Koepel Kerk, Oude-Zijds Kapel, Nieuwe- 
 Zijds Kapel. 
 
 Evangelical Lutheran, Spui and Singel ; Reformed Lutheran, 
 Kloveniersburgwal. 
 
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 Christian Reformed, Keizersgracht and Plantage. 
 
 Dutch Reformed (Dolens), KeizersgracM, in course of con- 
 struction. 
 
 French or Walloon, O.Z. Achterburgwal (Walenpleintje), 
 and Keizersgracht. 
 
 English Episcopal, Groeneburgwal. 
 
 English Presbyterian, Bagijnhof. 
 
 Free Church, Weteringschans. 
 
 Reformed Remonstrant, Keizersgracht. 
 
 United Baptist, Heerengracht. 
 
 Scotch Mission, Binnen Amstel. 
 
 Scandinavian, Prins Hendrikkade. 
 
 Roman Catholic, Mozes en Aaron, Houtgracht ; De Boom, 
 Kalverstraat ; bet Duifje, Prinsengracbt; De Posthoorn, 
 De Zaaier, both Keizersgracht; de Krijtberg, Singel; 
 Petrus en Paulus, N.Z. Voorburgwal; De Papegaai, 
 Kalverstraat; Heilige Willebrordus, Amsteldijk; Hart 
 van Jezus, Vondelstraat. 
 
 Synagogue of the Dutcb Jews, Jonas Daniel Meijerplein. 
 
 Synagogue of the Portuguese Jews, Muiderstraat. 
 
 For a trip throngh the City and taking tbe Main office 
 of the Dutcb Railway Co. as point of departure one finds 
 (on tbe right), tbe Prins Hendrikkade (bust of Prince 
 Henry of tbe Netherlands, by Stracke) tbe river Y, East 
 and West docks (on tbe left). Following tbe tramway- 
 line Damrak one sees on tbe left : 
 
 Tbe „Onde Kerk" (Old Church) of tbe year 1300 ; shown 
 every day on application to tbe sexton (Koster) (Gratuity 
 25 cts.). Stained glass windows representing, among 
 other things, tbe death of Maria, beautiful work of 
 XVI"" century ; tbe „Iron Chapel " (archives) ; a funeral 
 chapel of tbe family de Graaf by Quellien ; monuments 
 of Heemskerk, van der Zaan, etc. 
 
 On reaching the Dam, one of tbe largest squares of Am- 
 sterdam, considered as the central point of the city one 
 finds, on tbe left, the Exchange, built 1865; in tbe 
 centre the 
 
 Monument commemorating tbe events of 1830 — '31, by 
 Royer. To tbe right tbe ,, Nieuwe Kerk" (New Church) 
 rebuilt in 1648, after a fire in 1645 ; tbe pulpit is Vincken- 
 
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 brineks masterpiece, fine organ, stained glass windows, 
 monuments of de Ruijter, van. G-alen, van Speijk, Vondel, 
 Da Costa, etc. To be seen daily on application to the 
 sexton (koster). Gratuity, 25 cts. 
 
 The Palace (admission 50 cts.) of the middle of the 17* 
 century, built by Jacob van Campen, sculptures by 
 Quellien, decorative painting by Flinck, Ferdinand Bol, 
 Jordaens, de Wit, etc. bronzework by Hemony. The 
 building rests on 13659 piles, is 80 metres long, 63 broad, 
 33 high, including tower, 51 metres. From the tower one 
 enjoys a nice view of the city. The vane is in the form of a 
 ship, the former seal of the city. The Palace is decorated, 
 inside and outside, with numerous allegorical figures and 
 emblems. Each corner of the roof, with its 18 stacks of 
 chimneys, is ornamented with the Imperial crown, the 
 Emperor Maximilian having given the City the privilege 
 of using the Imperial crown in its armorial bearings in 
 1490. The front pediment contains an allegorical group, 
 representing Amsterdam : on the border are statues of 
 Peace, Providence and Justice. The pediment at the 
 back of the Palace symbolizes Commerce; on the top 
 stands Atlas bearing the globe on his shoulders ; close 
 by are statues of Watchfulness and Temperance. The 
 building was used as a Town-hall till 1808. The principal 
 apartments are : the Council Chamber, the Audience 
 Chamber, the Throne-room, the Ball-room, formerly the 
 Salle-des-pas-perdus. 
 
 Clubs: Zeemanshoop, (Seaman's Hope), and the Groote 
 Club (Large Club) are on the corners, Doctrina et 
 Amicitia near one end of the 
 Kalverstraat : 
 
 Burger Weeshuis (Municipal Orphan- Asylum), most curi- 
 ous to see, (interesting old regents room), Nieuwe Zijds 
 Kapel (Church), built in commemoration of the miracle 
 which happened on that spot 1345 Bagijuhof (a court) 
 with the oldest wooden house. 
 
 On the right: Heiligenweg, House of Detention; 
 Singel, on the right the University Library. Where in 
 honor of the American visitors an exposition will be held 
 of all books, maps, portraits concerning to the early 
 history of America (admission free). Koningsplein, the 
 bridge across the Heerengracht leads into the Leid- 
 schestraat. 
 
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 Prinsengracht : (on the right) the Palais van Justitie. 
 (Law courts). - 
 
 Leidsche Plein : (on the right) the Stadsschouwburg 
 (Municipal Theatre) on the left the „G}ymnasium" (Latin 
 School), the building of the free Church, Vondelstraat. 
 On the left : the Grirls' Orphan-Asylum of the Dutch Re- 
 formed Church. At the end of the Vondelstraat, the 
 Roman Catholic Church Sacred Heart of Jesus. 
 
 In the Vossiusstraat : the ,,Instituut tot onderwys 
 van Blinden" (Institution for teaching the Blind), 
 opened in October 1885. 
 Yondelpark planned in 1865 and picturesquely laid out by 
 a few distinguished citizens ; it now covers 100 acres ; 
 statute of Vondel by Royer, Pavilion (restaurant), dairy. 
 
 Along the Overtoom Canal; Dutch Riding School. 
 (Hollandsche Manege) ; on the left : the Extramural Hos- 
 pital, Return through the Vondelpark ; Stadhouderskade. 
 The Museum, built by the architect Cui jpers ; collection of 
 paintings of the old Dutch and Flemish masters; cabinet 
 of prints and drawings, all formerly in the celebrated 
 „Trippenhuis" ; 
 
 Remarkable are : Rembrandts' masterpieces : the Nightwateh ,,De 
 Staalmeesters", and the widow of admiraal Swartenhond ; van 
 der Heists' , , Sehnttersmaaltyd", and Roelof Bickers Company, and 
 several other paintings of the celebrated masters. All the large 
 pictures with portraits of Sehutters (civic guards) belong to the 
 city of Amsterdam. 
 
 Collection of modern paintings, (formerly in the Pavilion 
 ,,'Welgelegen", at Haarlem) ; Museum van der Hoop (old 
 dutch school pictures) ; Collection of modern paintings, 
 planed in 1874 by C. P. van Eeghen Esq., loan collection 
 of paintings; Museum of antiquities (Entrance on the 
 left) antiquities, and works of art partly belonging to the 
 city Amsterdam and to the Royal Antiquarian Society, 
 
 Rich collection of silver and gold works, pottery, wood carvings etc. 
 This Museum has partly been classified in rooms representing the 
 period, to which the articles belong. 
 
 Museum of the Navy ; 
 
 Remarkable is a part of ,,the Royal Charles " victoriously brought 
 to Holland by admiral de Ruyter after the defeat of the english fleet 
 near Chatham. 
 
 Collection of Plaster Models ; 
 
 Close by : Asylum for Blind Adults and Royal Academy 
 of Plastic Arts. 
 
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 On the left : Frederiks Plein ; Paleis van Volksvlijt (Indus- 
 trial Palace) planned by Dr. Sarpathi, built by C. Outs- 
 hoorn. At present generally used for concerts, ballets, etc. 
 
 On the left : Weteringschans ; Public Playground for 
 Children ; Mechanics' School ; the Free Church (Vrije 
 Gemeente) ; new Grymnasium (Latin School) ; Industrial 
 School for (jirls ; the Prison (for solitary confinement 
 only). 
 
 Return by the Leidsehe Straat to the Heerengracht : on the 
 corner of the Speigelstraat and Heerengracht, the Nether- 
 lands Trading Society (Handelmaatschappij); at n°. 511 
 Heerengracht Museum Six, (to be seen by permission). 
 
 Celebrated portraits of the Burgomaster Jan Six and his mother, by 
 Eembrandt, and other paintings. 
 
 On the Keizersgracht at n°. 609, close to the Vijzelstraat 
 Museum Fodor, (fee, week-days, 50 cts. ; Sundays, 25 
 ets. ; no admission on Tuesdays) paintings of modern 
 Dutch and French schools, etc., bequeathed to the city by 
 C. J. Fodor, a wealthy merchant, who died 24 Dec, 1860. 
 
 Vijzelstraat to Sophia Plein : Munttoren, a tower dating 
 from 17* century ; seat of the Royal Antiquarian Society. 
 
 On the Rokin : The Bank of Netherlands ; almost opposite 
 to it: Leesmuseum (Reading Rooms), open to the mem- 
 bers of the Holland Society. 
 
 On the right : Doelenstraat to Kloveniersburgwal : Oude- 
 manhuispoort, sculpture by Ziesenis : The University ; 
 Tower of the Southern Church (Zuider Kerk). Nieuwe 
 Markt, with the old St. Anthonisgate late 15"" century. 
 Hall of the Masons' Guild, now Fire Brigade Station, 
 but to be altered for the purpose of receiving the archives 
 of the City. Fish Market. 
 
 Along St. Antonie-breestraat (2""^ house from the bridge 
 Rembrandt's dwelling). Jews' Quarter. Roman Catholic 
 Church Moses and Aaron, Synagogues, most interest- 
 ing is the old Portugese Hebrew Synagogue built 200 
 years ago in the figure of Solomon's temple, (with fine 
 silverworks). Diamond Cutting Factories, of Boas 
 Brothers, of A. E. Daniels & Son and of J. S. Metz, are 
 all close by. Most interresting for visitors is that of Mr. 
 Daniels (Zwanenburgerstraat). 
 
 Following the Muiderstraat to the Plantage, Hortus 
 Botanicus (Botanical Gardens), Theatres of G. Prot and 
 Son, of the Park, and of van Lier. 
 
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 Zoological Gardens (Natura Artis Magistra) admission free 
 for the members of the Holland Society. Founded in 
 1838 by Dr. Gr. F. "Westerman. Covers an area of upwards 
 of 20 acres. "World-renowned collection of animals, birds, 
 plants, etc. Ethnological Museum. Japanese Museum. 
 Aqnariiuu (admission : visitors to Zoological Gardens, 25 
 cts. ; other visitors, 50 cts.) Consists of tanks containing 
 about 1000 cubic metres of fresh-water and sea-water. 
 The sea-water is brought from Ymuiden, in a steamer 
 built for the purpose. The upper tanks have a capacity 
 of 230,000 liters. Behind the plate-glass, forming the 
 front of the tanks, are specimens of the teeming popula- 
 lation of sea and river. 
 
 Opposite the Zoological Gardens is the Panorama ; admis- 
 sion, 50 cts.) The building has an Art-Room for the Exhi- 
 bition of paintings and sculpture. 
 
 Leaving the Panorama the way leads past the St. Jacobs- 
 Gesticht, an asylum for aged poor Roman Catholics, to 
 the Muiderpoort (Muiden-Gate), the only remaining gate 
 of the former century. Outside the gate is the Ooster- 
 l)egraafplaats (Eastern Cemetery). 
 
 To the left in the Linaeusstraat are the famous Nursery- 
 Grounds of the firm of Groenewegen & Co. 
 
 Somewhat further is the Rechthuls of Watergraaf smeer, (at 
 present a coffee-house), and the Horticultural School ^Lin- 
 naeus", where instruction is given in gardening and botany, 
 and whence the city draws its supply of trees and plants. 
 
 Returning to the Muiderpoort one sees on the right the 
 Infantry barracks Oranje Nassau. Passing through 
 the gate and turning to the left into the Sarphatistraat 
 one finds the following buildings : The Cavalry Bar- 
 racks, the Army stores, the Military Hospital, the 
 Children's Hospital, and close by, on the right, in the 
 Roetersstraat, the Main Office and Stables of the Amster- 
 dam Omnibus Co. 
 
 Amstel. Amstel-Hotel. The bridge called „Hoogesluis", 
 lately rebuilt. 
 
 Binnen-Amstel (Eastside), Prinsengraeht : Timber-Tard 
 of the City. Circus Carre. 
 
 Weesper-Kerkstraat : the French Riding School, the 
 Workhouse (founded 130 years ago), the Hebrew Alms 
 Houses, the Hebrew Hospital, and the Alms Houses of 
 the Evangelical Lutheran Congregation. 
 
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 Keizersgracht to the Binnen-Amstel (Eastside) : Asylum 
 for the aged poor of the Dutch Reformed Church, an 
 institution of more than 200 years standing. 
 
 Zwanenburgerstraat : Diamond Cutting Factories ; the 
 Hebrew Orphan- Asylum for boys ; that for girls is in 
 the Rapenburgerstraat ; Orphan- Asylum of the Dutch 
 Reformed Church in course of reconstruction. 
 
 Following the Staalstraat and Kloveniersburgwal one comes 
 to the Rembrandtsplein (Statue of Rembrandt) and 
 Thorbeckeplein (Statue of Thorbecke). 
 
 Amstelstraat : Salon des Vari^t^s (theatre), Grand Theatre 
 van Lier, Panopticum (admission, 50 cts.), a successful 
 imitation of Madame Tussaud's waxworks, but more par- 
 ticularly of the „Theatre Castran," Berlin, which latter 
 artist is the talented maker of about 200 of the wax- works 
 exhibited: the likenesses are often striking, and the 
 dresses sumptuous. See especially the group of the 
 Royal Family, the Marken-chamber, from ten Kate, 
 the „Botermarkt," etc. 
 
 Crossing the new Blauwbrug, follow the Nieuwe Heeren- 
 gracht to the Entrep6t-dok (Custom House and bonded 
 warehouse). Kadijksplein: Zeeraanshuis (Sailors' Home), 
 founded in 1856. 
 
 's Rijks Werf (Royal Navy- Yard) (no fixed gratuity) : 
 covers upwards of 32 acres of ground. Stocks for four- 
 teen large vessels. The crane has a lifting power of 
 10000 kilos (about 90 tons). Docks for the construction 
 of iron-clad vessels, etc. Ask for the „Koningsloep" 
 (King's Sloop). 
 
 Koninklljke Fabriek van Stoom- en andere werktuigen 
 (Engineering Works). 
 
 Return to Prins Hendrik-kade. Training Ship „ De Was- 
 senaer" (shown on application). Kweekschool voor de 
 Zeevaart (Training School for the Mercantile Navy), 
 founded in 1785 (rebuilt in 1880) to commemorate the 
 naval battle off Doggersbank, allegorically represented on 
 the front ; contains, among other things, many relies, busts 
 and curiosities of celebrated Dutch naval commanders. 
 
 On the Prins Hendrik Kade are also the ofi&ces of the Royal 
 Steam Navigation Co., of the Netherlands and of the 
 Steam Navigation Co., „Nederland". 
 
 To the right: the Oosterdok (Eastern docks), and the 
 Handelskade (Commercial Quay) ; the latter is one of the 
 
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 most important works undertaken of recent years by tlie 
 Municipal Grovernment; the inner harbor covers 1200 
 metres ; tbe quay is 1882 metres in length with an 80 ton 
 steam-crane, etc. 
 
 Returning to the Prins HendrLkkade and passing between 
 the „Sehreierstoren" (Weepers' Tower) from XV* century 
 and the ^Semaphore" Office, which is a signal station in 
 connection with Ymuiden, one approaches the new Cen- 
 tral Terminus; going under the Railway Bridge one 
 reaches the de Ruijterkade, where the coffee-houses offer 
 an agreable restingplace, and whence one enjoys a fine 
 view of the river Y, with its busy and interesting scenery. 
 
 On the opposite side of the river : Koninginne-dok (Queen's 
 Dock), Petroleum Warehouses, Tolhuis. 
 
 Haarlemmerdijk, Willemspoort : Gas Works of the Im- 
 perial Continental Gras-Association, supplies gas from 
 1 Nov. 1885. 
 
 Marnixkade : Tooneelschool (Dramatic School). 
 
 Westertoren (Tower of the West Church), 85 metres high. 
 Church, a master-piece of style and sculpture by de 
 Keyser; decorative painting by de Lairesse. 
 
 Keizersgracht : „Huis met de hoof den" (House with the 
 Heads), at present the Commercial School (Handels- 
 school). Schoolmuseum (admission, 25 cts.) 
 
 Heerengracht : near the Leliegracht a picturesque house in 
 the old dutch style of the beginning XVII* century. 
 
 This house built by the rich merchant Bartolotti, as well as the 
 ,,huis met de Hoof den" built by de Geer, may give an idea of 
 the dwellings of wealthy inhabitants of Amsterdam at that time. 
 
 Keizersgracht near the Wolvenstraat : Felix Meritis, Con- 
 cert Hall, collection of physical and mathematical Instru- 
 ments. 
 
 Follow the Keizersgracht to the Leidschestraat, hence to 
 the Koningsplein and Rokin : Arti et Amicitiae (Admis- 
 sion, 25 or 50 cts.) a society of artists founded in 1839 ; see 
 the Historical Gallery ; at times, collections of paintings 
 and works of art. 
 
 The bridge opposite leads to the Bank of Netherlands 
 already mentioned, and to the Hospital, or on turning to 
 the left to the Nes (which, with the Warmoesstraat, forms 
 the oldest part of the city). Tivoli Theatre. Through 
 Lombardsteeg (The Lombard) to O. Z. Voorburgwal; 
 
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 City Hall (Raadhuis), contains some paintings antiqui- 
 ties, the city archives (Municipal Statute books dating 
 from 1465, Municipal Budgets from 1531, Books of 
 Resolutions from 1536), Collection of manuscripts, coins, 
 etc., etc. 
 
 The Burgomasters-cabinet to be seen before 10 o'clock with the 
 master piece of Ferdinand Bol, pictures of van der Heist, Lin- 
 gelbach, Zaenredam etc. The Burgomasters-waiting-room with 
 portrait of Maria de Medicis by Honthorst and the armorial 
 bearings of Biirgom asters and Aldermen. The assemblyhall of 
 the common council with the portraits of the kings, and paint- 
 ings of J. and A. Backer, N. Elias, etc. In another room : the 
 Dam as it was in 1604, painted by Adiiaen van Nieuwland. 
 
 To show the American visitors the growth of the city a col- 
 lection of old drawings and engravings concerning Am- 
 sterdam and its principal buildiags has now been laid for 
 inspection. 
 
 Carriage Drive. 
 
 Dam, Kalverstraat, Reguliersbreestraat, Rembrandtsplein, 
 Utrechtschestraat, Frederiksplein, Hoogesluis, Sarphati- 
 straat, Muiderpoort, the so called Nieuwe Wijk (New 
 Quarter), Oostenburgergracht, Prins Hendrikkade, Wes- 
 terhoofd, Nieuwendijk, Paleisstraat, Heerengracht, Leid- 
 schestraat, Vondelpark, Stadhouderskade, Amsteldijk, 
 return to the Binnen-Amstel, Kerkstraat, Plantage, 
 Muiderstraat, the so called Jodenkwartier (Hebrew 
 Quarter), Nieuwmarkt, Kloveniersburgwal, Doelenstraat, 
 Rokin, Dam. 
 
 Trips in the Ticinity. 
 
 Het Kalfje, by carriage, through the Vondelpark, along 
 the shady Amstelveenschen Weg, Kalfjeslaan, and pic- 
 turesque Utrechtschezijde (left side of the river) (Time : 2 
 hours). 
 
 Tolhuis on the river Y (ferryboat, 5 cts.). Frequent 
 concerts, etc. 
 
 Sluices of Schellingwoude, Zeeburg, (by steamer), fine 
 view of the City, the Harbour, and the Zuiderzee. At Zee- 
 burg is the Pumping Station, with engines of 240 horse- 
 power ; for introducing fresh water into the canals of 
 Amsterdam. 
 
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 Cafe Berebijt and cafe Maas on the river Amstel (by- 
 steamer). 
 
 Ouderkerk and other Tillages along the river Amstel, 
 by steamer. 
 
 Muiden, castle of Muiden, Muiderberg (bathing place, the 
 most remarkable echo of the world, fine site) Naarden, 
 etc., by Gooische Steamtram, which has two lines : Am- 
 sterdam to Laren, and Huizen to HUversum — the first 
 line is divided into four sections, viz., Amsterdam to 
 Diembrug ; Diembrug to Muiden ; Muiden to Naarden, 
 or Muiden — Muiderberg ; Naarden to Laren — the second 
 line is divided into two sections, viz., Huizen to Laren, 
 and Laren to Hilversum. Fare : 15 cts. per section, 
 tickets to be taken beforehand; otherwise, 20 cts. per 
 section. Ticket-ofQce at the Station of the Rhenish Rail- 
 way Co. (at the railing). 
 
 Sloterdijk by Steam-tram at Willemspoort, 15 cts. per ride ; 
 if tickets are obtained beforehand, 12^ cts. 
 
 Haarlemmermeer, by carriage along the Overtoom, Sloo- 
 terweg, Slooten, part of Haarlemmermeer, return along 
 the canal and to the „Dubbele Buurt", and then through 
 the Vondelpark (Time : 2 hours). 
 
 Per Steamer, at the Y (Westerhoofd) to Nieuwendam, 
 Buiksloot, Purmerend, along the „Zaanstreek" (Zaan- 
 district), etc. 
 
 Haarlem, Zaandam, Alkmaar, etc., by Rail from the 
 Central Station, 
 
 Marken, a fishing village in the Zuiderzee, per steamer, 
 daily. 
 
 Zandvoort (one hour by rail), much frequented bathing- 
 place, fine arcade, villas, tram, Bath-Hotel with „Kurzaal". 
 
 Wyk aan Zee (one hotir's journey : per rail to Beverwijk, 
 and then per steam-tram), a quiet bathing-place. 
 
 IJmuiden (by rail, or by steamer of Goedkoop Bros.) 
 Shortest route from Amsterdam to the North-sea. The 
 harbor was projected by the engineer Conrad, and exe- 
 cuted under the supervision of the Dutch engineer Dirks, 
 and of Sir John Hawkshaw; the work was begun in 
 1865, and completed in seven years. The place though 
 small, is of great importance on account of its excellent 
 harbour : it contains a couple of churches, the Hotel 
 „Willem Barents" etc. 
 
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 everything went all right. The reception was most cordial; 
 a great deal of trouble has been taken for it and we appreciate 
 it highly." 
 
 "Has The Holland Society many members and has it any 
 connection with the ' Dutch Club' at New-York?" 
 
 "We have over six hundred members, all descen- 
 dants of those Dutchmen who first settled on that spot 
 where New- York now stands. They all belong to the 
 most respected New-York families. No native-born Dutch- 
 man can become a member of the Society. I do not 
 know what the ' Dutch Club ' is. "We have no connection 
 with it." 
 
 "And what is the object of your coming to HoUand?" 
 asked our reporter. 
 
 " Only an act of piety, a desire to visit the country and 
 the people from which we are descendants ; only that and 
 nothing else." 
 
 " I have, however, heard it whispered around," our re- 
 porter ventured to say, " that your coming has something 
 to do with the Holland Trust Company, just Kke the coming 
 of the Transvaalers, not long ago, had to do with their 
 railways." 
 
 " You will do me a great favor," said Mr. Van Siclen, " to 
 contradict this in your paper in the strongest terms. I re- 
 peat, we have no ulterior objects; we come for pleasure only, 
 to view the land of our forefathers. Besides, the members 
 of our Society are all well-to-do, and do not solicit any 
 money here for any enterprise." 
 
 We do not doubt for a moment that the members and 
 their ladies will be hospitably received everywhere, and 
 proof given them that their ancestors' virtue, hospitality, is 
 stni Holland's chief virtue. 
 
 At three o'clock in the afternoon came our first 
 formal reception in the imposing old Tovni Hall. 
 Under the guidance of Mr. Cazaux van Staphorst, Mr. 
 de Roever, city archivist, and Mr. Le JoUe, general 
 secretary, we were ushered in through many reception 
 rooms filled with attendants in liveries, into a coun- 
 cil room, or main room of the hall, where we were 
 received by Mr. Gr. van Tienhoven, the Burgo- 
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 master of Amsterdam, on behalf of the municipality. 
 He is a tall, dark-complexioned man of striking and 
 impressive featm-es, intellectual in appearance, and 
 of pleasing address. He made an excellent speech of 
 welcome in English, and in conclusion invited om* 
 attention to the collection, then displayed on tables 
 set for the pm'pose, of antiquities relating to the con- 
 nection between Old Amsterdam and New Amster- 
 dam, and all taken from the archives of the city. To 
 this address Mr. Van Siclen made a short and appro- 
 priate answer, and the " eerewijn," " wine of honor " 
 (champagne), an indispensable requisite to all such 
 ceremonies, was passed by the attendants. We then 
 turned our attention to the collection. Here were 
 prints, documents, maps, and books of the XVth, 
 XVIth and XVIIth centuries, illustrating all that 
 was then known of the history and growth of the 
 New World. Among them were letters and other 
 documents from the early settlers in New Amster- 
 dam, and many things of interest to the antiquarian 
 and historian. Unfortunately our time was too short 
 to fully appreciate the treasures spread before us. 
 Our attention was attracted by the quaint pictures 
 on the walls, among them portraits of regents of 
 the old almshouses and hospitals. These contained 
 several names familiar to us in the ranks of the 
 Society. 
 
 In the evening we were invited to a full dress re- 
 ception at the Amstel hotel, the finest in Holland. 
 The reception was held in a beautiful suite of rooms, 
 for some years occupied by the Empress Eugenie. 
 These were liberally decorated with the national 
 colors of Holland and America, blended in a most 
 tasteful manner, and the orange above all. The 
 
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 flowers were beautiful and abundant, and there was 
 fine music in attendance. Here we met many of the 
 ladies and gentlemen of Amsterdam, and took great 
 pleasure also in greeting Eobert B. Eoosevelt, the 
 United States Minister to Holland, and a member 
 of our Society, who came from the Hague to join in 
 our welcome. During the evening an eloquent and 
 graceful speech of welcome on behalf of the city and 
 country was made by Professor J. M. C. Asser, 
 counsel to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Advocate 
 and Professor of Law at the University of Amsterdam. 
 This was in English, and a most finished production in 
 style and delivery. This was appropriately responded 
 to by Van Siclen, and the warmth of our welcome 
 caused his enthusiastic nature to overflow with ex- 
 pressions of gratitude and affection, to which we all 
 gave a most cordial assent. An elegant collation was 
 served, and the hours were spent in social intercourse. 
 There was something of shyness on the part of our 
 Dutch friends in making advances, and something 
 of unusual timidity on ours in endeavoring to express 
 our sentiments, but the genuine feeling of hospitality 
 on the one part and of warm appreciation on the 
 other was unmistakably present. After the reception, 
 the party broke up into little groups, and under the 
 guidance of their new found friends saw something 
 of the evening life of Amsterdam. The historian can 
 only vouch for one party, who were pleasantly enter- 
 tained at the Cafe Volksvlight, and afterwards at the 
 Cafe Krasnapolski, which is said to be the largest 
 beer garden in Europe. In- this way we saw some- 
 thing of the social life of Amsterdam, and we were 
 most pleasantly impressed with its brightness and 
 with the moderation displayed. 
 
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 A fuller account of this elegant reception is trans- 
 lated from the Amsterdamsche Courant and Handels- 
 hlad and from the Nieuws van den Dag of August 
 13, 1888: 
 
 The Reception in the Amstel Hotel. — In a worthy 
 manner — a manner showing not only good taste, but also 
 that hospitality of which we Hollanders are always boasting 
 (and, as appeared again, not without cause) — the Americans 
 who are within our walls were welcomed last night by the 
 committee formed for that purpose. 
 
 The large hall on the Weesper side of the Amstel Hotel was 
 profusely decorated. On entering the hall one faced a bust 
 of William the Silent, Father of his Country, surrounded by 
 green foliage, and over it along the ceiling the flags of the 
 tlnited States and Holland and Orange were to be seen. In 
 the four corners of the hall stood flowers and plants, and 
 in two corners were placed the Dutch and United States 
 coats of arms. Hidden by plants, a band of music was 
 placed at the right of the hall. 
 
 The visitors were received by the members of the com- 
 mittee, whil^e we remarked among those present the Wet- 
 houders, Driessen, Coninck, Westenberg and Pet, Dr. "Wes- 
 terman, and about 10 o'clock the Mayor, Mr. Gr. van 
 Tienhoven, made his appearance. 
 
 "When, about 9 o'clock, aU were present and the Dutch 
 and American national airs had been played, Mr. Cazaus van 
 Staphorst, member of the committee, addressed the foreign- 
 ers in English. He said that it gave the committee pleasure 
 to be allowed to receive the Americans in a city and a 
 country for which they had so often shown their appreci- 
 ation, in a country which is of both the cradle. It is, he 
 continued, not customary in this city to present foreigners 
 with the freedom of it, and we can therefore offer you only 
 the hand of friendship and hope that this tie shall continue 
 to grow stronger, and that, when you have retui-ned to 
 your country, you will have carried from here most pleas- 
 ant recollections. Mr. Geo. W. Van Siclen, Secretary of The 
 Holland Society, was the next speaker : 
 
 " Members of the Committee, Citizens of Amsterdam, I 
 value it highly that I have the honor and privilege, for us 
 aU, to be the interpreter of our gratitude for all your 
 
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 friendship and hospitality on our arrival here. The visit 
 "we pay here is a visit of piety for our ancestors. We come 
 from a land rich in gold, silver, corn, wine and oil, but not 
 these articles of commerce bind us to you ; but our country, 
 where principles of liberty reign, free instruction, free re- 
 ligion — that country was founded upon these principles by 
 people coming from this place. 
 
 " Here," the speaker continued, " on this sacred soil once 
 stood the houses of our fathers, here floated once our na- 
 tional colors, for the colors of Holland's flag are our colors 
 also, and this union of colors," he hoped, "would always be 
 the symbol of the union between the two nations." It goes 
 without saying that these words coming from the heart, 
 and spoken with force and fervor, were applauded to the 
 echo. 
 
 Professor Asser was the next speaker. Calling attention 
 to the difference in form of government between America 
 and the Netherlands, he said that this did not prevent both 
 nations from feeling themselves descendants from the same 
 forefathers. At an early date Amsterdam had wanted to 
 establish relations of friendship and of commerce with the 
 brethren across the ocean ; and in a humorous and witty 
 manner he related the fact that, when the American people 
 was waging the War of Independence against England, it 
 was the city government of Amsterdam which wanted to 
 make a treaty of commerce with the CongTess of the young 
 Republic. Now, and things went none the worse for it, 
 such treaties are concluded by the mutual ambassadors, to 
 whom this task may safely be entrusted. He then ad- 
 dressed, while those present cheered, the newly appointed 
 minister of the United States to our Government, Mr. 
 Roosevelt, in order to congratulate him with his appoint- 
 ment and thank him for his presence on this occasion. 
 
 The speaker said it had struck him, while not long ago 
 reading a report of the Society's annual meeting, that a 
 toast had been proposed to the memory of William the 
 Silent and another to that of John van Oldenbarneveldt, 
 men to whom we owe so much. He further recalled how 
 from that family of Orange our King had come, a King 
 who loves his country and his people above all. 
 
 Professor Asser concluded his stirring address with the 
 offer to conclude a treaty of cordial friendship, "for," he said, 
 " we have each a mutual respect for our traditions — we for 
 
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 those of Washington, Lincoln, Franklin, and Edison ; you 
 for our great men." Again loud applause was not lacking, 
 and the shaking of hands which followed showed plainly 
 the deep impression which these eloquent words had made 
 on all present. 
 
 We were joined on our arrival in Amsterdam by 
 Judge Henry W. Bookstaver and wife, and by Mr. 
 A. T. Clearwater, a member of the Society, and his 
 wife, so that our forces numbered about fifty during 
 the formal reception of the expedition. 
 
 Saturday morning, August 11, found the party 
 refreshed by a good night's sleep on shore, and eager 
 for new objects of interest. At 9.30, by special invi- 
 tation, the Zoological Gardens were opened to us, and 
 the president and many of its officers were in atten- 
 dance to do the honors of the place. Here is one of 
 the best collections of the kind in the world, and we 
 saw it all to the very best advantage. Each one of 
 the gentlemen connected with the institution took a 
 little group of the visitors in his charge, and every- 
 thing was most carefully explained. It is a marvel- 
 ous example of the work of one man. The director, 
 Dr. Westerman, has devoted fifty years of his life to 
 the development of this collection. He spends the 
 greater part of each day there, and has done so for 
 half a century. From small beginnings, under his 
 care and enthusiasm, it has grown to its present 
 magnificent proportions. The animals all show the 
 best of care, and the aquarium is one of the most beau- 
 tiful sights of its kind in the world. At the conclusion 
 of this interesting circuit we were received in the large 
 hall of the institution, where a luncheon was served, 
 and a very kindly speech of welcome made by the ven- 
 erable director, duly responded to by the Secretary ; 
 
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 Minister Eoosevelt was also present on this occasion, 
 and thoroughly enjoyed his pleasant surroundings. 
 
 At 2.30 in the afternoon we visited the library of 
 the University. Professor Dr. H. C. Rogge, with his 
 wife and daughters, received us with dignified and 
 charming simplicity, and we were then conducted by 
 the professor and by J. F. van Someren, Esq., through 
 its treasures. Here is a library of 150,000 volumes, 
 beautifully arranged, and rich in literary wealth. 
 Grreat care had been taken to display books, docu- 
 ments, and maps relating to our early history, and the 
 attendants were particularly attentive in pointing 
 out the choicest of the treasures. The catalogue is 
 arranged upon the card index system, and all the 
 details of the library are conducted in the same 
 manner as the best of our institutions in this coun- 
 try. We found a study room, a room devoted to 
 books of reference, and other points of a well ar- 
 ranged modern library. The historian was particu- 
 larly pleased with this hbrary from having had some 
 personal interest in a kindred institution on this side 
 of the water, and was pleased to see that the institu- 
 tions of both countries seemed conducted with the 
 same spirit of intelhgence. We noticed early atlases, 
 crude maps, the finest portraits of the Princes of 
 Orange, of the Burgomasters of Amsterdam, some 
 political cartoons of our early political history, very 
 rare now in this country, and many other objects of 
 interest. Here, as in other collections in Holland, we 
 noticed the Year Books of The Holland Society prom- 
 inently displayed. 
 
 The Nieuws van den Bag of Amsterdam, thus de- 
 scribed more fully this exhibition of historical anti- 
 quities : 
 
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 The lively interest which, our American brethren have 
 manifested, especially in this country, in everything con- 
 nected with the early history and development of the old 
 New Netherlands and New Amsterdam, has been the cause 
 that by far the greater majority of books, pamphlets, and 
 other writings relating thereto have migrated to New- 
 York years ago. Rare specimens have left Europe in that 
 way. It is evident that this fact must prove an impedi- 
 ment when an effort is made in this city to show somewhat 
 fully what has been preserved of these writings, prints, etc. 
 Special appreciation should therefore be shown for what 
 has been done in this line at our Amsterdam University 
 Library to show the American visitors what we have 
 left on this subject. 
 
 The oldest representation of the Nieuw- Amsterdam that 
 was, is taken from a painted ship-board dating from 1651 ; 
 and having belonged to the ship Lydia. This board was 
 sold to an American some years ago by the late Frederik 
 MuUer, who had an excellent photograph made of it. This 
 photograph may here be compared with two engravings, 
 one of 1685 (from a collection of town views), the other of 
 1740, from which an idea can be obtained of the growth of 
 this originally very small locality; in 1651, it was little more 
 than a fortress with a few scattered houses outside of it. 
 
 The " Beschry ving van Nieuw-Nederland," by Adrian van 
 der Donk (1655), is one of the few Dutch books treating of 
 our American colony. Dating from our century little can 
 be found except the dissertation of D. T. van Alphen about 
 the history of New Netherlands (1838), and three essays of 
 the late Utrecht Professor O. van Rees (1855, when he was 
 attorney at Amsterdam) about the history of the Dutch 
 settlements in North America. Besides there are to be seen a 
 couple of curious little books dating from the middle of the 
 17th century, one of 1656, containing the " conditions " upon 
 which, with the consent of the Burgomaster of Amsterdam, 
 one could settle in the American colonies, and one of about 
 20 years later in which different information is given about 
 the best way of colonization, as to victuals, cultivation, etc. 
 
 A great part of the collection is occupied by the maps 
 and charts of that part of the world. It is well known 
 what a degree of excellence cartography had. attained in 
 our country in the 17th century, and the specimens shown 
 here are most remarkable also in this respect. 
 
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 A clear proof of the trouble taken and sacrifices made 
 by the residents of New- York in order to get thoroughly 
 acquainted with the ancient history of their city, is given 
 by the collection of 14 splendid #0 volumes, " Documents re- 
 lating to the Colonial History of the State of New- York," also 
 by an edition in 4 volumes of the " Documentary History of 
 New- York," which last work contains the history of the 
 city only. Both have been published at government ex- 
 pense, and are embellished with maps and illustrations. 
 The " Annals of Albany " are also here. 
 
 A curious contrast with these works forms the well- 
 known " History of New- York by Diedrich Knickerbocker," 
 by "Washington Irving, in which the author ridicules the 
 affection of many of his countrymen for their Dutch de- 
 scent. The book for this reason caused quite some indig- 
 nation when it appeared, but of course it belonged in this 
 collection. The reminiscences of the church life of the 
 Dutch settlers are also represented by several works (both 
 in Dutch and English). In this connection the book about 
 " The College of William and Maiy," which was founded 
 during the reign of our Prince WiUem III., is remarkable. 
 
 That the Americans took some interest in our Dutch lit- 
 erature is shown by a translation by E. W. Hoskin, 1847, of 
 " De Pleegzoon " (" The Adopted Son ") by Van Lennep, and 
 of Toller's " Ovenwintering in Nova Zembla" (by D. van 
 Pelt, 1884). 
 
 The entire collection terminates with the head " Ameri- 
 cana," presented last year by Van Eeghen & Co. to the library 
 and mainly relating to the American War of Independence 
 in the last century, and principally consisting of books, 
 maps, caricatures, etc. 
 
 The exhibition, arranged with taste and judgment, con- 
 tains plenty of features to make a visit pleasant, not only 
 for our American brethren, who probably know much of it, 
 but also for our citizens, who can learn much that is new 
 and interesting. 
 
 In the evening, by invitation, we attended a concert 
 at the Crystal Palace, or Paleis Voor Volksvlijt, by 
 the military band of the regiment of Grrenadiers and 
 Jagers. The following was the programme : 
 
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 Zaterdag, 11 Augustus. 
 BUITENGEWOON CONCERT. 
 
 DOOE DE KON. MILIT. KAPEL VAN HET REG'm'T GRENADIERS 
 EN JAGERS. 
 
 Directeur, W. Van Der Linden. 
 
 Eerste Deel, 
 
 1. Hoelizeitsmarsch aus der Oper "Der Rattenfanger 
 
 von Hameln " V. E. Nessler. 
 
 2. Symphonie, No. 4 Niels W. Gade. 
 
 (a) Andante ; allegro, vivace e grazioso. 
 
 (6) Andante con moto. 
 
 (c) Scherzo. 
 
 {d) Finale ; allegro, molto vivace . Arr. F. Dunkler. 
 
 3. Adagio Woldemar Bargiel. 
 
 Euphonium Solo voor te dragen door den Heer 
 K. "WUeke .... Arr. W. Van Der Linden. 
 
 4. Groote Fantaisie uit de Opera " La Favorite," van 
 
 Donizetti F. Dunkler. 
 
 TwEEDE Deel. 
 
 5. Ouverture " Guillaume Tell " Rossini. 
 
 6. Concert Fantaisie uit de Opera "Rigoletto," van 
 
 Verdi. Gearrangeerd en voor dragen voor 
 Alt, Saxophone, Solo, door den . Heer L. Benard. 
 
 7. (a) Nordisches Volkslied en Brautmarsch . . Hamerik. 
 
 Arr. F. Dunkler. 
 
 (6) Ungarische Tanze, No. 5 JoH. Brahms. 
 
 Arr. W. V. D. Linden. 
 
 8. Le Carneval de Venise Fantaisie burlesque, F. Dunkler. 
 
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 The City of Amsterdam presents a most striking 
 picture of commercial activity and enterprise, and 
 gives every indication of rapid and healtMul progress. 
 
 Sunday, August 12, was clear and pleasant. It is 
 a remarkable fact that the weather during our entire 
 stay in Holland, with one trifling exception, was 
 fine. This was in striking contrast with the in- 
 clement weather that had preceded our arrival, and 
 gave occasion for many expressions of gratification 
 that even the weather department joined with the 
 rest of the country in giving us a cordial welcome. 
 
 Most of the party visited the Rijks Museum, a 
 most impressive and magnificent building. This 
 covers nearly three acres of gi"Ound, and was erected 
 in 1877-85 from the plans of P. J. H. Cuypers, and 
 is in the so-called early Dutch renaissance style. 
 Here all were impressed by the magnificent master- 
 piece of Rembrandt, the " Night Watch." Of particu- 
 lar interest to the pilgrims, were the guild and corpo- 
 ration pieces, a characteristic development of Dutch 
 art. Many of these pieces are of enormous size and 
 contain numbers of portraits, all taken from life and 
 grouped around some central object. They are seen 
 in every collection in Holland, and are mostly of the 
 XVth, XVIth, and XVIIth centuries. Under each por- 
 trait is in most cases given the name of the subject, 
 and here several of our party found their own names, 
 undoubtedly signifying either an ancestor or some 
 one of their kin. It became a favorite study for most 
 of the party to examine these pieces in order to find, 
 if possible, their own names; this study was also 
 pursued in the churches on the slabs and tombstones, 
 and in many instances the search was rewarded with 
 
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 success. Tlie Eijks Museum is certainly an edifice 
 worthy of a great city and a gi'eat people, and tlie 
 collections therein worthy of the building. 
 
 Some of the party took the opportunity to make a 
 hun'ied excui'sion to Haarlem for the sake of visiting 
 the old church, and hearing the gi'eat organ. They 
 retui'ned delighted with their trip, which was a suc- 
 cess in every way, and the historian gives it on in- 
 formation and belief that one of their chief sources of 
 pleasure was that they had the opportunity of hear- 
 ing two sermons in Dutch, of good old-fashioned 
 length, during one service. 
 
 Another little party made an excursion to Zaan- 
 dam, a thriving town of about 13,000 inhabitants, 
 and thoroughly Dutch in appearance. Here they 
 made the acquaintance of the 400 windmills which 
 extend in an almost unbroken line along the banks 
 of the Zaan. Their objective point, of coui'se, was 
 the hut of Peter the G-reat, and after several attempts 
 it was at last reached. They reveled in the historical 
 and mythical associations connected with the place 
 and gazed reverently on all they saw. They found 
 the tablets on the wall commemorating the various 
 visits of the crowned heads, and viewed picture after 
 picture of Peter the G-reat, in various costumes and 
 attitudes, until they were thoroughly imbued with the 
 idea, that certainly here was the spot where the Great 
 Czar had spent many busy and useful days. 
 
 From their various excursions the party all 
 gathered to a common center as night drew on, and 
 the evening was passed by most of them quietly at 
 the hotel. 
 
 The charities of Amsterdam, both pubhc and pri- 
 vate, are almost innumerable. Some of them are very 
 
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 ancient, and the quaint costumes of the beneficiaries, 
 still to be seen on the streets, gave rise to many in- 
 quiries from the visitors. Among these charitable in- 
 stitutions was one of especial interest to some of our 
 members, and the historian is indebted to Mr. John 
 H. Voorhees of Washington, D. C, for the following 
 account of 
 
 THE AMSTERDAM'S WELVAREN, JOHN WARDER 
 INFANT SCHOOL. 
 
 Among the many institutions of a benevolent and educa- 
 tional cliaracter, for which Amsterdam is noted, is one 
 which has a peculiar interest for American citizens in a 
 historical point of view, and for some of The Holland Society 
 because of its association with the family of one of its 
 members. 
 
 The Amsterdam's Welvaren (Amsterdam's Welfare), is 
 the name of an infant school, conducted in a quiet building 
 at No. 7 Beeren Straat in that city, where 140 poor children 
 of the neighborhood, between the ages of two and seven, 
 have free daily instruction and care, provided from a fund 
 arising in the following manner. 
 
 The Amsterdmn's Welvaren was the name of a Dutch 
 East Indiaman owned in Amsterdam, which was captured 
 in 1781 by an English vessel, the Nancij of which John 
 Warder, then of London, was part owner. Holland was 
 then in treaty alliance with our young Republic, and her 
 commerce was a prey to English privateers, and the captain 
 of the Nancy, vinknown to her owners, took out Letters 
 of Marque and made lawful prize of the Dutch ship. 
 
 John Warder soon thereafter moved to Philadelphia, 
 where his branch house operated for many years, and his 
 descendants are stiU connected with business interests in 
 this country. He was a member of the religious society of 
 Friends, and his principles forbade him to avail himself of 
 the share of the prize money which fell to him. He made 
 diligent efforts to reimburse the Dutch owners, but com- 
 plications arising from the condition of Europe, disturbed 
 
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 by tlie continental wars then raging, and the difficulty of 
 adjusting the shares of different claimants, some of whom 
 could not be found, prevented him from making the in- 
 tended restitution, and so the money was invested untU he 
 finally distributed the fund, paying principal and interest. 
 There being a small residue, this was reinvested, until in 
 1830, in conjunction with English Friends and Mr. John 
 Mollet, a Friend residing in Amsterdam, a building was 
 purchased and the present school opened in Beeren Straat 
 as narrated. This was the first infant school established in 
 Amsterdam. It is conducted by a resident female teacher 
 and four assistants, and is under the charge of a board of 
 Lady Directresses. The instruction is on the kindergarten 
 principle, and the little ones, to relieve the institution from 
 the name of a pure charity, pay each a penny a week to the 
 educational fund. 
 
 The above facts were obtained in part from a tablet in- 
 serted in the wall of the principal school-room and from one 
 of the Lady Directresses, to whom the writer is indebted 
 for many courtesies, and, in her words, 
 
 " It is hoped that the school will long remain and be to 
 the neighborhood as the name of the ship indicates, an 
 Amsterdam's Welvaren." 
 
 A little incident will illustrate the interest taken 
 by all classes in our visit. In Amsterdam, one 
 evening, a few of us strolling about came across the 
 fish market, and close by saw a building of the 
 middle ages known as St. Anthonieswegg, which we 
 found was now occupied by the fire-brigade. Our 
 curiosity was excited by the difference in the appa- 
 ratus from that used in our own country, and, as we 
 began to examine it, the men in charge asked us if 
 we were members of the American HoUand Society. 
 We replied that we were, and immediately all on 
 duty did their best to point out to us every detail of 
 the various devices, ending up by taking us to the 
 neighboring canal and showing us the fire-tug lying 
 there and its method of use. 
 
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 LEYDEN. 
 
 ON Monday, August 13, we took a special train at 
 9.10 in tlie morning for our visit to Leyden as the 
 guests of the Third of October Society. This had been 
 anticipated with great interest and will ever remain 
 a red-letter day in the memories of all who partici- 
 pated. The journey is a short one of about twenty- 
 seven miles, and on the way we passed through 
 Haarlem, only wishing that our days were long 
 enough and many enough to allow a visit to that 
 venerable town. The most of the journey lies along 
 the Polder, which Dutch enterprise has made out of 
 the old Haarlem Sea, and blooming fields and fertile 
 grounds have taken the place of the tempestuous 
 waters over which our forefathers fought the terrible 
 struggle with Spain. 
 
 On arriving at the station we found an enormous 
 crowd blocking up every approach. Cheers and 
 exclamations filled the air as the train stopped. On 
 alighting we were received in the waiting-room by 
 the chairman of the reception committee, Mr. N. 
 Brouwer, who spoke excellent English. To his 
 speech Mr. Van Siclen made one of his tasteful 
 responses, and the way was led to the carriages. 
 Here the thoughtful care which distinguished all 
 the arrangements of the various committees in Hol- 
 land manifested itself. In each carriage was placed 
 one of the ladies of the party and two of the gen- 
 tlemen, and accompanying each three was an Eng- 
 lish-speaking member of the reception committee, 
 who devoted himself during the day to the comfort 
 of the three thus placed under his care. We were 
 
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 preceded by the band of the Trained Gruards, a mili- 
 tary organization descended in a direct line from the" 
 militia of the city who so bravely held their own 
 in the memorable siege. When all had taken their 
 places in the carriages, the procession started. The 
 entire populace were on the streets in holiday attire, 
 as the day had been given up by the whole com- 
 munity to our reception. All the streets were gaily 
 decorated with flags and bunting. The cheering was 
 incessant. The crowds were so thick that it was 
 with difficulty that the procession could make its 
 way, and each one of the party of fifty Americans 
 felt that he or she was receiving such an ovation as 
 would only be given in America to the most popular 
 candidates in an exciting election. In this way, with 
 cheers of welcome on every hand, we advanced as far 
 as the students' club, "Minerva." Here we halted, 
 and the president of the club. Baron Rudolph Six, 
 advancing to the first carriage made a most charming 
 little speech of welcome in behalf of the students of 
 the University, and asked our acceptance of a me- 
 morial from the students expressive of their good-will. 
 He then asked us to join him in drinking the health 
 of the House of Orange, and at once servants bore 
 to all the carriages wine glasses filled with orange 
 bitters, and each one tied with a little bow of orange 
 ribbon. This was done with great enthusiasm, and 
 then we advanced to the Town Hall. This edifice is 
 most striking in its appearance, and is dated from 
 the close of the XVIth century. Over the side 
 entrance on the north is the celebrated inscription : 
 
 "'nae s Warte hVnger-noot gebraCht had tot de doot 
 binaest zes-dVIzent MensChen, aLs' t god den heer Ver- 
 droot gaf hi Vns Weder broot, zo VeeL WI CVnsten 
 
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 WensChen." (When the black famine had brought to the 
 death nearly six thousand persons, then God, the Lord, 
 repented of it and gave us bread again as much as we 
 could wish.) 
 
 This inscription, wMch refers to the siege of 1574, 
 is a chronogram, the capitals (among which W is 
 reckoned as two Vs) recording the date, and the 131 
 letters the number of days during which the siege 
 lasted. 
 
 Above the center of this Town Hall waved the 
 American flag. Up the lofty flight of steps we ad- 
 vanced to the Municipal Council Chamber. Here we 
 were received by the deputy mayor, Hon. M, L. J. 
 van Buttingha Wichers, and the members of the 
 Council with their old emblems of municipal author- 
 ity prominently displayed. The acting mayor then 
 made us an address in English, 
 
 At the end of his address the wine of honor was 
 presented to the guests. Mr. Van Siclen called upon 
 the Eev. Dr. Suydam to respond for the Society. He 
 did this in the following eloquent oration : 
 
 Response of Rev. J. Howard Suydam, B. D., to the 
 Address of Welcome to The Holland Society ofNew- 
 YorJc hy the Burgomaster of Leyden. 
 
 Two years since, our fellow-member, Mr. Coyken- 
 dall of Kingston, N. Y., invited The Holland Society 
 to a banquet at the Hotel Kaaterskill, situated on a 
 spur of the Catskill Mountains, 2500 feet above the 
 level of the sea. 
 
 The entertainment accorded us at that time has 
 been in constant remembrance during these days of 
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 ovation tendered us by you, our kindred of former 
 generations, — an ovation more adapted to royalty 
 than to simple citizens of a Eepublic. 
 
 Upon that occasion the pleasant duty was assigned 
 me to respond to a toast entitled, "The Relief of 
 Leyden." I concluded my remarks with a resolution 
 of cordial sympathy with the " Third of October As- 
 sociation " of this city. Although the hour was two 
 in the morning, the members all remained in the hall, 
 and by a unanimous vote the resolution was passed 
 and ordered to be cabled across the ocean to you, the 
 whole company rising to their feet in enthusiastic 
 approbation. 
 
 We little thought that so many of our number, 
 who were then together at midnight on that moun- 
 tain height, would stand here in these Lowlands of 
 Holland, face to face with those who then were so 
 prominently in our thoughts, their welcomed guests, 
 in the enjoyment of their lavish hospitality, and 
 have our hearts stirred to their depths by treading 
 the very soil upon which were enacted scenes which 
 even yet cause the pages of history to glow with 
 -living fire. 
 
 Mr. Burgomaster and gentlemen of the Committee 
 of the Third of October Association, we reciprocate 
 your kind expressions. I wish it was in my power 
 to respond in your language as clearly as you have 
 addressed us in ours. We are profoundly grateful 
 for your attentions. We are aware that it is not 
 to ourselves as individuals that these distinguished 
 honors are rendered, but to the sentiment, which, 
 as the product of the maintenance of a principle 
 two hundred years since, abides with equal strength 
 in your breasts and in ours. 
 
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 Come and visit us in America, gentlemen, accom- 
 panied by your wives and your cMldren, and permit 
 The Holland Society to endeavor to make it manifest 
 better than by words how much your present kind- 
 ness is appreciated. 
 
 I jS.nd it impossible to entertain the thought of the 
 Netherlands disassociated from the sea. Some of her 
 large and ancient cities stand where the ocean once 
 made its bed. Countless acres of her rich grazing 
 lands have been rescued from beneath the depths 
 upon which sanguinary naval battles were fought. 
 As we look and wonder and meditate, our recollec- 
 tions of the old Grrecian mythology appear dimly be- 
 fore the mental vision. 
 
 We are reminded of the story of Jason and the 
 golden fleece. We recall the composition of that 
 distinguished company in the "Argo," their long 
 absence from home, the dangers they encountered, 
 their contests, the temptations to which some in 
 their weakness yielded, but which others manfully 
 overcame ; and as the outcome, how the stolen 
 fleece was restored, — courage, perseverance, virtue, 
 and a noble purpose having gained a complete 
 triumph. 
 
 In all respects the analogy is not complete; yet 
 there are a few salient points of resemblance between 
 those adventurers on that vessel, guided by a divinity 
 which expressed itself in prophecy through the wood 
 of which its mast had been formed, as it made its 
 way through the unknown waters of the Mediterra- 
 nean, and the enterprise of our fathers, which carried 
 them from these near-at-hand ports across the At- 
 lantic to make their habitation in the wilds of North 
 America. 
 
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 It is true the golden fleece had not been stolen. 
 Our fathers were not impelled in the search by a 
 superstitious regard for a sentimental talisman. To 
 them it signified what gold can procure. It signified 
 a livelihood for themselves and their families ; it sig- 
 nified a rapidly increasing population; it signified 
 the evolution of the hamlet from the hovel, and of 
 great cities from the hamlet. It included in its 
 meaning, education, elevation, culture. It embraced 
 all that which we will be pleased to exhibit to you, 
 when you shall do us the honor to visit our shores as 
 the welcome guests of The Holland Society of New- 
 York. This is the meaning of the golden fleece for 
 which our fathers, the Dutch Argonauts of these 
 Northern Seas, made their expedition to the far-away 
 land of the setting sun. 
 
 Accuse us not of sordid avarice because we did not 
 return it, when found, to you ; we retained it. And 
 now after an absence of two hundred years we have 
 returned to make our report. 
 
 Kindred of former generations, aye, may I not say, 
 brothers of to-day, we have found the golden fleece 
 and we have made good use of it. 
 
 I wish to emphasize this, we have made good use of it, 
 and for the reason that our fathers, yours and ours, 
 taught us how to utilize what we have in possession. 
 They carried from this land the principles which con- 
 stitute the present greatness of the United States of 
 America. Few in number as were our colonial fore- 
 fathers, they have left an indelible impression upon 
 a land now comprising a population of more than 
 sixty millions of inhabitants. This was deepened and 
 expanded by those refugees for conscience' sake who 
 fled from their homes in the British Islands to take 
 
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 up their abode in this very city which now welcomes 
 us. They were men and women who sought and here 
 found freedom to worship God. What before was 
 ideal, here became a blessed experience ; and having 
 drank deeply from the virtues of the Pierean spring 
 which flowed in such volume from these Lowlands, 
 they, too, sought a permanent home in the New 
 "World. The remains of their leader, who intended 
 to follow the precious freight of the " Mayflower" and 
 the " Speedwell," now lie beneath the floor of yonder 
 cathedral, — a truly great man, removed in the prime 
 of a vigorous manhood. May I not suggest that 
 some movement be made towards erecting a suit- 
 able monument in this city to the memory of John 
 Robinson ? 
 
 The Pilgrim and the Hollander departing from 
 the same soil, and affected by the same influences, 
 planted in America the principles which they drew 
 from the hearts of their mothers, or absorbed from 
 the surrounding atmosphere. From these were born 
 the great Republic of the West, now in its maturity, 
 the wonder of the wonders of the ages. 
 
 And this reminds me of another story in the old 
 mythology, learned in youth, but which, like other 
 classics, fades away as time passes and professional 
 duties demand attention. 
 
 You will recall, with me, that one of the numerous 
 offspring of Neptune, and because of his love for 
 Terra, was Antaeos, who proved to be a savage brute 
 in the form of a man. Around his primitive dwelling 
 in the wilderness in which he dwelt were monuments 
 composed of the bones of the victims he destroyed, 
 and he claimed as his proper prey all who came 
 within his reach. 
 
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 No one was able to cope with him in personal com- 
 bat. At length Hercules made the attempt, and 
 though he often threw him to the ground, he imme- 
 diately sprang up into new life and vigor. Hercules 
 made the discovery that so long as Antaeos remained 
 in contact with the earth he was invincible. He 
 must be removed or he would retain his savage 
 nature, and continue his merciless slaughter. Her- 
 cules therefore seized him and held the monster 
 within the grasp of his mighty arms until he 
 perished. 
 
 Suggestive as is this myth of valuable lessons not 
 remote from the present occasion, I ask you to note 
 this one as illustrated in ourselves, who have gone 
 away and lived apart from our Motherland. It is 
 this: that the aspirations and achievements of our 
 Holland forefathers, inherited in our memories and 
 engraven upon our hearts, have enabled us com- 
 pletely to overcome the cruel savagery of a pioneer 
 civilization. You may see the bones of our leaders 
 which mark a ghastly pathway from the rock-bound 
 coast of New England to the golden gate of Califor- 
 nia. But you will also see at this present time that 
 there has been a Hercules engaged in mortal combat 
 with Antaeos. There has been a power exercised 
 which has lifted the great giant of slavish toil above 
 the earth and strangled him ; so that the humanities 
 are now in the ascendancy. This is the product of 
 applied science indicated by inventions, and religion, 
 compelling those comprising the race, each in the 
 other, to recognize a man. 
 
 This Herculean influence came to us largely from 
 this land. Your eighty years' struggle against un- 
 
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 just oppression and for religious liberty; and that 
 love of learning wMcli established this university of 
 Leyden, the acknowledged cradle of the sciences, 
 which to-day bestows such a wealth of benefit upon 
 mankind ; and that dogged perseverance which knew 
 no master, — not among men, not even in nature, — 
 no master but the one Grod before whom we all bend 
 in reverent homage; these memories, these aspira- 
 tions, these achievements, have possessed us, so that 
 the people of our country are living to-day, like 
 yourselves, in the upper atmosphere of the arts and 
 letters, philosophy and poetry, religion and philan- 
 thropy. 
 
 The Hercules born of science and religion has 
 conquered the savage Antaeos by lifting him above 
 the earth. 
 
 We also learned from this, your country and our 
 old home, the value of opportunity. You taught us 
 to choose the best gifts which time proffers ; and you 
 also taught us not to yield, but to conquer circum- 
 stances. 
 
 The contest with circumstances makes or destroys 
 men. In this is ever illustrated the survival of the 
 fittest. It is not the quantity but the quality of 
 what we take to ourselves that constitutes the ele- 
 ment of growth in a true man. 
 
 As it is with the individual, so is it with the multi- 
 tude which comprises a community or a nation. 
 
 Holland has given us examples of both — the choice 
 of the best, and the conquest of circumstances. 
 
 My meaning in this respect to the gifts of time is 
 forcibly expressed by our American sage, the late 
 Ralph Waldo Emerson. He says : 
 
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 Daughters of Time, the hypocritie days, 
 
 Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes, 
 
 And marching single in an endless file, 
 
 Bring diadems and faggots in their hands. 
 
 To each they offer gifts after his will, — 
 
 Bread, kingdoms, stars, and sky that holds them all. 
 
 I, in my pleached garden watched the pomp. 
 
 Forgot my morning wishes, hastily 
 
 Took a few herbs and apples, and the day 
 
 Turned and departed silent. I, too late. 
 
 Under the solemn fillet saw the scorn. 
 
 Opportunity! The right, choice of time's gifts! 
 To take the greatest and the best as we may ! She 
 presents that which will develop our manhood. Shall 
 we take only that by which we may exist ? 
 
 In our blessed book of books it is written, that be- 
 cause Solomon asked wisdom, therefore there were 
 added riches and honors. He chose the best. And 
 here, where we now stand, two hundred and fourteen 
 years ago the suffering inhabitants of this city were 
 offered a choice of what should contribute to their 
 immediate material advantage, or of that which 
 should develop their higher manhood and result in 
 greater blessing to their children. And hence your 
 University, which gave your city a world-wide 
 reputation as the Athens of modern times. You 
 taught us how to choose. Our fathers gave us as- 
 piration. The days brought their rich gifts, and 
 those who chose, enjoyed them, so that your kin- 
 dred across the sea are proud to hold up to your 
 view the product of the seed taken from hence 
 centuries agone. 
 
 Besides the best gifts of time, you also have 
 equally and signally illustrated the subjugation of 
 circumstances. 
 
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 It is often said that the mountains develop the 
 best form of manhood. An English nobleman, 
 traveling our rocky State of Vermont, in company 
 with the late ex- Vice-President of the United States, 
 Henry Wilson, asked, " What can you raise here ? " 
 To which Wilson replied, " Jfew." 
 
 It is true. The mountains develop the best form 
 of manhood, but it is because men are there com- 
 pelled to force a livelihood from an unremunerative 
 soil. 
 
 It is not necessarily the mountain, but it is the 
 contest and the triumph over difficulties of whatever 
 character that forms the best type of manhood. 
 This is here, in Holland, as it is yonder in Piedmont. 
 Those of the Netherlands can successfully cope with 
 those of the Pyrenees — Orange with Philip. Has it 
 not been demonstrated I 
 
 Aye ! It is the people who master circumstances 
 who become great, and grow on all sides of their na- 
 ture. And here we find a perpetual example in these 
 dykes and dunes, in these wondrous waterways, in 
 these flourishing cities, and in these beautiful, cleanly 
 homes. 
 
 friends, kindred, blood of our blood, we respond 
 with equal warmth to your kindly greeting, and we 
 say to you, that so long as the desire for liberty 
 shall dwell within the breasts of man anywhere 
 throughout the world ; so long as men shall cherish 
 the hope of a blessed immortality ; so long as there 
 shall be aspiration for individual elevation, and for 
 that of the race ; so long as conveniences and com- 
 forts of a material kind are desired and to be 
 secured — so long must Old Holland be cherished 
 in the memory ; so long must gratitude, like the lights 
 10 
 
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 in the temple of Vesta, burn upon the altar of hu- 
 man hearts for what she has done and for what she 
 will ever continue to do for mankind. 
 
 With all this meaning that I have endeavored to 
 include in my remarks cast into the words, and very- 
 much more, we join you in exclaiming, Oranje hoven, 
 Oranje hoven dl. 
 
 Here flowers were presented to all the ladies 
 and gentlemen. We then took a hurried glance at 
 the many antiquities in the Town Hall, and regretted 
 that time was passing so fast that we could not longer 
 enjoy their inspection. After this we went on foot 
 to the Burg, that most interesting relic of prehistoric 
 times. As we mounted to its top and looked over 
 the scene, we could not help recalling how three 
 centuries before the famine-wasted defenders of the 
 city had looked from thence in eager hope that 
 succor was at hand. Too soon we were recalled 
 from the thoughts of the past to the pleasures of the 
 present, and found our way to the Museum. There 
 again we had a most appropriate little speech of 
 welcome from Dr. W. Pleyte in behalf of the authori- 
 ties of the Museum, and a card of admission to the 
 special exhibition gotten up for us, representing the 
 ancient city of Ley den ; and one of the earliest views 
 of New Amsterdam was presented to us as a me- 
 mento of the occasion. Here again flowers were 
 given to the ladies. We then proceeded next door, 
 to one of the most magnificent exhibitions made for 
 us in Holland. A two-story house had been specially 
 procured for the occasion and cleared of its contents, 
 and all the riches of the libraries and collections of 
 Leyden, which related to the connection between 
 
AUGUST 
 
 I:7E1=,DEN^ 
 
 4888 
 
75 
 
 Leyden and America, and tlie early Dutch settle- 
 ments in North America, were laid out for our benefit, 
 with learned attendants to point out their beauties. 
 A printed book of twenty-eight pages (inserted facing 
 p. 80), containing a catalogue of the treasures, had 
 been especially prepared for the occasion. 
 
 After an inspection of these treasures, much too 
 short to either gratify our curiosity or to repay the 
 kindly zeal which had prompted their collection, we 
 were forced by the shortness of our stay to proceed 
 onward. We made a hurried visit to the University 
 and a rapid survey of the various rooms, gazing with 
 interest at the portraits of the professors in the 
 senate room, and the historical treasures there dis- 
 played. We viewed with amusement the cartoons 
 of the students on the walls of the passageways, 
 paid a brief visit to the chapel, and then made a 
 hurried inspection of the fine monument to Yande- 
 werf, the heroic burgomaster under whose lead the 
 defense of the siege was so long and successfully 
 conducted. With appetites sharpened by all we had 
 seen, we then proceeded to the most fashionable 
 restaurant in the city, where was served in a room 
 overlooking a fine garden an elegant and bounteous 
 collation. The same arrangement that had been 
 made for the carriages was here observed. Small 
 tables were set for each party, and a Dutch host 
 presided at each; a fine orchestra hidden behind 
 banks of ferns discoursed pleasing music, and every- 
 thing served to attract and cheer the somewhat 
 - fatigued visitors. Two of the courses were most 
 appropriate to the occasion, being two of those which 
 are always prepared for the banquets of the Third of 
 October Society. One was the celebrated " Hutspot." 
 
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 The tradition of this dish is, that this was the dinner 
 which was cooking for the Spaniards at the time 
 they were surprised by the attack of the relieving 
 force, and was left by the Spaniards in their flight. 
 Our genial Secretary has seen to it that all the 
 members of the Society have the recipe for this 
 famous dish. The other course was white bread, 
 on which were served delicate small herring with a 
 delicious sauce. This is always accompanied by a 
 rhyming couplet, which signifies that as long as 
 Leyden has white bread and herring she has nothing 
 to fear. After full justice had been given to the 
 luncheon and our hearts were warmed by wine, 
 Mr. Brouwer made a most interesting speech ; among 
 other things, he said : 
 
 "Yes, we now see with our own eyes that this 
 small acorn of liberty has at last brought out a great 
 oak. Has not your great historian, John Lothrop 
 Motley, made the remark that the resistance to 
 England's despotism found its example in our resist- 
 ance to Spain ? The mother has not forgotten her 
 children. Her example was the incitement to keep to 
 the front the banners of liberty. The Eepublic of 
 North America excites us. But, thank God, as honest 
 children, you have not forgotten your mother. You 
 and I and all of us feel that we are brothers and 
 sisters, descending from the same gi-and old tree of 
 past generations. May this grand oak, now in full 
 bloom in America, never cease in growth. Ladies and 
 gentlemen, please rise and diink to the toast of 
 ' The great American Eepublic : Liberty above all.' " 
 
 This was received with enthusiasm and responded 
 to by Van Siclen in Dutch. Then, as the time was 
 drawing short, we took quite along walk through the 
 
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 pleasant park to the Society Musis Sacrum, a club de- 
 lightfully situated at one end of the park, and which 
 is for the exclusive use of the members and their 
 families. Here Mr. J. J. van Masyk Huyser Yan 
 Eeenen, the president, gave a most charming little 
 address in which he said : " There may exist some dif- 
 ferences of opinion upon the matter of religion as 
 well as that of politics, yet, in the reception of 
 foreigners every one is united and in full accord 
 when it relates to guests whose breasts are decorated 
 with tokens of love for the House of Orange, and 
 whose hearts beat warmly for the same. Mutual 
 friendship already exists, but now it is made stronger 
 by a social glass and by a brotherly shaking of hands." 
 Baron von Roell, in behalf of the students of the 
 University, then presented to the ladies an American 
 flag in silk, as a token of their gallant admiration for 
 their charms. Here our choir distinguished them- 
 selves by a rendition of most of the chants of the 
 voyage, which were given with effusion, and received 
 with enthusiasm. The students responded with several 
 of their songs, and a very jolly half hour was passed. 
 Making oui' way through the crowd which had again 
 assembled outside, we entered our carriages, and 
 started on our way to the station, but were again 
 stopped in front of the students' club, and pressed to 
 take one last taste of gin as a parting shot. As we 
 reached the station we passed through ranks of the 
 students, ranged on both sides of the door, who 
 gave us a parting salutation full of warmth and feel- 
 ing. After we were within the doors, in deference to 
 the entreaties of our hosts, the choir came together 
 and sang "Yankee Doodle" as a farewell song. It 
 may here be remarked, that all through Holland, by 
 
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 bands, and on organs and church-cMmes, " Yankee 
 Doodle " was played for us on every possible occasion. 
 As tbe train moved off, Mr. Van Siclen taught us 
 a cheer for the Leyden University in the original 
 Dutch (Leve de Leidsche Universiteit), which we re- 
 peated, answering cheers and exclamations coming 
 from all sides. Thus ended one of the most memor- 
 able days of the trip, ever to be pleasantly remem- 
 bered by all who participated therein. 
 
 A better idea of the Dutch view of this magnificent 
 reception may be gained from the following trans- 
 lation from the Leyden Daily News [Leidsch Dag- 
 Uad], of August 14, 1888 : 
 
 THE VISIT OF THE AMERICAN MEMBERS (LEDEN DONA- 
 TEURS) OF THE THIRD OF OCTOBER ASSOCIATION 
 TO LEIDEN. 
 
 Early in the morning our city wore a festive aspect, flags 
 floating from all public buildings and many private resi- 
 dences in a gay manner, thanks to the strong breeze, and 
 glittering in the rays of the sun, hidden too often this 
 summer. Indeed, the sun shone on our streets and canals. 
 Our city was about to enjoy the honor to receive our breth- 
 ren from America, and if the storm and the rain of the 
 night before had caused many fears, in the morning there 
 was cause for contentment. 
 
 Not only the national tricolor, the orange, and the city 
 colors, but also the American flag (red and white stripes, 
 and silver stars) braved the gale ; among, others it adorned 
 the City Hall, the Cotton Factory, and the middle of the 
 Breestraat. When the train was due at the station, also 
 ornamented with flags, a large crowd went there to witness 
 the arrival. 
 
 These visitors, brethren from old New Amsterdam, seem- 
 ingly forgotten for two hundred years, they reappeared, 
 proud of being Hollanders. They came far from over the 
 
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 sea to see that old country from whieh their mighty republic 
 sprang ; they also came to Leiden. 
 
 And Leiden, or rather the Third of October Association, 
 received them in a worthy manner; and if they have 
 changed the tricolor for the starry banner, they have not 
 been estranged ; they are, as we are, descendants from 
 those hardy sailors of the seventeenth century, who con- 
 quered the world by courage and force ; we grasp their 
 hands as relatives. 
 
 What wonder that we recall with a feeling of sadness 
 how in 1615 the flag of the Dutch Eepublic was planted on 
 that little fortress of Manhattan Island, out of which gradu- 
 ally grew powerful New- York. Shall we not remember that 
 a Hollander, Pieter Stuyvesant, was the actual founder of 
 that prosperity? 
 
 But here they are, the long-expected guests. The 10.40 
 train stops, and the band of the National Guard plays the 
 American national air while the assembled multitude cheers. 
 
 The committee of the Third of October Association 
 escorts the guests to the first-class waiting-room, where 
 Mr. N. Brouwer, the president, addresses them in English 
 as follows : 
 
 " Ladies and Gentlemen : Allow me to say a few words 
 in the name of the Third of October Association. First, I 
 welcome you to Leiden, and want to thank you for your 
 visit to our city and to our Association. Brethren and 
 sisters, descendants of the same Watergeuzen of the Six- 
 teenth Century, separated by the Atlantic Ocean, but firmly 
 bound together by the same principles of civil and religious 
 liberty, it is for our Association a great honor to call you 
 our guests to-day. Oui" special gratitude is due the ladies 
 who will largely contribute to the pleasure of the day. Time 
 being limited we will try to make the best use possible of it, 
 and therefore I invite you to enter these carriages, which 
 will convey you to the City Hall. If in each carriage one 
 lady and two gentlemen wiU take seats, a member of our 
 committee will join you, in order that each of us may enjoy 
 your company. Allow me first to offer the ladies a small 
 bouquet, as a testimonial of our feelings. May this bou- 
 quet be the omen of a fine day." 
 
 After this the members of the reception committee, con- 
 sisting, besides the officials of the Third of October Associa- 
 
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 tion, of Mr. C. M. Dozy, City Arcliivist; P. du Rieu, jr., 
 Conservator of the Municipal Museum ; Louis D. Petit, of 
 the Royal University Library ; Dr. W. Ple^i:e, Conservator 
 of the Museum of Antiquities ; James de Fremeiy, Consul 
 of the Netherlands at San Francisco, U. S., here temporarily; 
 Dr. E. A. 0. "Was, and P. J. van Wyngaarden, officials of the 
 Third of October Association ; these gentlemen offered 
 their arms to the ladies, to escort them to the sixteen 
 cai-riages, in each of which a member of the committee 
 took a seat, and then the cavalcade went to the City HaU, 
 saluted by a large multitude with shouts and clapping of 
 hands. 
 
 In front of the Club " Minerva " a short stop was made ; 
 there they were greeted by the students, who, while the 
 music played " lo Vivat," offered them a printed document 
 and a glass of Orange bitters. The document read : 
 
 "1575—1888. 
 
 "aCADKMTA LUGDrXI-BATATORUM. 
 
 " The Students of Leiden, sympathizing with the mem- 
 bers of The Holland Society, U. S. A., but not able to receive 
 them at their club house at this moment, claim the honor 
 of offering them a glass of a national drink, ' Orange bitters,' 
 and propose the health of the King, the Queen, and the Prin- 
 cess of the Netherlands." 
 
 This curious sui'prise made a good impression and was 
 gracefully accepted. An-ived at the City Hall, they ascended 
 the high stoop and were received in the Burgomaster's 
 Chamber, by the acting Burgomaster, Mr. N. L. J. Van 
 Buttingha Wiehers, the City Secretary, and members 
 of the Council. Here, the ^dsitors being arranged in a 
 cii'cle, the acting Burgomaster thus addressed them in their 
 native tongue : 
 
 " Ladies and Gentlemen : Speaking for the city of Leiden, 
 which I have to-day the honor of representing, I welcome 
 you with all possible cordiality. I deem it a great priWlege 
 for owY city, a privilege worthy of being recorded in her 
 annals, that youi' Society accords us one day out of the few 
 it is spending in Holland. At the same time you will not 
 
THE PILGRIM FATHERS. 
 
 EXHIBITION OF DOCUMENTS 
 
 PROM 
 
 PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS AT LEIDEN, 
 
 RELATING TO THE DUTCH SETTLEMENTS 
 
 IN NORTH-AMERICA. 
 
 AUG-UST 1888. 
 
THE PILGRIM FATHERS. 
 
 EXHIBITION OF DOCUMENTS 
 
 PROM 
 
 PUBLIC AND PEIVATE COLLECTIONS AT LEIDEN, 
 
 RELATING TO THE DUTCH SETTLEMENTS 
 
 IN NOETH-AMEEICA. 
 
 AUG-UST 1888. 
 
BOEKDRUKKERIJ VAN P. W. M. TRAP, LEIDEN. 
 
Aan het einde der zestiende eeuw had het vrijheidsbe- 
 ginsel, door de hervorming in kerk en staat gewekt, reu- 
 sachtige afmetingen aangenomen, en vond zoowel zijn 
 ijverige voor- als tegenstanders. In Engeland was het 
 clericalism e onderdrukt onder de Katholieken, maar ver- 
 toonde zich krachtig in het streven naar een hervormde 
 Staatskerk onder de regeering van EUsabeth en later van 
 Jacobus. 
 
 Het vijheidsbegrip in de kerk, vond in velen ijverige 
 voorstanders. Onder de Staatskerk wilden zij onafhanke- 
 lijk blijven, en als onafhankelijken, Independenten, stelden 
 zij alles op het spel om zich die onafhankelijkheid te ver- 
 zekeren. Zij moesten het opgeven. Robert Browne, een 
 Independent, ontvlood met eenige aanhangers, en waar 
 zouden zij zich beter vestigen dan in de Nederlanden, waar 
 een vrijheidslievende bevolking den strijd met de grootste 
 mogendheden van dien tijd roemrijk voerde, en binnen de 
 muren barer steden, onder de regeering van Prins Willem 
 van Oranje, vrijheid van Godsdienst in den meest uitge- 
 breiden zin van het woord, huldigde. 
 
 Zij trokken van Norwich naar Middelburg in 1581, ver- 
 lieten weder die plaats en trachtten in 1582 in Engeland 
 nogmaals hun geluk te beproeven. In 1592 werd het hun 
 te bang, zij weken naar het Nederlandsche Naarden en gin- 
 gen in 1596 naar Amsterdam. Een strijd met den Amster- 
 damschen Smyth, deed de aaphangers van Robinson, een 
 volgeling van Browne, naar Leiden de wijk nemen. In 
 Amsterdam bleven de Baptisten, in Leiden kwamen de 
 Brownisten in 1609. Onder de regeering van Prins Maurits 
 leefden zij, en predikten hnn geloof in de woning van 
 Robinson, op het Pieterskerkplein. Sommigen meenen dat 
 zij zich aansloten bij de Engelsche Puriteinen en Presby- 
 terianen, doch dit is niet waarschijnlijk. De eersten hadden 
 hunne kerk achtereenvolgens in het Catherynen gasthuis, 
 in het Jeruzalemshof, en eindelijk in de kerk der Bagijnen, 
 waar zij tot op het begin dezer eeuw, hnn godsdienst uitoe- 
 fenden. Robinson schijnfc echter meer aan de Nederlandsch- 
 Hervormden zich te hebben aangesloten. Zijn vrienden 
 waren de Leidsche Professoren onder wien Hoornbeek 
 Hommius en Polyander een eerste plaats bekleedden. 
 
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 Het ging hun niet altijd even voorspoedig, zoodat zij 
 naar ruimer werkkring en beteren levenswelstand nitzagen. 
 Het plan rijpte bij Eobinson om naar Amerika te vertrek- 
 ken, doch in 1625 stierf hij, door alien betreurd. Zijn 
 lijkstoet naar de Pietersk^rk werd door alle professoren, 
 zoo men verteld, gevolgd, en Hoornbeek gaf omtrent hem 
 dit loffelijke getuigenis : 
 
 „Grratus nostris dum vixit fuit, et tbeologis Leidensibus 
 f amiliaris et honoratns ". 
 
 Eeu jaar voor den dood van Robinson stak reeds een der- 
 tigtal Waalscbe families, naar Amerika over, die zicb voor- 
 namelijk aan de boorden der Hudson vestigden. Hun 
 leider was Jeste de Forest, een lakenverver uit Avesnes in 
 Henegouwen, aan wien de stichting van Nieuw Amsterdam 
 moet worden toegeschreven, dat kleine begin dier wereld- 
 stad van den grootsten vrijheidsstaat der wereld, de Ver- 
 eenigde Staten. 
 
 Na Robinsons dood zijn ook de Brownisten naar Amerika 
 getrokken, alwaar zij zich op het eiland Manhattan, in den 
 mond der Hudson nederzetten. 
 
 Met ingenomenheid gaan wij na, hoe die vi'ijheid zich 
 verder ontwikkelde en nimmer zich binden liet, geen juk 
 werd meer geduld; Engeland moest eindelijk, evenals de 
 overige mogendheden, den strijd opgeven. Washingtons 
 beleid vestigde de republiek, die thans voor heel de Oude 
 wereld het toonbeeld is van ware vi*ije volksregeering. 
 
 De Holland Society herinnert zich dien strijd en die 
 zegepraal, immer dankbaar voor den oorsprong van hun 
 vrijer leven in Holland, en vele vrijheidsgezinden in Neder- 
 land begroeten de broeders met vreugde, die toonen, wat 
 men langs dezen weg in de wereld vermag te worden. Vrij- 
 heid in godsdienst, vrijheid in beginselen, vrijheid in leven 
 en streven op alle gebied. — Liberty above all ! 
 
 Leiden, 13 Aug. 1888. 
 
 Mr. CHARLES M. DOZY, Archivaris der 
 gemeente Leiden. 
 
 P. DU RIEU Jr., Conservator van het Stede- 
 lijk Museum. 
 
 LOUIS D. PETIT, Conservator aan 's Rijks 
 Universiteits Bibliotheek. 
 
 Dr. W. PLETTE, Conservator aan 's Rijks 
 Museum van Oudheden. 
 
In the latter part of the 16tli century, the ideas of liberty 
 in Chureli and State, preached by the reformation, had 
 found both zealous antagonists and protectors. 
 
 In England, where catholicisme was suppressed, elerical- 
 isme showed itself the stronger under the reign of Elisabeth 
 and that of James, in the endeavour to obtain a reformed 
 Church, so that the partisans of liberty, who strove with 
 might and main to retain their independence in the Church, 
 were forced to give up the struggle. 
 
 Robert Browne, an Independent, fled with some of his 
 followers to the Netherlands and sought a refuge among 
 the Dutch, then fighting gloriously under prince Wniiam 
 of Orange, for their liberty, and securing freedom of re- 
 ligion to all who settled within their walls. 
 
 These Independents went from Norwich to Middelbui'g 
 in 1581, left this town and returned to England in 1582, 
 but in 1592 were obliged to fly again to Holland, this time 
 to the town of Naarden. 
 
 In the year 1596 they settled in Amsterdam but a quarrel 
 with the baptist minister Smyth, caused the followers of 
 Robinson, a disciple of Browne, to go to Leiden, where 
 Robinson lived and worked for the weUfare of his commu- 
 nity during the reign of Prince Maurice. He preached in 
 his own house on the Pieterskerkhof. 
 
 It is sometimes said that the Brownists joined the Puritans 
 and Presbyterians but this is not probable. Very likely 
 Robinson had more sympathy for the Dutch Reformed 
 Church. The Puritans, first had a chapel in St. Catharine's 
 hospital, afterwards in the Jeruzalem's hof and at last in 
 the Bagijnhof, where they had their religious assemblies 
 till the beginning of this century. 
 
 As things did not always go very well with the Indepen- 
 dents, Robinson resolved to emigrate with his followers to 
 America, there to seek a better fortune, but he died in 1625, 
 regretted by every one. He was enterredin the Pieterskerk 
 and his funeral was followed by the Professors of the Lei- 
 den University, who had all been his friends, more especi- 
 ally Hommius, Polyander and Hoornbeek. Hoornbeek 
 said of him : 
 
„Grratus nostris dum vixit fuit, et theologis Leidensibus 
 familiaris et honoratus.'' 
 
 One year before bis deatb about tbirty Walloon families 
 bad already left Leyden and several of tbem bad settled on 
 tbe isle Manbattan in tbe moutb of tbe Hudson. Tbe re- 
 moval was conducted by Jesse de Forest, a Leiden dyer, 
 wbo is tbe founder of New Amsterdam, tbe origin of New- 
 York, tbe greatest town of tbe largest f reestate of tbe world, 
 tbe United States of America. 
 
 It is witb warm interest tbat we follow tbe rise of tbis 
 republic, during tbe struggle witb England and its final 
 success. 
 
 Tbe Holland Society remembers tbat struggle and victory, 
 and is tbankful to Holland, tbe birthplace of tbat liberty. 
 Therefore every Dutchman wbo loves liberty, cordially 
 greets bis American brothers, wbo prove what a people can 
 accomplish through that principle. Freedom of religion, 
 freedom of principles. — Liberty above all! 
 
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 — Urt J. Blaeu Tooneel der steden (1648). 
 
 Plan of 2Iiddelburg, entitled: MiddeTburgium fol. engraving. 
 Afbeelding van de Stad Middelbui'g in Zeeland. Nauwkeuiig zoo 
 de Publycke Gebouwen als aUe de Particuhere Huysen Kenne- 
 lijk naar 't Leven geteyckent door ComeUs Goltat. Gedruckt 
 by Johannes Heertens. fol. Kopergr. — Uit SmaUegange, Nieuwe 
 Chronyk v. Zeeland. 1696. 
 Drawing of the town of Middelburg in the province of Zeeland, 
 giving an exact picture of the public buildings and private houses 
 by Cornells Goltat. Printed by Johannes Meertens.fol. Engrav- 
 ing, — Ex SmaUegange. Nieuwe Chronyk v. Zeeland. 1696. 
 
 1592-1609. 
 Naarden. 
 
 Platte gi'ond getiteld: Naerden. fol. panteekeniug zonder jaar. 
 Waarschijnlijk voor Blaeu's Atlas op die schaal gebraeht. Nooit 
 gegraveerd. 
 
 Plan entitled: Naerden. fol. drawn with the pen not dated. Prob- 
 ably brought into this scale for Blaeu'' s Atlas. Never engraved. 
 Platte gi-ond getiteld: Naerden. 4°. Kopergr. Uit Janssonius, 
 Tooneel d. vermaarstekoop-steden. 
 Plan entitled : Naerden. ^".engraving. Ex Janssonius, Tooneel 
 d. vermaarste Jcoopsteden. 
 Platte gi-ond getiteld : Naerden. fol. Kopergi-. z. jaartal. 
 
 Plan entitled Naerden. fol. engraving not dated. 
 Gezicht op ,,Naerde"— Naarden in de 16e eeuw.— Potloodteek- 
 ening zonder naam van teekenaar of jaartal. 
 
 View of the town of „Naerde^^ — the town of Naarden in the 16ih 
 century. Pencildraicing, neither signed or dated. 
 
Gezigt op de Stad Naarden. Kopergr. H. S. (Schoute) d. et f. 
 Zonder jaar. 
 
 View of the town of Naarden. Engraving. H. S. (Schoute) d. et 
 f. not dated. 
 Gezieht op Naerden. J. Peeters del. Gr. Bouttats fee. aquaf. et 
 excudit Antverpia. 1672. 
 
 View of the town of Naerden. J. Peeters del. G. Bouttats fee. aquaf. 
 et excudit Antverpia. 1672. 
 
 Amsterdam. 
 
 Plan van Amsterdam, get.: Amsterdam vertoonde zigh aldus 
 inden Jare 1500. f ol. Kopergr. zonder naam van graveur. 
 
 Plan of the city of Amsterdam entitled : Amsterdam as it was in 
 the year 1500. fol. Copperprint, without the name of the en- 
 graver. 
 De groote Kaart van Amsterdam in 1544, van Kornelis Antonis- 
 zoon, in 12 bladen, naar het oorspronkeUjke gephotogr. en in 
 14 kleuren op Hollandsch papier gedriikt. Amsterdam 1885. 
 fol. — Behoort bij J. ter Grouw, GescMedenis van Amsterdam. 
 Kornelis Antoniszooti' s Large map of Amsterdam in 1544 in 12 
 sheets ; photographs taken from the original and printed in 14 
 colours. Amst. 1885. fol. Belonging to J. ter Gould's History of 
 Amsterdam. 
 Prospect van Amsterdam, kopergr. door Harmanus Allardus 
 Coster en Nieolaus Johannes Visscter. A° 1611. 2 bl. fol. ob- 
 long. 
 
 Prospect of Amsterdam, engraved by Harmanus Allardus Coster 
 and Nieolaus Johannes Visscher. A°. 1611. 2 sh. fol. oblong. 
 J. G. de Hoop Scheffer, De Brownisten te Amsterdam gedurende 
 den eersten tijd na hnnne vestiging, in verband met het ont- 
 staan van de Broederschap der Baptisten. — In : Versl. en 
 Meded. d. Kon. Akademie van Wetensch. te Amsterdam. Afd. 
 Letterk. II Rks dl X (1881) bl. 203 volg. 
 
 J. G. de Hoop Scheffer, The Brownists at Amsterdam during the 
 first period after their settling in that town in conneodon with the 
 foundation of the Baptist-Brotherhood. 
 
 1609-1625. 
 
 Leiden. 
 
 Portret van Prins Maurits, geschilderd door Cornells Stooter. 
 
 Portrait of Prince Maurice, by Cornelis Stooter. 
 Kaart van Holland tot aan Maas en IJssel. Teekening op perka- 
 ment d. Jaques Bureau. A° 1565. 
 
 Map of Holland as far as the Maese and the Yssel. Drawing on 
 parchment by Jaques Bureau. A. D. 1565. 
 Kaart van het Hoogheemraadschap van Rijnland en de landen 
 die op Rijnland uitwateren. Teekening d. Floris Balthazar en 
 Balthazar Florissen. A° . 1610 — 1615. 
 Map of the Hoogheemraadschap of Mynland. Draicn by Floris 
 Balthazar en Balthazar Florissen. a°. 1610 — 1615. 
 Platte grond van Leiden, get. : Waarachtige Afkunterfeitinge der 
 stad en universiteit Leiden in HoUand. Copie op perkament 
 
■> 
 
 10 
 
 d. Jacob van Werven, 1744, naar de oorspronkelijke teekening 
 vermoedelijk vervaardigd door Hans Liefrinck. 
 Plan of the town of Leiden, entitled: Exact picture of the Town 
 and University of Leiden in Holland. Copy in parchment by 
 Jacob von Werven, 1744, from the original drawing probably 
 made by Hans Liefrinck. 
 Platte grond van Leiden. Heliographische reproductie van de 
 platte grond v. Hans Liefrinck. Uitg. d. W. Pleyte, in: 
 Leyden voor 300 jaren, Leiden 1874. fol. 
 
 Plan of Leyden. Heliographical reproduction of the plan made by 
 Hans Liefrinck ed. by W. Pleyte, in : Leyden vdor 100 jaren en 
 thans. Leiden 1874. fol. 
 Plattegrond van Leyden, Anno 1600. Kopergi-. d. P. Bastius. 
 
 Plan of Leyden. A. L>. 1600. Engr. by P. Bastius. 
 Platte grond van Leiden, get. : Lugdunum Batavormn vemaculo 
 Leyden. Kopergr. nit Blaen, Atlas major. 
 Plan of the town of Leiden, entitled : Lugdunum Batavorum vema- 
 culo Leyden. From Blaeu's Atlas major. 
 Prospect van Leiden : gem. „ Leyden". Grav. d. C. J. Visscher 
 (naar C. L. Rivet). Uit Blaeu, Atlas. 
 Prospect of Leiden : Entitled Leyden. Engr, by C. J. Visscher, 
 after C. L. Rivet, Ex Blaeu's Atlas. 
 G. Sumner, Memoirs of the Pilgrims at Leyden. Cambridge 
 1845. 8°. ^ ^ 
 
 Printed in „Collections of the Massachusets Histor. Society " Vol. 
 LX 3d Ser. 
 
 Gerecbts Dagboeck gem. G. — Op fol. 33 : Versouck van wegen 
 100 persoonen in Engelandt gebooren om baer residentie bier 
 ter stede te mogen nemen, met de dispositie van die van den 
 gerecbte dato 12 febr. 1609. 
 Megister of common affairs, G. — fol. 33. Bequest oflOO.persons 
 born in England for permission to live in this town, ivith a favor- 
 able disposition of the town council dated Febr. 12th. 1609. 
 Portret van Jan van Hout, overl. 1609. Secretaris van de stad 
 Leiden. Grav. d. W. Swanenburg met onderscbrift van D. 
 H(einsius). 
 
 Portrait of Jan van Hout f 1609. Secretary of the town of Leiden. 
 
 Engr. by W. Swanenburg ivith a subscription by D. H(einsius). 
 
 Kaarten van bet bon Zevenbuizen (buurt waar J. Robinson beef t 
 
 gewoond) met pbotogr. afbeeldingen van den tegenwoordigen 
 
 toestand. 
 
 Map of the section Zevenhuisen (quarter in which J. Bobinson 
 
 lived) with a p)hotographical view of its present state. 
 
 Kaart van de Huysinge ende erve van Joban Laleyb, gelegen aen S. 
 
 Pieterskerck-boff . Teekening d. J. P. Dow, 16 January 1607. 
 
 Map of Johan LaleyKs house and garden; situated near the 
 
 cimetary of St. Peter. Drawn by J. P. Dow. 16 January 
 
 1607. 
 
 Caerte van Eenige Huysen ende Erven .... aende Westzijde 
 
 vande Heeresteegh. Item langs de zuytzijde van St. Pieters- 
 
 kerckbof , alsook Oost en West zijde van de Commandeursteegb 
 
 enz. Gedaen in Augustus des jaers 1649 door Joris Gerstecoren. 
 
 Map showing some houses and gardens . ... on the Westside of 
 
 the Heeresteegh. Idem on the southside of the cimetary of St. 
 
 Peter and also on the East- and Westside of the Commandeurs- 
 
 steegh etc Made in A ugust of the year 1649 by Joris Gerstecoren. 
 
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 Gezicht op de Pieterskerk en de Kloksteeg met het Pesynshof. 
 Teekening in 0. I. inkt. 
 
 View of the Church of St, Peter and the Kloksteeg tvith the 
 
 Bagynhof. Drawing. 
 
 Aa, A. J. van der, BiogTaphisch woordenboek der Nederlanden 
 
 .... voortgezet door K. J. R. van Harderwijk en Dr. Gr. 
 
 D. J. Schotel. 16e Deel. Haarlem. 1874. S^o. — Bl. 378 Levens- 
 
 scliets van John Robinson. 
 
 Aa, A. J. van der, Biographical dictionary of the Netherlands, 
 
 .... continued hy K, J, JR. van Harderwijk and Dr. G. 
 
 D. J. Schotel. vol, 16. Haarlem 1874. S^o, — Pag. 378 
 
 Biography of John Robinson. 
 
 N. C. Kist, Jobn Robinson, predikant der Leidsche Brownisten- 
 
 Gemeente, en de moederkerk der Engelsche Indepedenten en 
 
 grondlegster der Kolonie Plymouth in Noord-Amerika. — Uit 
 
 Nieuw Archief voor Kerkel. Geschied. dl VIII. 
 
 N. C. Kist, John Robinson, minister of the Leyden Brownist-com- 
 munity, the mother-chwch of the English Independants who 
 occasioned the founding of the colony Plymouth in North- 
 America. 
 Portret van Prof. N. C. Kist, overl. 1859. (schrijver van John 
 Robinson, pred. der Leidsche Brownisten gemeente). Lith. 
 d. L. Springer. 
 Portrait of Prof . N. C. Kist f 1859. (Author of John Robinson, 
 pred. der Leidsche Brownisten gemeente). Lith. by L. Springer. 
 Album Studiosorum Academiae Lugduno Batavae MDLXXV- 
 MDCCCLXXV. Accedunt nomina curatorum et professorum 
 per eadem secula. Hagae Comitum. 1875. 4°. 
 Quohier van 't Hoof dgeld d'anno 1622. Bon Sevenhuysen f ol. 38 : 
 In de poort van de Engelsche kerk. Jan Robbenson predicant, 
 enz. 
 
 Quohier of the poll-tax A. D. 1622. — Section Sevenhuysen 
 fol. 38. In the gate of the English Church. John Rob- 
 benson, minister. 
 De Nederlandsche Spectator. 1865. Arnhem, 's Gravenhage 
 (1865) 4°. In n°. 35 (2 September) b. 273 een bericht 
 omtrent den gedenksteen in het Pesynshofje. 
 
 Note about the memorial stone in the Pesynshofje in tlie Neder- 
 landsche Spectator 1865 Sept. 2d. N°. 35, p. 273. 
 Portret van prof. Johannes Hoombeeck, overl. 1666, schrijver van 
 de Summa controv. rehg.; over de Brouwnisten. Grav. d. 
 Suyderhoef. 
 Portrait of Prof. Johannes Hoornbeeck. f 1666, author of 
 the Summa controv. relig.; about the Brownists. Engr. by 
 Suyderhoef. 
 Portret van denzelfden, grav. d. A. Santvoort. 
 Portrait of the same, engrav. by A. Santvoort. 
 Portret van prof. Festus Hommius, overl. 1642, regent van het 
 
 Staten college. Grav. uitgegeven door P. v. d. Aa. 
 Getuigschrift geschreven door Prof. Festus Hommius van 25 
 Januari 1622. 
 Portrait of Prof. Festus Hommius f 1642 regent of the college of 
 
 Staten. Engraving, ed. by P. v. d. Aa. 
 Testimony written by Prof. Festus Hommius dated Jan. 25 1622. 
 Portret van Prof. Polyander, gesclulderd door ? 
 Portrait of Prof. Polyander, by f 
 
12 
 
 Het S. Catliarina gasthuis, zo als het zig vcrtoonde A° 1567. 
 Gray. d. C. Brouwer (1783). uit v. Mieris, Besckr. v. Leiden. 
 The hospital of St. Catherine, as if was A. D. 1567. Engraving 
 hy C. Brouwer {1783), from v. Mieris Description of Leiden. 
 Katharyne gasthuis. Teekeuing in 0. I. inkt. 
 *S^^. Catharine''s hospital. 
 
 't St. Catharine Gasthuis. Grav. uit Rademaker, Riinland. A°. 
 1736. 
 
 Hospital of St. Catherine. Engraving from Mademalcer, Rynland 
 A°. 1736. 
 De Gasthuiskerk van binnen. (Engelsche kerk.). Teekening A°. 
 1787. 
 
 Interior of the Hospital chapel (English church). A°. 1787. 
 St. Katharyne Gasthuiskerk op de plaats te zien. Teekening 
 A°. 1787. 
 Chapel of St. Catharine's hospital, shown in its present state. 
 A°. 1787. 
 
 De gevel van het Katharyne Gasthuis op de Aalmarkt. Teeke- 
 ning A°. 1788. 
 Facade of St. Catharine's hospital on the Aalmarkt. A°. 1788. 
 Jeruzalemshof op de Kaiserstraat. Engelsche kerk tot 1644. 
 Teekening (laatst der 18e eeuw). 
 Jerusalemshof in the Kaiserstreet. English church till the year 
 1644. Drawing from the end of the 18th century. 
 Kaart van een gedeelte van het Falyde Bagijnhof achter de kerk. 
 Teekening d. J. P. Douw (+ 1610). 
 Map of a part of the Falyde Bagynhof behind the church. Drawn 
 hy J. P. Douw (+ 1610). 
 De engelsche kerk (kerk van het Falyde Bagynhof). Teekening 
 d. J. J. Bylaert (18e eeuw). 
 
 The english church (Church of the Falyde Bagynhof) drawn hy 
 J. J. Bylaert (18th century). 
 De Engelsche kerk in het Bagijnhof, van binnen. Teekening. 
 A°. 1787. 
 Interior of the English church in the Bagynhof. A. D. 1787. 
 
 Portret van Frederik Hendrik. Grav. d. J. Suyderhoef . 
 
 Portrait of PriMce Frederic Henry. Engr. hy J. Suyderhof 
 (1625-1647). 
 Portret van Prins Frederik Hendrik, geschilderd door Cornells 
 Stooter. 
 Portrait of Prince Frederik Henry, by Cornelis Stooter. 
 Prospect van Delftshaven, get. De Haven der Stadt Delft, 
 genaemt DeLfshaven. Grav. d. C. Decker. 
 Prospect of Delftshaven, marked the Port of the city of Delft. 
 Called Delftshaven. Engr. hy C. Decker. 
 Afbeelding van schepen tiit het begin der XVIIe eeuw. Grav. 
 H_ Hondius, etc. (1603). 
 
 Pictwe of ships in the beginning of the XVIIth century. Engr. 
 by H. Hondius, etc. 1603. 
 
13 
 
 Portret van Prins Willem II. Grav. d. Com. Visscher, naar 
 G. van Hondthorst. 
 Portrait of Prince William II. Engr. by Corn. Vischer, copied 
 from G. von Hondthorst. 
 Portret van Maria van Engeland. Grav. d. Com. Visscher, naar 
 G. van Hondthorst. 
 Portrait of Mary of England (Wife of William II) Engr. by 
 Corn. Visscher, copied from G. von Hondthorst. 
 Portret van Prins WUlem III (Stadhouder, Koning v. Engeland. 
 Zwarte kunst d. J. Smith. 
 
 Portrait of Prince William III (Stadtholder, King of England) 
 by J. Smith. 
 Govemour Bradford's Letter Book. — To our beloved friends Mr. 
 Williani Bradford, Mr. Isaac AHerton^ Mr. Eduard Witislow, and 
 the rest, whom they think fit to acquaiiit therewith (1624). — In : 
 Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society for 1799. 
 Vol. Ill p. 27 s. q. 
 
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 Amerika. 
 
 Aveniae, vulgo Auesnes, insigne Hannoniae Opp : ad hostiles pro- 
 pulsandos conatus, munitiss. fol. Kopergr. 
 Plan of Avesnes, the birthplace of Jesse de Forest. 
 Prospect of Avesnes. 4°. Engraving. 
 
 Gerechtsdagboeck van publieke zaken A. in dato 27 Augustus 
 1622 (vergunning aan Jesse de Forest om Waalsche Kolonis- 
 ten aan te werven). 
 Begister of State affairs A. fol. 123 August 1622 (authorisation 
 given to Jesse de Forest for enrolling ivalloon Colonists dated 
 Aug. 27, 1622. 
 Gerechtsdagboeck in dato 4 Januari 1624 (vergunning aan Gerard 
 de Forest om zijn breeder Jesse ,,laatstelijk naar West- Indie 
 vertrokken" als verver in coleuren te vervangen). 
 
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 Laet, Joa. de. Nieuwe Wereldt ofte Beschrijvinghe van West- 
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 West-Indische Comp. vergunt aen alien den ghenen, die 
 
14 
 
 eenighe Colonien in Nieu-Nederlaudt sullen planten 
 
 Amsterdam voor Mr. Jz. Brandt . . . 163°. 4°. 
 Privileges granted to all settlers in New Netherland, by the 
 Assemhhj of Nineteen of the authorized West India Com- 
 pany. Amsterdam for Mr. Js. Brandt .... 1630. 4°. 
 Vertoogh van Nien-Neder-land, wegliens de gheleghentheydt, 
 •vTuchtbaerheydt en soberen staet desselfs. (Door Adr. Van 
 der Donck c. s.) 's G-raveniiage 1650. 4°. 
 
 Account of Neic-Netherland, its situation, its fertility the miserable 
 
 state there (by Adr. van der Donck c. s.) Tlie Hague 1650. 4°. 
 
 Breeden-Raedt aen de Vereenichde Nederlandsche Pro\dntien 
 
 Gelreland, Holland, Zeeland, Wtreeht, Vriesland, Over-Yssel, 
 
 Groeningen. Gemaeckt ende gestelt uyt diverse ware en 
 
 waerachtige memorien. Door J. A. G. W. C. Antwerpen, 
 
 F. van Duynen .... 1649. 
 
 Homely Advice to the United Netherland Provinces. Gelreland, 
 
 Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Vriesland, Over Yssel, Groningen, 
 
 made of and composed from diverse true and faithful documents. 
 
 By J. A. G. W. C. Antwerp F. van Duynen . . . 1640. 4°. 
 
 Vertoogh van Nieu Nederland, and Breeden Raedt aende 
 
 Vereenichde Nederlandsche Provintien. — Two rare tracts, 
 
 printed in 1649-50, relating to the administration of affairs 
 
 in New Netherland. Translated from the Dutch by H. C. 
 
 Mm-phy. W. map. New York. 1854. 4°. 
 
 Remonstrance of New Netherland, and the occurences there. 
 
 Adi'essed to the States general of the United Netherlands, 
 
 on the 28th July, 1649, with Secretary van Tienhoven's answer. 
 
 Translated from a copy of the original Dutch Ms. by E. B. 
 
 O'CaUaghan. Albany, 1856. 4°. 
 
 Beschiij vinghe van Virginia, Nieuw Nederlandt, Nieuw Engelandt, 
 met d'eylanden Bermudes. Berbados en S. Christoffel. M. fig. 
 Amsterdam J. Hartgers. 1651. 4°. 
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 't VerheerHckte Nederland door d'Herstelde Zee vaart ; klaerlijck 
 voorgestelt, ontdeekt en aengewesen door manier van 't samen- 
 sprekinge. . . . Waar inne sy hiyden .... malkander voor- 
 houden : 1. Den slechten en soberen toestant in Koophandel 
 enz. ... 2. Aenwijsende door wat middelen dit is te herstellen. 
 .... 3. Hoe en op wat manier dese middelen moesten aange- 
 vangen ende u5i:gevoert worden .... Gedi'uckt A°. 1659. 4°. 
 Netherland glorified by the restauration of commerce ; clearly rep- 
 resented, discovered and shown by manner of a dialogue. . . . 
 In ivhich those persons represent to each other : 1. The deplorable 
 and meagre state of commerce, etc. 2. showing by what means 
 this is to be restored. ... 3. How and in what mamier these 
 means must be began and carried out. . . . Printed 1659. 4°. 
 Otto Keyens kurtzer Entwurff von Neu-Niederland und Guajana. 
 Einander entgegen gesetzt Umb den Unterscheid zwischen 
 warmen und kalten Landen herausz zu bringen und zu weisen 
 welche von beyden am fiiglichsten zu bewohnen am behende- 
 
15 
 
 sten an zu bauen und den besten Nutzen geben mogen. Denen 
 Patronen so da Colonien an zn legen gesonnen als auch denen 
 Personen und Familien die ihr Vaterland zu vergessen sich bey 
 dergleichen Bevolckerung nach fremden Kiisten und Reiclien 
 gebrauchen laszen woUen. Aus dem HoUandischen ins Hoch- 
 teutsche versetzt durch. T. R. C. S. C. S. Leipzig. Im Ritzschis- 
 chen BucWaden. 1672. 4°. 
 
 Otto Ret/en's short slceteh of New-Netherland and Guyana com- 
 pared together to obtain the difference between warm and cold 
 countries and to show which of the two is the most pleasant to 
 live in, the most capable of culture and can give the most profit to 
 those patrons who think of establishing colonies there, as also for 
 those persons and families who to forget their country, wish to 
 find a similar in foreign lands and regions. Translated from 
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 bevoUdngh : Mitsgaders eenige Requesten, Vertoogen, Deduc- 
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 tijden omtrent 't laetst van 't Jaer 1661. gepresenteert aen 
 de . . . . Burgemeesteren dezer Stede, of der zelver .... 
 Grecommitteerde, enz ... Gredrukt in 't Jaer 1662. 4°. 
 
 Short Account of Neio Netherland''s situation, virtues, natural 
 privileges and peculiar fitness for population. Together with 
 some requests, representations, deductions, etc. presented for that 
 pu/rpose by some amateurs at different times about the end of that 
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 Conditions which luere offered by the Burgomasters ofAmsterdam,to 
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 the agreement made with the West India Company. Amsterdam 
 J. Banning 1656. 4°. 
 
 Octroy, van de . . . Staten Generael, aeng. de Colonic op de "Wilde 
 
 Kust van America. Onder het beleyt van den Ridder Balthazar 
 
 Gerbier Baron Douvily. Gedruekt in 't Jaer o. H. 1659. 8°. 
 
 Patent by the States General regarding the colony of the Wild 
 
 Coast of America. Under the conduct of Chevalier Balthazar 
 
 Gerhier Baron Douvily. Printed A. D. 1609. 4°. 
 
 Kort en klaer ontwerp, dienende tot een onderling Accoort, om 
 den arbeyd, onrust en moeijelijckheyt, van Alderley-handwercx- 
 luyden te verUchten door een onderlinge Compagnie of te Volck- 
 planting (onder de proteetie vande. . . . Staten Generael. . . en 
 bysonder onder het gunstig gesag van de Achtb. Magistraten 
 der Stad Amstelredam) aen de Zuytrevier in Nieu-Neder-land 
 op te rechten. . . . t'Samen gestelt door Pieter Comehsz Plock- 
 hoy van Zierck-zee .... Amsterdam, Otto Barentsz. Smient. 
 Anno 1662. 4°. 
 A short and concise plan, intended as a mutual agreement for les- 
 sening the labour and difficulty of all kinds of artissans, by a 
 common company or colony (under the protection of the States 
 General. . . . and specially under the favourable authority of the 
 Worthshipful Magistracy of the city of Amsterdam) to be founded 
 on the South River in New Netherland ; Composed by Pieter 
 Cornelisz Plockhoyen of Zierikzee. Amsterdam, Otto Barendz, 
 Smient. Anno 1662. 4°. 
 
 Remonstrantie,Van de Bewinthebberen derNederl. West-Indische 
 Compagnie, aende d'Heeren Staten Generael over verscheydene 
 specien van Tyrannye, ende gewelt, door de Engelsche in 
 Nieuw-Nederlant, aen de Onderdanen van haer Hoogh. Mog. 
 verrecht, en hoe sy reparatie, ende Justitie versoecken. Schi- 
 
 dam P. Sanders. 1663. pP. 
 
 Remonstrance of the Governors of tite Dutch West-Indian Com- 
 pany to the States General, on several instances of tyranny and 
 violence, committed by the English in New Netherland on the 
 subjects of their H. M.; and how they beg for reparation and 
 justice. Schidam P. Sanders. . . 1663. pl°. 
 
 Naeder Klaghend Vertoogh aende . . . Staten Generael, wegens 
 de Bewindhebberen vande . . . West-Indische Comp., ter sake 
 vande onwettelijcke, ende grouwehjcke proceduren der En- 
 gelsche in Nieu-Nederlant, met versoeck van hulp enz . . . Ben- 
 effens een Clagh-brief aen de . . . Staten van de Koopluyden te 
 
17 
 
 Nantes in Vranckrijck, over . . . 't heffen vande vijftigh. stuy- 
 vers per vat, etc. . . Nae de Copije, Anno 1664, 8°. 
 Fiwther add/ress of complaint to the . . . States General ; on the 
 part of the Governors of the . . . W. I. Comp. respecting the 
 unlawful and scandalous proceedings of the English in New 
 Netherland with a petition fox help etc. . . Together with a lam- 
 entation to the States from the Merchants of Nantes in France 
 on the levying of fifty pence a vat etc. From the copy A.D. 
 1664. 8°. 
 Verdere Aenteyckeninge of Duplyque op seeckere Replyque van 
 den Heer George Downing, Extr. Envoye van den Con. van 
 Groot Brittagne, jegens de Remarques van de Gedepnteerden 
 van de . . . . Staten Generael .... Ingestelt op des selfs inge- 
 diende Memorie van den 30 Dec. 1664. 's Gravenhage, HUlebrant 
 van Wouw. .. 1666. 4°. 
 Verdere Aenteyckeninge of Duplyque op seeckere Replyque van 
 den Heer George Downing, Extr. Envoye van den Con. van 
 Groot Brittagne, jegens de Remarques van de Gedepnteerden 
 van de . . . . Staten Generaal .... Ingestelt op des selfs inge- 
 diende Memorie van den 30 Dec. 1664. Nae de Copie van 
 Hellebrandt (sic) van Wouw enz. 1666. 4°. 
 
 Further remarks orduplique to a certain replique of Mr, G. Down- 
 ing, extra Envoye from the King of Gr. Brittain, against the 
 remarks of the Deputies of the States- General on his memorial 
 presented the 20th of Dec. 1664. TJie Hague. Hill. v. Wouw 
 1666. 4°. 
 
 Sommiere-Aenteyckeninge endeDeductie ingestelt bij de Gedeput. 
 van de . . . . Staten Generael .... op de lestingediende Memo- 
 rie van den Heere G. Downing Extr. Envoye van den Coningh 
 van Gr. Britt. (9 Febr.) .... In 's Gravenhage, in de Maent 
 Febr. 1665. 4°. 
 
 Summary remarks and deductions made up iy the Deputies of the 
 States General on the last memorial presented by Mr. G. Down- 
 ing, extra EnvoyS from the King of Gi: Brittain. 9 Fehr. . . . 
 The Hague . . . Fehr. 1665. 4°. 
 Remarques succinctes et Deduction f aites par les Deputes des .... 
 Estats Generaux .... sur le dernier Memoire du S. G. Douning 
 
 (9 Febr.) A la Haye, au Mois de Feurier 1665. 4°. 
 
 O'Callagban, E. B., The register of New Netherland, 1626 to 1674. 
 
 Albany, 1865. 8°. 
 Bodel Nijenhuis, J. T., Jonas Michaehus, Eerste Predikant der 
 Nederduitsche Hervormde gemeente op Manhattans of Nieuw- 
 Amsterdam, het later New- York, in Noord-Amerika. — Uit 
 Kerkhist. Archief I. 
 Bodel Nijenhuis, J. T., Jonas Michdelius, first Minister of the 
 dutch Beformed Congregation at Neio-Amsterdam. — From 
 Kerkhist. Archief I. 
 First publication of a very interesting letter of J. Michaelius, 
 written from New- Amsterdam in 1628 and giving an account of 
 his arrival and his first adventures in his neiv home. 
 Murphy, H. C, Jakob Steendam. — Noch vaster. — A memoir of the 
 first poet in New-Netherland, with his poems descriptive of the 
 Colony. HagTie 1861. 8°. 
 With portrait of J, Steendam. 
 
 Steendam. J. J. Den Distelvink. Amsterdam 1649—50. 3 vol. 
 in 14°. 
 
 The Thistle-Finch. — Very rare collection of the poems of the First 
 
18 
 
 Poet of Neic-NetJierland. Steendam was minister of tlie Protes- 
 tant Church in New-Amsterdam and afterwards governw of the 
 Orphan-house at Baiavia. 
 
 Year Book of the Holland Society of New-York 1886—87. By 
 the Secretary (Geo. W. van Siclen). New-York 1887. W. pi. 4°. 
 
 Maaltijd van het Hollandsch Genootschap van New-York. Den 
 
 Sen van Louwmaand 1886 . . in het Hotel Brunswick. M. portr. 
 
 (New- York 1886). gr. 8°. 
 
 First Annual Dinner of the Holland Society of New-York. At the 
 
 Brunswick Hotel on the 8th of January 1886. With portrait 
 
 (New- York 18815). 8°.maj. 
 
 Map annexed to the memorial presented to the States-General of 
 the United Provinces, on the 18th of August 1616 by Gerrit 
 Jacobsz. Witsen, cum sociis, Directors of New Netherland; 
 Copied in fac-simile from the original in the national Archives 
 at the Hague ... by E. Spanier. fol Chromolith. 
 
 Map of New Netherland According to the Charters granted by the 
 States General, on the Ilth October, 1614, and 3d Juni 1621. 
 To illustrate Brodhead's History of the State of New York. 
 
 Penteekening van J. C. Wendel naar het oorspronkehjke uit 
 Brodhead's Hist, of the State of N. Y. 1863. 
 Pendrawing made by J. C. Wendel from the original in Brodheads 
 Hist, of the State of N. Y. 
 
 Kaart get.: Nova Anglia, Novum Belgium et Virginia. (Met karton 
 get.: Bermuda majori mole expressa). fol. Kopergr. — Uit J. de 
 Laet, Nieuwe wereldt. 2e druk 1630. 
 Map entitled: Nova Anglia, Novum Belgium et Virginia, fol. 
 engraving ex J. de Laet, New World. 2d edit. 1630. 
 
 Novi Belgii Novaeque Angliae nee non partis Virginiae Tabula 
 multus in locis emendata per Nicolaum Visscher. Kopergr. — 
 Met gezicht op ,,Nieuw Amsterdam op 't Eyland Manhattans. 
 Engraving. With a view of „New Amsterdam on the Island 
 Manhattans.''^ 
 
 Kaart get.; Nova Belgica sive Nieuw Nederlandt. Kopergr. door 
 E. Nieuwenhoff. Met gezicht op Nieuw Amsterdam op 't Eylant 
 Manhattans. — Uit v. d. Donck Beschr. v. Nieuw Nederlandt. 2e 
 druk 1657. 
 Map entitled : Nova Belgica sive Nieuw Nederlandt. Engraved hy 
 E. Nieuwenhoff. With a view of New Amsterdam on the Island 
 of Manhattans. — Ex v. d. Donck Description of New Nether- 
 land. 2d edition. 1656. 
 
 Totius Neobelgii nova et accuratissimi tabula. Typis Joachim 
 Ottens Amstelodami.— Met gezicht op „ Nieuw- Amsterdam 
 ,, onlangs Nieuw jorck genaamt, ende hernomen bij de Neder- 
 „ landers op den 24 Aug. 1673 eindelijk aan de Engelse weder 
 afgestaan." MetallegorischrandwerkwaarschijnUjk gegraveerd 
 door Eom. de Hooghe. 
 
 Totius Neobelgii nova et accwraUssima tabula, fol. engr. Typis 
 Joachim Ottens Amstelodami. — With View of „ New Amsterdam, 
 „ formerly called New York and retaken by the Dutch Aug. 2Ath 
 „ 1673. finally again surrendered to the English " With an 
 allegorical border probably engraved by Bom. de Hooghe. 
 
 Nova Belgica et Anglia Nova. Amstelodami Apud G. Valk et P. 
 Schenk. Kopergr. gekleurd. 
 Cohii/red engraving. 
 
19 
 
 Nova Anglia, No wm Belgivm et Virginia. Amstelodami. Johannes 
 Janssonius Excudit. Kopergr. gekleurd. 
 Coloured engraving. 
 
 Belgii Novi, Angliae Novae, et partis Virginiae Novissima Delin- 
 eatio. Prostant Amstelaedami apud Petrum Sckenk et Grerardum 
 Valk. (c. 1164—1674), fol. Kopergr. gekleurd. 
 fol. Coloured engraving. 
 
 Novi Belgii quod nunc Novi Jorck vocatur, Novae Angliae & 
 Partis Virginiae accuratissima et novissima delineatio. fol. 
 Kopergr. — Uit Ogilby, America 1671. 
 fol. engraving, ex Ogilby, America 1671. 
 
 Batavorum Coloniae, Occident: Indis Septentrionalis Americae 
 implantatae. Kopergr. door P. Schenck (1690 a 1710) gekleurd. 
 Met gezicht op Nieuw Amsterdam. 
 
 Engraved hy P. Schenck (1690 — 1710), coloured. With a view of 
 New Amsterdam. 
 
 Recens edita totius Novi Belgii, in America Septentrionalis siti, 
 delineatio cura et sumtibus Tob. Conr. Lotteri. Sac. Caes. 
 Maj. Geographi August. Vind. fol. Kopergr. gekl. — Met gezicht 
 op : Neu Jorck sive Neu Amsterdam. 
 
 WitJi a view of : Neu JorcJc sive Neu Amsterdam. 
 
 A new Map of Virginia, Mary-Land and the Improved Parts of 
 Pennsylvani & New-Jersey. Sold by Christopher Browne . . . 
 London, fol. 
 
 Coloured engraving. 
 
 Kaart van Nieuw-Nederland, naar de kaarten van A. Roggeveen, 
 A. Montanus en van de Vereenigde Staten van America door 
 A. Arrow Smith, gevolgd door J. P. Bourge. fol. Kopergr. J. P. 
 Bourge del. J. C. Bendorp sculp. 
 J. P. Bourge's Map of New-Netherland from the maps by A. Rog- 
 geveen and A. Montanus and from A. Arrow SmitWs map of the. 
 U. S. of A. fol. engraving J. P. Bourge del. J, C. Bendorp sctdp. 
 
 Gezicht op Nieuw Amsterdam get.: Novum Amsterodamum. 
 Kopergr. — Uit A. Montanus Beschr. v. Amerika 1670 (de 
 vroegst afgebeelde toestand) — In Ogilby America 1671 komt 
 hetzelfde prentje voor. 
 
 View of New Amsterdam entitled : Novum Amsterodanum. En- 
 graving ex A. Montanus Beschr. v. Amerika 1670. — The oldest 
 map knoivn. — In Ogilby'^ s America 1671 we find the same map. 
 
 Gezicht op Nieuw Amsterdam get.: Nieu Amsterdam, een stede- 
 ken in Noord Amerikaes Nieu HoUant, op het eilant Mankattan 
 (sic.) : namaels Nieu jork genaemt, toen het geraekte in 't gebiet 
 der Engelschen. — ■ Amstelodamum recens, postea Anghs iUud 
 possidentibus dictum Eboracum. novum, Hollandiae novae, id 
 est Americae Mexicanae sive Septentrionalis oppidulum. Pet. 
 Sehenk. Amsteld. Kopergr. — Uit P. Schenk, Hecatompohs etc. 
 1702. 
 Prospect of New Amsterdam entitled : Neiv Amsterdam, a small 
 town in North America's New Holland, on the isle of Mankat- 
 tan (sic) , called New Jork after having been taken possession of 
 by the English. — Amstelodamum recens, postea Anglis illud 
 possidentibus dictum Eboracum Novum, Hollandiae novae, id 
 est Americae Mexicanae sive septentrionalis oppididum. Pet. 
 Schenk. Amstelod. — Engraving ex P. Schenk. Hecatompolis 
 etc. 1702. 
 
Appendix. 
 
 JESSE DE FOREST, 
 
 FOUNDEE OF NEW AMSTERDAM. 
 
 Jesse De Forest was bora, probably between 1570 and 
 1580, at Avesnes, in Hainault, from Jean De Forest and 
 Anne Maillard. His family evidently occupied a rather 
 high social position; lack of documents renders it impos- 
 sible to trace back its history tiU a questionable connection 
 with the Sires De Forest, who had their castle near Le Cha- 
 teau en Cambresis. But in the beginning of the XVIth 
 century members of it were aldermen and jures of Avesnes 
 and one of them married the daughter of the bailiff of the 
 town. The parents of Jesse left Avesnes to escape religious 
 persecution or from some other motive ; they arrived at Ley- 
 den from Bergen op Zoom in 1603, but remained there only 
 for a year and a half. In the last of 1604 they settled at 
 Amsterdam. Their son Gerard returned to Leyden in 1605 
 and lived in that place as a dyer till his death in 1654. 
 
 Jesse did not accompany his parents to Holland. In 1601 
 he married, at Sedan, Marie du Clou; he is called in records 
 of that time either a merchant or a dyer. In December, 
 1608, he was stUl living near Sedan ; in February, 1615, one 
 of his children was baptised at Leyden. Here he made his 
 schemes of emigration, which he tried to realize in 1621. In 
 July of that year he applied to the ambassador of England 
 at the Hague, Sir Dudley Carleton; in the name of 56 
 Walloon families at Leyden, who wished to go to Virginia, 
 
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21 
 
 and asked the permission and the assistance of the king of 
 England, Dr. Baird in his history of the Huguenot ref- 
 ugees in America gives the address in extenso, with the 
 names of the subscribers. The English government was 
 very willing to permit the settlement in Virginia, but re- 
 fused to give any assistance, and thus rendered the project 
 impracticable. In 1622 Jesse sent a petition to the States 
 Gi-eneral of the United Provinces ; he speaks in it for himself 
 and asks to be allowed to enroll Walloon families for emi- 
 gration to the West Indies, as America was commonly 
 called in that time. The permission was granted, a ship 
 was equipped, and in March, 1623, the " New Netherland " left 
 Holland with thirty Walloon families aboard. In May the 
 moiith of the river Hudson was reached and the Dutch flag 
 hoisted on the Isle of Manhattan. A Dutch sailor had 
 passed a winter there and sometimes Dutch vessels had 
 taken in fresh water. But the permanent occupation of 
 the emplacement of New York dates from the arrival of 
 the "New Netherland." In May, 1623, New Amsterdam was 
 founded by one division of the colonists whilst another went 
 on further and built the fort Orange, the origin of the 
 present Albany. 
 
 The names of these pioneers are not known, but there is 
 no doubt that Jesse De Forest was one of them, nay, occu- 
 pied a first place amongst them. It was he who had written 
 the address to England, and who was their advocate before 
 the ambassador ; he had organized the whole expedition as 
 we see from his petition to the States ; he was the leader as 
 matter of course. Yet there has been discussion about his 
 going to Manhattan. After his departure, his brother 
 Grerard asked the burgomasters of Leyden the authorization 
 to replace as a dyer his brother Jesse, lately gone to the 
 West Indies. The authorization was given the 4th of Janu- 
 ary, 1624. This fact has been a source of confusion. The 
 21st and 22d of December, 1623, a naval expedition had 
 sailed from Holland to Brazil in order to conquer this 
 country. Mr. Riker in his History of Harlem (City of New 
 York), 1881, thinks that the word latehj must mean the ex- 
 pedition that started in December rather than that of March, 
 eight months past. Mr. Baird in his above named work is 
 not convinced by this reasoning, but has no other argument 
 than the improbability of Jesse's not going with the colo- 
 nists he had enrolled himself. 
 
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 Luckily there is no doubt at all. The mistake is this, 
 that only the date of the authorization is noticed ; the peti- 
 tion was sent for advice to the guild the 21st of December ; 
 the Tvord lately was wiitten before that date, and so before 
 the Brazilian expedition. There had been at that moment 
 no other voyage to the West Indies lately than that of the 
 "New Xetherland" and we may be sure that Jesse De Forest 
 belonged to it. If so, the fact that he prepared and organ- 
 ized the Walloon colonization of 1623 gives him a right to 
 be called the founder of New Amsterdam. 
 
 Ch. m. dozy. 
 
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 think me conceited when I add that we had not expected it 
 otherwise. Now that you have come from over the ocean 
 in order to visit the land of your ancestors, you could not 
 pass Leiden unnoticed. You are no strangers here, although 
 you see our town for the first time in your Lives. You all 
 know Leiden and are familiar with the place it occupies in 
 the history of the Netherlands. 
 
 " Our annual celebration of the Third of October has been 
 one of the moving causes which awakened your interest in 
 this part of the country and decided you to honor it with 
 your visit. The glory of our University, dating from the 
 time when your ancestors lived in this country, is dear to 
 you as well as to every Hollander. But this is not all. The 
 town you esteem as a seat of learning, and because of the 
 courage of its citizens, is also a sacred spot for every inhabi- 
 tant of your present fatherland. 
 
 " The Pilgrim Fathers enjoyed our hospitality and John 
 Robinson's grave is situated within our city limits. That, 
 therefore, which you represent in your persons, is closely 
 related to this ancient town ; that is to say. New Netherlands 
 and New England remember the soil which you still respect 
 even when you do not regret its possession, while we do not 
 wish to be behind you in admiration for the new empire. 
 
 " Ladies and G-entlemen : "We appreciate your presence in 
 our midst higher still because we felt that we could rely 
 upon your coming here. Your time is precious, and I shall 
 not rob you of much of it by a long speech. Allow me to 
 say this, only, that from the bottom of my heart comes the 
 wish that among the recollections you will carry homeward 
 with you, the reminiscence of this day, spent in Leiden, may 
 occupy a not unworthy place." 
 
 While the wine of honor was being served, Mr. Geo. W. 
 Van Siclen was the spokesman of all in thanking for the 
 cordial reception met with from the government of a city 
 where many of their forefathers had resided or had found 
 a shelter and refuge ; a city also world renowned and well 
 known to them for its scientific eminence. Mr. Van Siclen 
 thereupon introduced the Rev. Dr. J. H. Suydam, who 
 delivered an oration. 
 
 In the mean time the crowd in front of the Stadhuis had 
 dispersed, also the band, which was replaced by the play- 
 ing of the chimes. The American brethren, aU wearing an 
 
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 orange badge and " geuzenpenning," viewed with interest 
 some of the other rooms in the City Hall, and then went in 
 groups to the historical Burg, which excited general interest 
 for its appearance, the recollections surrounding it, and the 
 fine view to he had of the town and its vicinity. Escorted 
 by their guides a walk was taken through the city, the 
 visitors being divided in sections, especially along the 
 Nieuwstraat, Hooglandsche, Kerkgracht, Haarlemmer- 
 straat and Mare. Meeting again in the Lakenhal, the 
 exhibition awaited them of everything relating to the 
 ancestors of our present guests. Dr. W. Pleyte, Conser- 
 vator of the Municipal Museum, greeted them on the piazza 
 in a speech, which has been printed in the preface of the 
 catalogue of the collection, of which booklet charming 
 ladies presented a copy to each of the guests with a pretty 
 souvenir of their visit to Leiden, in the shape of a little map 
 representing Leiden in 1888, and New Amsterdam shortly 
 after its foundation. Thereupon they went to the next house, 
 where this collection was exhibited, and many a word of 
 praise was bestowed upon Dr. W. Pleyte the projector of it. 
 It is indeed a collection well worthy the examination of his- 
 torians and others. It embraces objects from 300 years 
 back and ends with a photograph of Mr. Geo. W. Van Siclen, 
 the leader of our present visitors. The histories of past and 
 present are here combined. 
 
 The next step was to the famous Leiden University, 
 where the Senate Chamber and its splendid chimney, with 
 numerous coats of arms, and the portrait gallery of cele- 
 brated professors, who shed glory upon the University, 
 transformed the interest into admiration. Tii-ed as the 
 visitors were, they were loath to leave this solemn, sacred 
 spot, so rich in reminiscences. The large auditorium also 
 attracted much attention. About the time, half -past one, that 
 the foreigners were due at the Van der Wei*ff Park a large 
 crowd had collected there around the monument, the steps 
 of which were several times ascended; not only Van der 
 "Werff's statue itself but also the representations on the 
 pedestal relating to the siege and relief of Leiden were care- 
 fully inspected. Long they tarried here, in small groups, 
 and it was long after the hour set for the dejeuner when 
 all were assembled in the Maison Wijtenburg. In the large 
 hall, in the midst of cheerful conversation, seated at small 
 tables, and under the sounds of the music of the infantry 
 
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 regiment, commencing with tlie American national air, and 
 continuing with "Piet Hein," the menu was discussed, 
 which read: 
 
 bouillon. 
 
 small patties. 
 
 "hutspot." 
 
 roast beep sandwiches. 
 
 herring and whitebread. 
 
 DESSERT. 
 
 First, Mr. Brouwer had, in a few words, wished them a 
 good appetite, whereupon Mr. Van Siclen quoted, in Dutch, 
 the old saying : " Eet wat gaer is, drink wat klaer is, 
 spreech wat waer is," after which, amid cheers, the dejeuner 
 began. During the repast Mr. Brouwer spoke again, this 
 time in Dutch : 
 
 " Ladies and Oentlemen,^' he said, " I feel the need of say- 
 ing a few words in the name of the Third of October Asso- 
 ciation. I might commence with the words of Uriah Heep, 
 one of Charles Dickens's creations, and say ' I am so very 
 humble.' Yes, Leiden is a 'very humble' city. It is no 
 Amsterdam or Rotterdam, and when these large cities pre- 
 cede us in a splendid reception to our trans- Atlantic breth- 
 ren and sisters, Leiden takes a back seat in all humility. 
 But when it comes to keeping alive the recollection of the 
 glorious deeds of the forefathers ; to strengthening the ties 
 of fraternity ; to showing that we feel that we are one in 
 origin, one in principles, one in purpose ; to proving how 
 dear we hold our brethren and sisters, when it comes to 
 that, Leiden does not intend to be behind. Then we do our 
 very best, then we practise the old motto, ' In union there is 
 strength,' aud we plant a young shoot, saying to ourselves, 
 ' At last the shoot becomes a tree.' 
 
 "With that conviction our forefathers waged the war 
 against despotism and slavery of conscience, and they held 
 their own till they knew themselves safe in the shade of 
 that tree. The tree of liberty has blossomed anew. Has 
 not your great historian. Motley, pointed out that the rebel- 
 lion of the North American colonies against England found 
 its prototype in our revolt against Spain ? And the mother 
 
84 
 
 has not forgotten her offspring. Although the vast ocean 
 separated her from her children, her example was an admo- 
 nition to hold aloft the banner of freedom. Your sprout 
 too became a tree, which excites our admu'ation, as the 
 United States of North America. But as true children 
 you, sons and daughters of the North American Republic, 
 have not forgotten your mother. You have had the feel- 
 ing of brothers and sisters of one family, and by means of 
 the foundation of The Holland Society you have revived the 
 feeling of consanguinity. You have been attracted towards 
 the land of your fathers, and you have joined our Leiden 
 Third of October Association, which wishes to keep green 
 the memory of our great ancestors. Accept our thanks for 
 these proofs of fraternal feeling. Ladies and gentlemen, I 
 wish to drink to The Holland Society of New-York, the shoot 
 which will become a tree ; to the American Repubhc, the 
 shoot which has become a tree ; to the love for political and 
 religious liberty, the tree that never withers but always pro- 
 duces new shoots, which become trees in their turn. 
 
 " Ladies and gentlemen. 
 
 " The HoDand Society of New-York. 
 
 ''The great American Republic. 
 
 " Liberty above all. 
 
 " ' A thing of beauty is a joy forever.' " 
 
 These words were cheered to the echo, and the toast drank 
 in foaming beakers. 
 
 ]\Ir. Van Siclen drank to the growth of the Third of 
 October Association, which now regaled her guests with 
 hutspot, which, he was forced to confess, tasted excellently. 
 Leiden knows how to treat her guests, Leiden, the source of 
 liberty. 
 
 The time had now come to continue the trip, fortified 
 and refreshed. The last visit was to the club "Musis 
 Sacrum," the entrance of which bore the legend " Homage 
 to our American brethren" ; the garden and haU were orna- 
 mented with Dutch, Orange, and American flags and pen- 
 nants, which floated in the strong breeze. The members of 
 " Musis," and their ladies, were present in large numbers. 
 The staff of the National Guard had again offered its band 
 of music to the Third of October Association Committee. 
 On the veranda seats had been reserved for the guests. 
 
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 While the American national air was being played they 
 took their seats and the champagne was served. 
 
 Shortly afterwards Mr. J. J. van Masijk Huyser Van 
 Eeenen greeted the friends from the far West with a triple 
 welcome to this spot devoted to social intercourse within the 
 walls of Leiden, which occupies, as does the whole country, 
 such glorious pages in history. No matter what differences 
 exist in religious and political matters, when it comes to 
 receiving strangers, all are united, especially when it con- 
 cerns guests on whose breasts Orange is seen and in whose 
 hearts love for Orange is felt. Mutual friendship is there ; 
 it is now fortified by a cordial glass and a heartfelt hand- 
 shake. The speaker hoped that the American brethren 
 might carry with them the pleasantest of recollections of their 
 brief stay, as to the old Dutch hospitality. That this would 
 be the case was evident from the cheers evoked by this 
 speech, whereupon one of the members of the Leiden Corps 
 of Students, Chevalier A. Roell, in the name also of a few 
 friends and as a token of their respect for the HoUando- 
 Americans, offered to one of the lady guests a small silken 
 American flag, with satin orange ribbons, mounted on a 
 bamboo stick with ivory knob. 
 
 This courtesy caused au explosion ; the guests commenced 
 to sing a song composed on the way over; the cordial affec- 
 tionate feeling increased ; the music was accompanied when 
 playing the national airs and the lo vivat, till the hour of 
 departing came, only too soon, for the visit had only been 
 brief. 
 
 The gentlemen and ladies, the latter with a fresh supply 
 of bouquets which had been offered them on ai'riving, 
 again entered the carriages which were to take them to the 
 station. On the way the guests were again treated at the 
 Minerva Club, this time to pure gin (or " oude klare "). The 
 idea for this treat, and for that of the morning, originated 
 with Chevalier Rudolph Six. 
 
 This delay came near causing them to be too late, and 
 before all had alighted, the 4:37 train, which was to carry 
 them back to Amsterdam, had arrived. Notwithstanding the 
 large crowd and the great excitement, the measures taken 
 by Mr. de Bruyn, the statioumaster, and by the police, 
 insured the most perfect order. With many handshakings 
 and words of thanks the train was reached. All great praise 
 was given the committee of the Third of October Associa- 
 
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 tion for the splendid manner in whicli it had fulfilled its 
 task. 
 
 When the train commenced to move, the departing 
 guests, upon the initiative of Mr. Van Siclen, raised the 
 cries: "Long live Leiden University!" "Long live the 
 Third of October Association ! " in Dutch, which, of course, 
 was loudly applauded and caused great enthusisam among 
 those on the platform. 
 
 Maeken and Hoorn. 
 
 ON Tuesday, August 14, we were the guests of the 
 City of Amsterdam for an excursion to the island 
 of Marken and the old City of Hoorn. The steamer 
 "William III." had been prepared for us, and on 
 board, ready to receive us, were the burgomaster, 
 some of the aldermen, the committee, and the high 
 sheriff of Amsterdam, Count Westenberg, with 
 many ladies of their families. The start was made 
 in good time from the De Ruyter Kade, and the 
 day was beautiful. As we left the harbor, the 
 weeping tower, so beautifully described by De 
 Amicis, was pointed out to us. We soon passed 
 through the locks separating the harbor from the 
 Zuider Zee, and after a sail of about two hours 
 we arrived at the entrance of the harbor of Marken. 
 Here we were obliged to take two smaller boats as 
 our steamer was of too deep a draught to enter the 
 harbor. As we approached the entrance nothing was 
 to be seen but a long row of high piles ; turning the 
 point, however, and entering the little haven we dis- 
 covered all the children of the island gathered at the 
 end of the dock to give us a song of welcome. We 
 quickly disembarked and were received by the burgo- 
 master. We made a tour of inspection of the quaint 
 
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 houses, the little church, and the old museum, and 
 were impressed by the quaintness and simplicity of 
 everything on the island. We seemed to have been 
 suddenly taken back some two hundred years or 
 more to the primitive days. Those of our party who 
 spoke the Dutch of the Mohawk and the Hudson, 
 here found a tongue like their own. The costumes 
 of the women and children were most picturesque, 
 and impressed us greatly. As nearly as the historian 
 can describe this costume, it is as follows : A cap 
 fitting closely around the head and inclosing all the 
 hair, except a curl on each side, is a distinctive fea- 
 ture. The body of the dress is a red and white 
 striped cotton waist, over this an embroidered 
 sleeveless bodice, while around the body is bound a 
 broad cotton belt. The petticoats are thick and 
 always number two, sometimes of different colors, 
 with an apron tied behind with double tapes. The 
 stockings are woolen, and all wear klompes. All the 
 women have yellow hair and blue eyes. The young 
 children up to the age of seven are dressed alike, ex- 
 cept that the boys, to distinguish their sex, have a 
 little circular disk sewed at the apex of the cap. 
 After the boy is seven years old, he is dressed in a 
 jacket and knee-breeches of most enormous ampli- 
 tude. The men wear the same costume as the older 
 boys, except that their hats are old-fashioned beavers 
 of a type that was probably worn 300 years ago. The 
 few men we saw were of an advanced age, as the 
 active male population of the island go off fishing on 
 Monday morning, not returning until Saturday night. 
 The houses are built on piers and arranged in rows ; 
 little paths, raised high above the meadows, connect 
 the various groups of houses, as these meadows in 
 
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 the wet season are covered with water. The houses 
 are small, some of them two stories in height, and 
 are most quaintly arranged and decorated with treas- 
 ures in pottery and furniture which have come down 
 through many generations. The old women brought 
 out from theu' lockers their embroidered bodices, the 
 heirlooms of many years, and showed them with 
 great pride. Our pictoriographer made several suc- 
 cessful pictures which are among the most interesting 
 of the expedition, but more than one mother refused 
 to have her child's picture taken, fearing that some 
 harm might come to it from the deadly instru- 
 ment. The inhabitants received us with wonder, and 
 some of them were heard to exclaim, " "Vhy, they are 
 white ! " We visited these points of interest under 
 the guidance of the burgomaster, Mr. De G-root. 
 Many of the party thoroughly enjoyed the scrambles 
 by the children for the small coin thrown in the air ; 
 the children, finding it an occasion of equal pleasure, 
 seemed loath to have us leave. 
 
 In due time we embarked on the tugs and were 
 transferred to our steamer. On our way to Hoorn a 
 bountiful luncheon was spread upon the deck of the 
 steamer, which was thoroughly enjoyed by all. Songs 
 and toasts prolonged the repast until Hoorn was in 
 sight. As we approached the city we could see an 
 enormous crowd filling the piers, and heard the band 
 of the National Gruard playing our American national 
 airs. All Hoorn was covered with flags. We landed 
 at the water gate, and preceded by the band and by 
 the chief of police, Heer Terpstra, marched in pro- 
 cession through the enthusiastic crowd to the Town 
 Hall. Here Baron K. W. Van Dedem, the bui-go- 
 master, gave us a most excellent address of welcome 
 
AANGEBODKX 
 
 ileu letleu van de .HOLLAND SOCIETY" van New-M, 
 
 bij hun bezoek te HOORN, 
 
 op DINSDAa 14 AUGUSTUS 1888, 
 
 door de Vereeniging ,,SAPPHO" te Hoorn. 
 
 — «P^« ,Vt«g|<i.:iS-v.<«— 
 
 Het Nedei\landsche Volkslied, 
 
 Wien Neerlandseh bloed in de aders vloeit, 
 
 Van vreemde smetten vrij, 
 ' Wiens hart voor land en koning gloeit, 
 
 Verheff ' den zang als wij : 
 Hij steir met ons, vereend van zin, 
 
 Met onbeklemde borst, 
 Het godgevallig feestlied in 
 
 Voor vaderland en vorst. 
 
 Beseherm, o God ! bewaak den grond, 
 
 Waarop onze adem gaat ; 
 De plek, waar onze wieg op stond, 
 
 Waar eens ons graf op staat. 
 Wij smeeken van uw vaderhand, 
 
 Met diep geroerde borst, 
 Beboud voor 't lieve vaderland, 
 
 Voor vaderland en vorst. 
 
 Dring' Inid, van nit ons feestgedruisch. 
 
 Die bee uw bemel in : 
 Bewaar deu vorst, bewaar zijn linis 
 
 En ons, zijn huisgezin. 
 Doe nog ons laatst, ons jongst gezang, 
 
 Dien eigen wensch gestand : 
 Bewaar, o God ! den koning lang 
 
 En 't lieve vaderland. 
 H. ToLLENS. Muziek van J. W. Wilms. 
 
 Druk van p. Geerts, Hoorn. 
 
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 in English. He is a distinguished looking man, a 
 member of the Upper House, and created a most 
 favorable impression on all the visitors. In his ad- 
 dress he gave a brief sketch of Hoorn's greatness 
 in past centuries, and of the part the city took in 
 the history of Holland. He acknowledged that the 
 city of Hoorn of the present day was no longer the 
 prominent city of which that history speaks, but it 
 was far from being a "dead city," as some well- 
 known author had wrongly termed it. He drew the 
 attention of the guests to the many curiosities the 
 city was able to show at the present time, and as- 
 sured them that in hospitality Hoorn was never 
 behind any other city in the Netherlands, so that 
 nothing would be spared to make this brief visit as 
 pleasant as possible. 
 
 Mr. Van Siclen, in a few well-chosen words, re- 
 turned thanks in the name of the guests for the kind 
 reception accorded them. A fine luncheon was 
 served. The principal civic authorities were present. 
 The glee club of the Sappho Society then sang some 
 beautiful songs ; the delightful singing of this Society 
 can only be compared to that of the Mendelssohn G-lee 
 Club of New- York City ; three couplets of the Dutch 
 national hymn were also sung, and were in printed 
 form presented to the visitors as a memento of the 
 occasion. The Baron then presented to the Society 
 an old jewel to be preserved in its archives, and this 
 was received in behalf of the Society by the youngest 
 visitor. We were afterwards taken to the West 
 Frisian Museum, in the building formerly occupied 
 by the old tribunals, and inspected the many curiosi- 
 ties and antiquities preserved there. Some of the 
 party then took carriages, and went off under the 
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 guidance of Mr. Van Akerlaken, member of the First 
 Chamber, and Mr, A. Keurenaer, engineer of the 
 "Water State," to inspect the elaborate system of 
 dykes, while the rest of us took a walk through the 
 principal streets, being particularly attracted by the 
 houses whose fronts were adorned with stone-work 
 representing a naval battle. These were erected in 
 memory of the defeat of Bossu. We also were 
 greatly interested in the Kermiss then in full vigor 
 in the streets of the city; we inspected the booths 
 and were much pleased with the puffejes and waffles. 
 We went through the old cow gate, and through the 
 grounds laid out on the site of the old walls, enjoying 
 the beautiful evening and the fine views over the 
 waters of this inland sea. At 6.30 we took a special 
 train to return to Amsterdam. On our way we passed 
 through Zaandam with its 400 windmills. In passing 
 over the North Holland canal we were amazed to see 
 a large ocean steamer apparently making her way 
 through the fields. We were told she was just arriv- 
 ing from the East Indies, and on her way to Amster- 
 dam. We arrived at our destination about 7.30. In 
 the evening we attended, by special invitation, a 
 concert at the De Hereeniging Club. We found a 
 large building with spacious gTounds around it, and 
 here was a band stand occupied by an orchestra 
 which gave us a most enjoyable programme, which 
 is here inserted: 
 
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 SOCIETEIT "DE HEREENIGING." 
 
 DmsDAG, 14 Augustus, 1888. 
 
 CONCERT DOOR DE ORKEST-VEREENIGING. 
 
 Kapelmeester, de Heer J. F. Wedemeijer. 
 
 PROGRAMMA. 
 
 In den tuin. 
 
 le Deel. 
 
 1. Jubilaums Marsch J. Nesvadba. 
 
 2. Ouverture, "Athalia" F. Mendelssohn. 
 
 3. Largo aus der Grrosse Senate, No. 7, L. Van Beethoven. 
 
 4. Fantaisie sur I'Opera " Le Cheval de Bronze " F. Auber. 
 
 2e Deel. 
 
 5. Ouverture, " Manschaf t an Bord " . . . F. Von Suppe. 
 
 6. Fantaisie sur I'Opera " Le Barbier de Seville " G. Rossini. 
 
 7. " Tausend imd eine Nacht," Walzer .... J. Strauss. 
 
 8. Fantaisie aus der Operette "Der Bettelstudent " 
 
 MiLLOCKER. 
 
 In de Zaal. 
 le Deel. 
 
 1. Feest Marsch J. Strauss. 
 
 2. Ouverture, " Die Fingals Hohle " . . F. Mendelssohn. 
 
 3. Reverie, " Adagio " H. Vieuxtemps. 
 
 4. Potpourri sur des Airs Suisses Gr. Schroder. 
 
 2e Deel. 
 
 5. Ouverture, " Martha " F. von Flotow. 
 
 6. Norturne pour Flute, Violin, et Cor . . . . F. Doppler. 
 
 7. " Wo die Citronen bliih'n," Walzer .... J. Strauss. 
 
 8. Fantaisie sur I'Opera "L']&toile du Nord" 
 
 G-. Meijerbeer. 
 Aanvang 8 uur. 
 
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 In these grounds tlie members with their families 
 enjoy the music in the evening air and hght refresh- 
 ments are served, an example which seems worthy of 
 imitation by American clubs. 
 
 DELFT AND THE HAGUE. 
 
 EAELY in the morning of Wednesday, the 15th 
 August, we gathered at the station, being joined 
 by our fellow-member, Senator C. P. Vedder of New- 
 York, and his friend Senator Geo. Z. Irwin, and at 8.20 
 took the train for Delft. The ride was a short one, 
 and we were soon at this historic place, great in its 
 memorials of the past. Here we were met by the 
 Hon. Levyssohn Norman, who most kindly guided 
 us in person. "We first viewed the statue of Hugo 
 Grrotius, the most distinguished of Dutch scholars, 
 which was erected here to commemorate the fact 
 that Delft was his birthplace. We then proceeded 
 to the Nieuwe Kerk and gazed upon the magnificent 
 monument erected in 1621 to the memory of William 
 of Orange. The historian will not try to describe 
 this most elaborate and beautiful piece of work, the 
 finest of its kind in Holland, nor will he attempt to 
 portray the emotions excited in the breasts of all the 
 party as they looked upon the last resting place of 
 the greatest man of his time, and one who alone with 
 Washington deserves the warmest love and reverence 
 of all lovers of liberty and humanity. 
 
 From the Nieuwe Kerk we proceeded to the Oude 
 Kerk and saw the monuments of two of the great 
 Dutch admirals ; that of Old Tromp, who hoisted the 
 broom to his masthead to show that he had swept 
 
The Holland Society 
 
 OF 
 
 New -York. 
 
 A VISIT TO Delft and 's-Gravenhage 
 
 Wednesday the 15th of August 1888. 
 
 DELFT. 
 
 The Statue of Hugo Grotius. 
 
 The New Church. The tomb of William the Silent. 
 
 The Old Church. The tombs of the admirals Maarten 
 
 Harpertszoon Tromp and Piet Hein. 
 The Prinsenhof, residence of William THE SiLENT. 
 
 The staircase on which he was shot the loth of July, 
 
 1584. 
 Gemeenlandshuis of Delfland (front.) 
 
Per steamtram via 
 RIJSWIJK (Peace of 1697) 
 
 TO 
 
 'S-GRAVENBAGE. 
 
 Statue of Spinoza. 
 
 The Great Market place. Prinsengracht. The Townhall 
 (16'** century. Front) Gevangenpoort (old State-prison.) 
 The De Witts. 
 
 Het Buitenhof (The outer Court.) The statue of King 
 William II. ♦ 
 
 Het Binnenhof (The inner Court.) The study of jAN DE 
 Witt. The Spring in honor of Count William II, 
 Roman king, founder of 's-Gravenhage. 
 
 The Lower House. 
 
 The Grand Hall (front.) 
 
 Oldenbarneveld. 
 
 The Treves Hall. 
 
 Het Plein. Statue of William the Silent. The 
 Houses of Amsterdam and Rotterdam (front). The 
 Department of Justice. The new Pottery of 's-Graven- 
 hage, „ Rozenburg." 
 
 Het Mauritshuis. (Picture-gallery). REMBRANDT'S 
 Anatomical Lesson. Paul Potter's Steer. 
 
 Korte Vijverberg. The Municipal Museum, Lange Vij- 
 verberg. Kneuterdijk. Voorhout. Tournooiveld. 
 
 Luncheon. 
 
 The Theatre (front). 
 
 Het Voorhout. The Royal Library. 
 
Het Noordeinde. The King's Palace (front.) Equestrian 
 statue of William the Silent. 
 
 De Zeestraat. The Panorama of Scheveningen by H. W. 
 Mesdag Esq. Reception by the painter himself. 
 
 De Laan van Meerdervoort. The studio and picture- 
 gallery of H. W. Mesdag Esq. 
 
 The Monument of 1813. 
 
 The Royal Bazar. 
 
 The Old Road to Scheveningen. 
 
 The house of the painter Mr. C. BiSSCHOP (inside, style 
 of the 16''' century). 
 
 Scheveningen. 
 
 The New Road. 
 
 The Wood. 
 
 Het Huis ten Bosch (The Palace in the wood). Built in 
 the middle of the 17"' century by Amalia VAN 
 SoLMS, widow of Prince FREDERIC Henry. The 
 famous Orange Hall. 
 
 At 7 o'clock: 
 Dinner in the Bellevue Hotel, Bezuidenhout, 
 
 In the evening : 
 
 Concert of the Philharmonic Society of Berlin at 
 the Kurhaus (Scheveningen, steamtram). 
 
 Concert of the Royal Military Band of the „ Regiment 
 Grenadiers and Jagers " at the Pavilion in the wood of 
 the New or Literary Club. Introduction required. 
 
Printed by MOUTON & Co. — The Hague. 
 
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 the Channel, and that of Piet Hein, who captured the 
 Silver Fleet, an exploit even now commemorated in 
 the songs of our Society. We noticed with interest 
 the beautiful monument of a daughter of Philip Van 
 Marnix. From the church we went to the Prinsen- 
 hof, the residence of William the Silent, now con- 
 verted into a barrack. Here we looked upon the 
 stairway where, on the 10th July, 1584, the assassin 
 fired the fatal bullets, the marks of which still remain 
 upon the wall. From these somewhat sad memorials 
 of one of the greatest tragedies of Dutch history, we 
 turned with something of relief to the lighter pleas- 
 ures of the Capitol. We embarked upon a steam 
 tram, gaily decorated with flags and bunting in honor 
 of the occasion, and were welcomed by the committee 
 from The Hague. Among the gentlemen who thus 
 received us were His Excellency Minister Roosevelt, 
 the Hon. H. D. Levyssohn Norman, Member of the 
 Second Chamber of the States General, Deputy of 
 Rotterdam, late Member of the Indian Council at 
 Batavia ; Count 0. van Limburg Stirum ; Baron 
 van Heeckerentot Walien; Hon. A. A. Yorsterman 
 van Oyen ; the celebrated painter Israels ; Jonkheer 
 Teding van Berkout; Count van Hogendorp, and 
 others. On our way we passed through the sta- 
 tion of Ryswyk where was concluded, in 1697, the 
 celebrated peace between England, France, Hol- 
 land, Grermany, and Spain. We arrived at The 
 Hague in due season and entered barouches for 
 a long drive through the principal parts of the city. 
 It would be difficult to note the many points of 
 interest which we visited, or to tell of the many 
 things we saw. Passing the statue of Spinoza we 
 drove through the great market-place and arrived at 
 
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 the Town Hall, a most picturesque building of the 
 XVIth century. Thence we went to the old city 
 prison and viewed with interest the remarkable col- 
 lection of the old instruments of torture, and realized 
 as never before the vivid descriptions of the terrors 
 of the Inquisition, and of the Spanish treatment of 
 the unfortunate Netherlanders. From thence to the 
 Buitenhof (the outer court) to the statue of King 
 William II.; thence to the Binnenhof (the inner 
 coui't), and were admitted as a special favor to the 
 study of Jan de Witt ; then with a hurried view of 
 the old Hall of the Knights we passed to the Cham- 
 oers of the States General. We greatly admired the 
 beautiful Treves saloon with its elegant decorations. 
 From thence we went to the Maurits Huis, erected by 
 Prince John Maurice of Nassau, but now containing 
 the famous picture gallery of The Hague. Here of 
 course we saw the two world-famous pictures, the 
 Eembrandt "Lesson in Anatomy" and Paul Potter's 
 " Bull" ; we also reveled in the beautiful examples of 
 Jan Steen, Gerard Dou, Adrian van Ostade, Adrian 
 van de Velde, and the other famous Dutch painters. 
 Thence we drove to the beautiful mansion of Levys- 
 sohn Norman, the deputy and representative of Eotter- 
 dam. The house is a square one, delightfully situated 
 near the park, and filled with objects of taste and 
 beauty. The entire arrangement and effect struck us 
 as very similar to the handsomest houses of our own 
 country. Here we were received by the deputy and 
 his charming wife, Madame Israels, and a few other 
 ladies and gentlemen. We partook of a bountiful 
 luncheon, served exquisitely, and among the coui-ses 
 were several dishes prepared for their national origin 
 and significance. Among them we had the waffles of 
 
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 Holland, which are almost identical with the waffles 
 of America, though somewhat smaller and sweeter. 
 We noted here a custom which seems universal in 
 Holland, and which is yet characteristic of that 
 country ; at all private houses after meals the ladies 
 are offered cologne at the conclusion of the feast. 
 After a few moments spent in social intercourse, we 
 again entered our carriages and were driven through 
 many of the beautiful streets of the city to the Cyclo- 
 rama of Scheveningen, where we were received by 
 H. W. Mesdag, the distinguished artist, who showed 
 us in person this the largest of his many beautiful 
 works. Here we spent a very pleasant haK hour, 
 and from there went to his residence. In this beau- 
 tiful mansion we were received by the artist and his 
 artist-wife with extreme cordiahty, and were amazed 
 at the magnificence of the house, filled to overflow- 
 ing with works of art and beauty. The entire third 
 story is taken up by the studio, and here he has 
 gathered some of the best specimens of the great 
 modern painters, which with his own works constitute 
 an enviable collection. In the rear of the house are 
 spacious gardens, beautifully arranged, and altogether 
 the visit was a most charming one. From thence we 
 drove through the park, and on our way passed the 
 imposing national monument built to commemorate 
 the restoration of Dutch independence in 1813. One 
 part of this monument had a particular interest to us 
 from the fact that one of the three leaders of the rising 
 of November, 1813, whose statues are grouped on the 
 monument, was the grandfather of one of the party 
 who acted as our hosts for this day, the Count van 
 Limburg Stu'um. We paused for a few moments to 
 visit a bazaar filled with every possible object to 
 
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 attract the tourist, and then stopped at the house 
 of Mr. C. Bisschop, another of the distinguished 
 artists of whom Holland has every right to be proud. 
 We were received by the courtly and kind old gen- 
 tleman and his charming wife with cordiality, and 
 made welcome to the house. This was one of the 
 most unique pleasures we enjoyed in Holland. The 
 house is a reproduction of the style of the XYIth 
 century, and is furnished completely with articles of 
 that time. Here were quaint furniture, rare books 
 (a beautiful old edition of Kats in the place of honor), 
 exquisite tapestry, everything to attract and please 
 the antiquarian and artist, and we lingered long over 
 its many beauties. Our time had passed so rapidly 
 that we found evening was approaching and we 
 coidd only drive hurriedly through the beauties of 
 Scheveningen, and scarcely caught more than a 
 glance of this most noted of the seashore resorts of 
 Europe, and the most beautiful summer resort in 
 Holland. Eeturning by the new road we drove 
 through the celebrated wood where for hundreds of 
 years the Counts of Holland pursued their game in 
 its recesses. We at length came to the beautiful 
 House in the Wood, a royal villa built in the mid 
 die of the X^TIth century by Amalia van Solms, the 
 widow of Prince Frederick Henry. The historian 
 again cannot attempt to describe the beauties of this 
 place, the favorite retreat of the Kings of Holland, 
 and can only say that each room is perfect in itself, 
 illustrating either some particular countiy, or some 
 particular epoch, representing gifts to the House of 
 Orange from most of the potentates of the world. 
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 are about fifty feet in height, and rich in color. As 
 a special favor we were shown the private apart- 
 ments of the Queen, and the historian took great 
 pleasure in recalling to the matron in charge the 
 fact that two years before he had obtained from her 
 the same privilege by an exhibition of his certificate 
 of membership in The Holland Society and a pathetic 
 appeal to her patriotism. Thence, as the sun was 
 sinking, we returned to our hotel, the Bellevue, and 
 there in the evening invited to dine with us the com- 
 mittee who had entertained us during the day, and 
 the distinguished artists who had so graciously shown 
 us their hospitality. The dinner was somewhat in- 
 formal in character, although several speeches were 
 made. The most apparent hit of the evening was 
 made by Deputy Levyssohn Norman, when he claimed 
 that the word " Yankee " came from the Dutch, its 
 derivation being " Jantje Man," Jantje meaning kind. 
 After dinner we were invited to a concert, at the 
 pavilion in the wood belonging to the New or Lite- 
 rary Club, by the superb Royal Military Band of the 
 regiment of Grrenadiers and Jagers. Most of the 
 members accepted the invitation, and the party were 
 given the distinguished courtesy of having the Ameri- 
 can national hymn played by the orchestra as the 
 party entered the house, the audience standing while 
 they did so, this being an honor of the most distin- 
 guished kind and generally reserved for royalty alone. 
 Some few of us with some of our hosts afterwards 
 proceeded to the spacious club-house of the Litteraire 
 Societeit on the Plein, where we spent a rather late 
 and social hour in conversation and interchange of 
 sentiment. Towards the close of the session we were 
 rather astonished to see one of our worthy dominies 
 13 
 
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 enter. Our good friend only served, liowever, to 
 enliven our discourse and to show that he was deter- 
 mined to see all the best of Holland in a spirit that 
 could well be emulated by many of his cloth. 
 
 Brielle, Doedeecht, and Eotteedam. 
 
 EARLY in the morning of Thursday, August 16, 
 we left The Hague by rail for Rotterdam, arriving 
 at the latter place about 9.30, where we were met 
 by the Rotterdam reception committee, Mr. J. V. 
 Wierdsma, Jhr. Otto Rewchlin, and Mr. Hendrik P. 
 N. Muller, Hzn, " het uitvoerend comitte," and taken 
 to the North Island, and embarked on the steamer 
 " Merwede." This was kindly offered for the occasion 
 by Mr. Smit, one of the leading firm of shipbuilders, 
 who are the grandchildren of the original founder of 
 the business. The steamer was a fine one and the sail 
 down the Maas very interesting. We were accom- 
 panied by the band of the Chasseurs, who added much 
 to the pleasure of the occasion. Everywhere all the 
 vessels we passed saluted us, and our small cannon 
 gave notice of our coming to every point. Our first 
 landing was at the old town of Brielle, a place that 
 bears the same relation to the great struggle for Dutch 
 independence that the little village of Lexington does 
 to the American Revolution ; for here it was that the 
 water-beggars, by a sudden descent, captured the 
 town, April 1, 1572, and afforded a nucleus for the 
 first armed resistance to the Spaniards. The city is 
 now small and of but little pretense to activity or 
 commerce, and it is chiefly interesting for its part in 
 the glorious history of the past. As we approached 
 
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 the dock at the end of a long causeway built of earth, 
 and with a roadway lined on both sides with trees, 
 we found almost the entire population of the place 
 awaiting us. Before we landed, copies of the " Week 
 Blad," the newspaper of the place, containing a 
 special welcome to our Society were placed in our 
 hands. This is so quaint, and at the same time so 
 hearty in its welcome, that it is here reproduced: 
 
 TO THE MEMBERS OF THE HOLLAND SOCIETY 
 OF NEW- YORK. 
 
 The old City of Brielle, pride on the honnour to may 
 receive in her walls the noble descendants of the Dutch 
 farmers, who settled theirselves two hundred and fifty 
 years ago in the far country of North America, brings 
 them the most gracefull wellcome. 
 
 In accord to the sublime truth of the proverb of the city- 
 weapon " Libertatis Primitiae," she feels allways a sympa- 
 thetica! attraction to the citizens of a free land and still too 
 more if there consists a not forgotten relation of blood be- 
 tween them and herself. 
 
 Which the greatest reverence she turns her eyes to the 
 land of Washington, Lincoln, Eddison, Parker, Motley, and 
 Sheridan and remembers herself thankfull the excellent 
 services, proved by this noble democratical people to the 
 sake of humanity and science, mercatury and industry, 
 egality, freedom, and fraternity. 
 
 She prays also the members of The Holland Society to 
 agree the assertainment of this high affection and to beheld 
 the remembrance of their old fatherland and the city of 
 Brielle, when they would be returned to their good and 
 free land. 
 
 As we landed and formed in procession the crowd 
 accompanied us on our way. The delight of the 
 children in the music could well be appreciated by us 
 when we were informed that all the children there 
 
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 under the age of twelve years had never before heard 
 a band. At first we were objects of wondering in- 
 terest, and the remarks of the bystanders were some- 
 times amusing, as when one of them was heard to 
 exclaim after looking upon the party, "Why, they 
 don't wear feathers ! " But soon the curiosity of the 
 younger female portion gave way to a warmer feeling, 
 and in a short time every member of the party who 
 was under fifty years of age, and who was not accom- 
 panied by a lady, was surrounded by at least four 
 blushing, chattering, demonstrative damsels, who did 
 their best to entertain us with fl.attering remarks in 
 various tongues, and who accompanied us to every 
 point we went. When shut out by the police they 
 waited at the gate until we reappeared, and then took 
 up the line of march as before. We fii-st went to the 
 old church of St Catharina and hastily inspected the 
 tombs and ornaments; then to the Merula Orphan 
 House, erected in the year 1553 by Angelus Merula, 
 a martyr of the reformation in 1557. This was 
 founded as an orphan asylum for the children of 
 sailors and is still maintained for the same purpose. 
 The orphans wear the quaint costume originally de- 
 signed by the founder. Here we had a touching in- 
 stance of the care and thought bestowed everywhere 
 upon our welcome. When we had all gathered 
 within the small hall of the institution, the orphans, 
 some twenty in number, were arranged around the 
 melodeon, and under the guidance of their vener- 
 able director sang the Star Spangled Banner in Eng- 
 lish, ending with one verse of the Dutch national 
 hymn. From there we went to the general orphan 
 asylum called the Greuzengesticht. This is of modern 
 construction and is for the orphans of the entire 
 
^ oo^oo^oo^^oo^oopoo^||;0()|^oo|^o(>-^'0o|^joo^^^oo'^oo^oo|ioo ^1 
 
 l^ooci^ioo 
 
Akticle 1 (abbreviated). Ahticle 2 (abbreviated). 
 
 It is tlie aim of tbe A.ssoeiatiou Tlie Association is in favor of all 
 
 to provide for Sailors' Orphans, education given in tbe Asylum be- 
 
 and for other helpless ones, so ing solely and exclusively founded 
 
 far as means and circumstances upon the Reformed principles. 
 allow it. 
 
 DIPLOMA 
 
 FOE 
 
 The Holland Society of New- York 
 
 AS 
 
 HONORAEY MEMBER 
 
 of the Association for the Keceiviug of aud Providing for 
 Orphans and Helpless Ones in the 
 
 National G-euzen Astllt:m "Wilhelmus van Nassauer"' 
 
 AT BrIELLE. 
 
 Erected on April 1, 1872, as a Monument to the deliverance 
 out of the hands of the Spaniards. A gift /row the Benevolent 
 Nation, and sustained till now hi/ the Benevolent Nation. 
 
 AWARDED 
 
 on the occasion of the visit paid to the Asylum by the 
 Members. 
 
 Bbielle, August 16, 1888. 
 
 (w.s.) J. Vebmeulen, 
 
 Presideat of the Board oT Regeots 
 
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 community. Here the children sang for us an original 
 ode of welcome prepared for the occasion, which is 
 here inserted: 
 
 WelJcomstgroef aan onze Anierikaansche Stamverivanten, Leden 
 der "Holland Society" Bij hun bezoeJc aan het geuzenge- 
 stight. "WilJielmus van Wassauen" te Brielle. 
 
 Hun webneenend toegezongen door de in die Stichting 
 verpleegd wordende Weezen en arme Verlatenen. 
 
 (Melodie: "Wilhelmuus van Nassauen.") 
 
 Weest welkom, Stamgenooten 
 
 Van't Volk, dat door Gods hand 
 Zoo ruim is beweldadigd : 
 
 Het volk van Nederlaud. 
 Weest welkom in het Weeshuis, 
 
 Dat mag ten teeken staan 
 Van's Heeren zoo doorluchte 
 
 En groote wonderdaan. 
 
 Weest welkom, roepen w'allen 
 
 Uit eenen mond U toe ; 
 Dat God Zijn vriendlijk aanschijn 
 
 Voor U steeds licliten doe, 
 Dat boven wensch en bede 
 
 't U en de Uwen ga ; 
 En G^ onzer moogt gedenken 
 
 Ook in Amerika. 
 
 0ns : arme ouderloozen 
 
 En kindren, aan den dijk 
 Verlaten eenmaal staande, 
 
 Verhoogd dus nit bet slijk. 
 0ns, voor wie God de Heere 
 
 Een plaats bier beft bereid, 
 Alwaar we moeten leven 
 
 Van de befdadigbeid. 
 
 - Brielle, 16 Augustus, 1888. P. J. B. 
 
 Here one of our party found a very sweet-looking 
 orphan of the same name as his own, and the little 
 
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 girl was made happy by a large sized gold coin with 
 which to remember her namesake from America. 
 Time was passing and we were compelled to form 
 our line and proceed to the steamer. We were accom- 
 panied on our way by our escort of damsels, and 
 although sorry to part from them were forced to 
 bid them farewell at the gang-plank of the steamer. 
 After we left Brielle, we proceeded up the south 
 branch of the Maas to Dordrecht. Between Brielle 
 and Dordi-echt an elegant luncheon was served in the 
 saloon of the steamer. The menu cards were beauti- 
 fully gotten up, and each one contained in colors a 
 figure from one of the striking paintings of Franz 
 Hals. The menu is here inserted to give some slight 
 idea of the good things which we had in Holland. 
 
 HOLLAND SOCIETY OF NEW-YORK. 
 
 TwEEDB Ontbijt. Rotterdaih, 16 Augustus, 1888. 
 Vleesehnat. Wijnen. 
 
 Geroerde Eieren met Truf- Oude Marsala. 
 
 fels. Bleeke Sherry. 
 
 Gebajiken Tong met Col- St. Julien. 
 
 bert Sans. Champagne Mumm Extra 
 
 Gesneden Ossenhaas met Dry. 
 
 geroosterd Brood. Champagne Louis Roederer. 
 
 Gebraden Hoenders. 
 Gestoofde Ymchten. 
 Sla met El. 
 Maarschalkpodding. 
 Vruchten. 
 Xagerecht. 
 
 We were pleased to recognize in the attendants the 
 stewards from the steamer "Amsterdam," and it seemed 
 
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 like old times to be greeted by their familiar voices, 
 and to receive their cheerful services. In due time 
 we reached Dordrecht, about 3.30 in the afternoon. 
 On the dock carriages were waiting and we took a 
 rapid drive around the city. Here, as everywhere 
 else, the entire populace turned out to do us honor, 
 and the streets were gaily decorated. We drove to 
 the G-roote Kerk, an immense Grothic edifice of 
 the XIYth century. Here we admired the brass 
 screen, the marble pulpit, and the fine old oaken 
 carved work of the choir stalls, the most important 
 work of the kind in Holland. We were shown with 
 pride the gold and silver communion service. In the 
 church we were welcomed by Mr. H. Hoyer in behaK 
 of the people of Dordrecht. 
 
 He welcomed the visitors most heartily, and ex- 
 pressed regret, in the name of the people of Dor- 
 drecht, that the shortness of their visit to that city 
 would not enable him to show them more of the at- 
 tractions of the place ; but, remembering the words 
 of the American poet, Longfellow, that our life must 
 consist of deeds, it was truly a fact that the American 
 visitors made use of every minute at their disposal 
 to take personal notice of and to observe everything 
 of interest they met with on their way. 
 
 Het Nieuws van den Bag, of Saturday, August 
 18, 1888, quoted as follows : 
 
 Referring to the great and general kindness shown to 
 the tourists on their trip, and which was in smaller 
 localities more remarkable even than in the great capital, 
 Amsterdam, the Nieuwe Eotterdamsche Courant remarks 
 as follows : " Here again, [at Dordrecht], many people 
 were in the streets, and the visitors while driving past 
 were freely saluted by the waving of hats, hands, and 
 handkerchiefs. The masses were entirely conscious of 
 
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 what was meant by this train of open carriages, filled 
 with tourists. Somehow it had penetrated the minds of 
 the multitude that from far over the sea strange men and 
 women had come to visit the land of their forefathers. That 
 these strangers all, without exception, wore orange badges 
 did the rest. That wearing of orange caught the popular 
 fancy. It caused many hands, rough as well as gloved ones, 
 to touch the hats. Our people are generally not so quick 
 at saluting people in open carriages." 
 
 When we left Dordrecht it was raining, the only 
 shower we had during our stay in Holland. This 
 did not last long, and we soon had an opportunity to 
 view on both sides of the river the enormous ship- 
 building establishments, lining both banks for miles, 
 and we were impressed with their extent. We were 
 told by Mr. Smit that the preceding year they had 
 built quite a number of small iron vessels for Eng- 
 land, and that the entire commercial navy of Holland 
 was being rapidly changed from wood to iron. 
 
 We reached Rotterdam about six in the evening, 
 and drove in open carriages along the famous Boomp- 
 jes, and through many of the fine streets to the Zoo- 
 logical Gardens. Although our time was so short, 
 we were convinced of the commercial importance of 
 Rotterdam, and of the wealth and taste of its citizens 
 as shown in their houses and gardens. The Zoo, 
 although not so large nor so important a collection 
 as the one at Amsterdam, is stUl of much interest. 
 The large building in the gardens is a fine edifice. 
 Here in the reception-room we were presented to the 
 burgomaster and other dignitaries, and shortly after 
 were escorted to the dining-room, a large room beauti- 
 fully decorated. Here the most elaborate banquet 
 given us while in Holland was served. A fine 
 orchestra hidden behind a bank of flowers played 
 
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 between the courses, and the entertainment was in 
 every way a delightful one. The menu is here pre- 
 sented : 
 
 MAALTIJD 
 
 ter eere der holland society op new- york. 
 
 Rotterdam, 16 Augustus, 1888. 
 
 SpijsUjst. 
 
 Koninginnesoep. 
 
 Gehakt Eappenvleeseli in 
 
 Korst. 
 Zalm met Hollandsche Saus. 
 Ossenh'aas met Groenten. 
 Kalfslappen, Pompadour- 
 
 stijl. 
 Kippenpastei, Toulousestijl. 
 Kalfszwezerik. 
 Artisjokken met Saus. 
 Gebraden Snippen. 
 Gestoofde Vrucliten. 
 Versche Kreeft. 
 
 Sla. 
 Maria Theresia Podding. 
 
 Ijs. 
 Vruchten. 
 Nagerecht. 
 
 Wijnen. 
 
 Bleeke Sherry. 
 Sauternes Wijn. 
 Chateau de Cantemerle, 1877. 
 Marquis de Terme Margaux, 
 
 1878. 
 Bourgogne Chambertin. 
 Rudesheimer Berg, 1857. 
 Champagne Mumm Extra 
 
 Dry. 
 Champagne Louis Roederer. 
 
 One striking feature of the repast was the fish 
 course. When the time had arrived, the head waiter 
 entered bearing on uplifted arms an enormous platter 
 whereon lay in royal splendor a forty-pound Dutch 
 salmon, beautifully decorated. This was carried in 
 a sort of triumphant procession up and down the 
 length of the tables, and then served, to the delight 
 of the guests. There was one departure from the 
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 usual course of procedure, made necessary by the 
 fact that we were to take a special train at 11, and it 
 was feared that time would not allow proper atten- 
 tion being given to the toasts. Hence the first toast 
 was introduced after the first course, and this was 
 followed until the end of the dinner. The historian 
 cannot attempt to give more than a summary of 
 some of the principal speeches. 
 
 The Burgomaster was the first one who held up his 
 glass as a toast to the welfare of His Majesty the 
 King of the Netherlands, coupled with the President 
 of the United States. He was followed by a toast 
 from Mr. J. Visser, Vice-Consul of the United States, 
 who spoke as follows : 
 
 When claiming the honor to answer the honorable 
 burgomeester, I do so in my official quality as vice- 
 consul of the United States, and must in the first 
 place thank the honorable speaker for his toast in 
 favor of the President of the United States. I am 
 only sorry that this task I fulfil in consequence of 
 the United States minister, Mr. Eoosevelt, being 
 absent, which absence his Excellency has been com- 
 pelled to by personal matters, and which he very 
 much regrets as well as no doubt we all do, but 
 nevertheless, ladies and gentlemen, his Excellency 
 authorized me and requested me, in answering the 
 kind words of the burgomeester of Rotterdam, to add 
 in name of his Excellency a frank expression of the 
 strong friendliness of feeling which exists in the 
 United States towards the Netherlands. 
 
 His Excellency wished to have declared that there 
 are still residing in America many persons of Dutch 
 descent, especially is this the case in the neighbor- 
 hood of New- York, who cherish the memory and 
 traditions of their ancestors with warmth and sincere 
 appreciation. 
 
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 His Excellency further states that it is due to 
 these citizens, a portion of whom are here on a visit 
 to the land of their ancestors, that America has 
 throughout its length and breadth come of late to 
 a proper understanding of the great obligations it 
 owes to Holland. The late Governor Seymour, one 
 of the most distinguished of public citizens, published 
 a pamphlet showing that without the sturdy honesty 
 of the Dutch character and its fairness of treatment 
 of the Indian tribes the American Eepublic would 
 never have existed. This Grovernor Seymour also, in 
 another production, traced the roots of much of the 
 American laws to Dutch origin. The American 
 people, his Excellency declares, recognize in free 
 schools and free worship an outcropping of the 
 teachings of Holland. It was one of the eminent 
 American writers who first gave to the English lan- 
 guage a true history of the glories and greatness of 
 the fatherland. No words, his Excellency says, could 
 exaggerate the sincere respect and hearty good- will 
 which exist in America towards the country which 
 its great-grandchildren are now revisiting with feel- 
 ings akin to reverence, and his Excellency is sure all 
 will join him in the confident hope that these kindly 
 relations will never be disturbed. 
 
 Ladies and gentlemen, I have transmitted this as it 
 has been given me to understand by his Excellency, 
 Mr. Roosevelt, and, in finishing, I personally do not 
 hesitate to invite you all to drink with me the con- 
 tinuance of the friendly feelings between the United 
 States and the Netherlands, and that this may be 
 more and more strengthened by the peaceful develop- 
 ment of commercial enterprise in both countries. 
 
 Mr. J. Y. Wierdsma, Director of the Netherlands- 
 American Steam Navigation Company, responded to 
 the toast by paying warm homage to Mr. Eoosevelt, 
 in whose person he recognized one of the most worthy 
 bearers of a Netherlands name in foreign lands, also 
 
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 one of the noble founders of The Holland Society, and 
 a man whose talent and amiable character give evi- 
 dence of his special fitness for representing America 
 in Holland. The applause with which these words 
 were received proved that the American guests quite 
 agreed with the speaker. 
 
 Mr. Martin Mees, a member of the reception com- 
 mittee, Vice-President of the Chamber of Commerce, 
 and President of the Board of Directors of the 
 Netherlands-American Steam Navigation Company, 
 then addressed them, as follows : 
 
 Honorable Gentlemen : 
 
 I should like, in my double capacity, to express our 
 satisfaction that the honorable members of The Hol- 
 land Society did us the pleasure of visiting Eotter- 
 dam. It is extremely gratifying to observe that the 
 descendants of our fellow-countrymen, who left our 
 country two centuries ago, wished to see Holland. 
 The honorable members of The Holland Society will 
 have observed that we are somewhat proud of our 
 history. When your ancestors left this country Hol- 
 land was at her culminating point ; she was foremost 
 in trade and commerce, compared with other coun- 
 tries. We remember with pride the time when, after 
 an unsuccessful attempt to find a new way to India, 
 daring and clever men like Moucheron and others 
 induced the East India Company to send Captain 
 Hudson with the vessel Half Moon to explore the 
 land that was discovered in the West Indies ; when, 
 after the discovery of the way round the Cape of 
 Good Hope, private merchants brought together 
 capital, and did, with great risks, send out vessels 
 to trade with the nations in East India. Of course 
 a small country like Holland could not long retain 
 the command of the sea. It is, moreover, a recog- 
 nized fact that riches work frequently enervation; 
 
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 109 
 
 and the members of The Holland Society, when pass- 
 ing by the fine old houses on the Kaizersgracht and 
 Heerengracht at Amsterdam, wiU have seen the proof 
 of the enormous profits made by our ancestors. 
 But those fellow-countrymen who did emigrate at 
 that time to New Amsterdam did prove that the 
 energy of the Dutchman revives at any favorable 
 opportunity. We are accustomed to call the United 
 States the New World, and a new world it is, with 
 its fertile soil, containing within its boundaries 
 all climates, producing almost everything that man 
 can desire. Planted in that soil the Dutch tree did 
 grow in a way that astonished the whole civilized 
 world. But in the best soil a sick tree cannot grow. 
 What your countrymen, Members of The Holland 
 Society, did achieve, not only in commerce and 
 manufacturing, but also in science and art, is the 
 best proof of the excellent moral and intellectual 
 qualities you possess. We are very much obliged 
 for your giving us the opportunity to make your 
 acquaintance, and to show you our country. 
 
 An old rhyme, attributed to Greorge Canning, says : 
 
 In matters of commerce, the fault of the Dutch 
 Is giving too little and asking too much. 
 
 I trust that you will not have got this impression 
 by your visit here. We wish you prosperity in your 
 families; we hope and trust that the United States 
 will thrive well. Allow me to end with the wishes of 
 your poet Longfellow : 
 
 Sail on, Union, strong and great ! * * * 
 Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee. 
 
 This was followed by a short address from Mr. Van 
 Siclen, especially devoted to thanking the committee 
 for the hospitality the members of The Holland So- 
 ciety had received in the Fatherland. It was true that 
 the descendants of Holland residing in America had 
 
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 lost the use of the mother tongue, but the love for 
 the Motherland remained in the home where their 
 ancestors founded the New Netherlands. The kind- 
 ness bestowed upon them in that Motherland would 
 certainly be welcome to the many who bear Dutch 
 names, and who are to be found in nearly every city 
 and village of the United States — Dutch names 
 which are honored everywhere. He had observed 
 to his great satisfaction the increasing welfare of 
 Rotterdam ; and the growth of the city and her com- 
 merce at this moment impressed him so deeply, that 
 he felt that the interest taken in this progress should 
 be expressed by a more eloquent speaker than himself 
 — the Rev. Dr. Elmendorf . 
 
 The very eloquent little speech of Dr. Elmendorf 
 was as follows : 
 
 3Ir. Burgomaster^ Ladies and Gentlemen : 
 
 Our most worthy and esteemed Secretary, Van 
 Siclen, with tender appreciation of the deeper mean- 
 ing of things, — which to common natures seem 
 commonplace, — again and again in conversation has 
 characterized the excursion of The Holland Society 
 of New-York to Holland as a poem. 
 
 A poem it truly is, and like many other great 
 poems it is being lived before it is wiitten. 
 
 The things, the accurate descriptions of which, by 
 and by, will seem to others extravagant creations of 
 a too excited fancy, are literally entering into the 
 daily experience of us all. 
 
 Whatever may have been the cause or character 
 of the inception of this excursion, when it came to its 
 birth it was found to be vital with the best inspira- 
 tions of filial reverence and affection. All constitut- 
 ing oui* company only need to tread the localities, and 
 look upon the mementoes of those sublime events 
 
Ill 
 
 ■which should make real to our apprehension what 
 has been so familiar to our knowledge, in order to 
 make our souls susceptible to their full historic 
 power. 
 
 So the heroic elements of our poem were assured. 
 We are to know and feel, henceforth, as we never 
 have before, the transcendent meaning of those mar- 
 velous demonstrations of patriotism, piety, and phil- 
 anthropy, which made Holland preeminently the 
 parent and the perpetual exemplifier of these divine 
 principles. 
 
 But whence should come the touch which would 
 reach and stir to its depths our poetic sensibility, 
 and cause a stream of pure and true and ennobling 
 emotion to break forth and flow with increasing 
 volume ? 
 
 The answer came in the look, the words, the grasp 
 of the first greeting of our brethren here ! And 
 every hour since, not only an exhaustless generosity, 
 but a masterly ingenuity of hospitality, has taxed 
 itself to the utmost to emphasize that welcome and 
 make our enjoyment perfect. 
 
 You all know the words and their authority : " As in 
 water face answers to face, so the heart of man to 
 man." 
 
 An old writer has said : "If you would make me weep, 
 you must first weep yourself." You, indeed, have not 
 wept, brethren of Holland, nor have you made us 
 weep. But you have so illustrated the principle and 
 truth stated, that we find our love and longing in the 
 revelations and as the reflections of your own. So 
 we know the meaning of the poem you have evoked, 
 and while we cannot translate it into spoken words, 
 the beauty and sweetness of its rhythm shall go sing- 
 ing on in our hearts while they have life enough left 
 to throb. And if you would know just how this 
 feels, you must come to America, and let us kindle a 
 new and noble joy for you, as you have kindled ours 
 by the glow of genuine fraternal affection. 
 
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 Mr. Burgomaster and brethren, let me offer my 
 closing sentiment in words as fervent to-night as 
 they are familiar : 
 
 G-od bless your native land, 
 Firm may she ever stand, 
 
 Thro' storm and night ; 
 When the wild tempests rave, 
 Ruler of wind and wave, 
 Do thou this country save, 
 
 By thy great might. 
 
 He was followed by Mr. Hendr. P. N, Miiller, Hzn., 
 who proposed a toast in honor of the ladies. In his 
 'remarks he said: It was one of the characteristics of 
 the Netherlanders as well as of the Americans — which 
 the latter have perhaps inherited from their Dutch 
 forefathers — that they have so great a regard for the 
 fair sex. He alluded to the fact that it was very likely 
 that the Netherlands would in the course of time be 
 governed by a member of the weaker sex, the beauti- 
 ful child of the king, and the pride and love of the 
 whole nation. He alluded also to the friendship 
 which had increased more and more between the 
 sons and the descendants of Dutch blood, just as the 
 Boers in South Africa, who plucked the British lion 
 by the beard, are now on terms of friendship with 
 the Fatherland. He closed his speech by remarking 
 that, considering women govern the world, he found 
 it a pleasant duty to drink to the health of the ladies 
 present. The Rev. Dr. Suydam added another toast 
 here, and drank to the health of Princess Wilhelmina, 
 the daughter of the lawful monarch of this grand 
 little country. Mr. Van Siclen here read a telegram 
 just received, as foUows : 
 
ilolland Oociety of Wew-Iork 
 
 lo •?ollerdam 
 
 in >i?luausl 1SS5. 
 
 >f?I<l^:gc3JOi^^i35:io^iio3g^^ 
 
ROTTERDAM -HOLLAND. 
 
 Lat. 51° 55' N.— Longt. 4° 30' E. 
 
 DISTANCE FROM SEA 18 Eng. Miles. 
 
 POPULATION nearly 200,000. 
 
 Import. GrEAiN, Coals, Ores, Manufactures 
 AND Machineries of all kinds. Sugar, Coffee, 
 Tobacco, Rice, Petroleum, Cotton, Rags, G-uano, 
 African produces, etc. 
 
 Export. Manufactured goods. Sugar, Gin, 
 Cattle, Sheep, Pigs, Horses, Provisions, Fruit, 
 Vegetables, Cheese, Butter, etc. 
 
 Rotterdam is one of the cheapest and certainly 
 the most important port on the continent, through 
 its connection with the Rhine; the river Maas 
 being the only direct river-commnnication from the 
 Rhine to the North Sea. 
 
 Portcharges Rotterdam : Harbourdnes l/o d. 
 (about 3 Am. Cents) per ton. No Tonnage or Light- 
 dues ; Sea- and River-Pilotage moderate. 
 
Of the total navigation of tlie Netherlands no less 
 than three-fifths pass through the port of Rotter- 
 dam. Since the construction of the New-Waterway, 
 vessels of the largest size are able to reach Rotter- 
 dam quietly and safely; ships drawing 21 feet coming 
 up at any time, and those drawing 24 to 26 feet, at 
 high water. 
 
 A few years ago it took two or three days to 
 reach Rotterdam from Sea, now it is done within 
 two hours. 
 
 Improvements are being steadily carried out, in 
 the direction of increasing facilities for shipping, 
 with the result that the Trade of the port has more 
 than doubled within the past ten years. 
 
 Rotterdam is surrounded and traversed by three 
 Railroads : the Staatsspoorweg, the Rhinespoorweg 
 and the Hollandsche Spoorweg, having sheds and all 
 the required facilities and implements for tranship- 
 ping goods direct on and from the Railway-trucks. 
 
 There are several floating dry docks with large 
 capacities ; patent-slips for vessels up to 1200 tons ; 
 a Coaltip, different powerful steam- and hydraulic 
 Cranes. 
 
 Coming up thro' the New-Waterway to Rotterdam 
 there are on the Portside: Maassluis, Ylaardingen, 
 an important fishing centre, and Schiedam which has 
 a large grain-trade and about 400 Distilleries. 
 
 Some 25 years ago the only quay-room for large 
 sea-going vessels was the Boompjes, about 800 
 meters long (2650 feet). Trade improved and our 
 Town-authorities being persuaded of the necessity 
 to provide more quay-room, did what was required, 
 and for the moment the quay-room on both sides of 
 
the river is already 18,550 meters (31,830 feet). The 
 Town-Community being convinced that still more 
 is required, is constantly proceeding making more 
 quay-room. Besides this, the river is properly pro- 
 vided with a great number of Mooring-buoys, to 
 enable ships and steamers to tranship their cargoes 
 direct in Lighters and Rhine crafts. Since the 
 commencement of the new cut at Maassluis for 
 the direct New- Waterway up to Eotterdam, our 
 Government already laid out for it 27J millions of 
 Guilders, equal to 11 millions of Dollars. The 
 improvement of this entrance is still going on. 
 
 To meet the demand of the trade, expected by this 
 New-Waterway, our Town-Community did spend for 
 improvements of harbours, moorings, quay-room and 
 other works already 13 millions of Guilders, say f uUy 
 5 millions of Dollars. 
 
 To show that this money is spent with success, 
 the following Tables are taken from the original 
 reports, viz.: 
 
 
 Number of Sea-going 
 
 Vessels entered at 
 
 Eotterdam. 
 
 Tonnage. 
 
 1850 . 
 
 . . 1,940 
 
 346,186 
 
 1860 . 
 
 . . 2,449 
 
 592,978 
 
 1870 . 
 
 . . 2,973 
 
 1,026,348 
 
 1880 . 
 
 . . 3,456 
 
 1,681,650 
 
 1887 . 
 
 . . 4,153 
 
 2,488,284 
 
 1878 
 1887 
 
 Number of vessels entered 
 
 at Eotterdam from the 
 
 interior of Holland and 
 
 from the Ehine. 
 
 62,071 
 90,868 
 
 Tonnage. 
 
 1,276,064 
 2,167,019 
 
Of the sea-going Vessels, entered at Rotterdam 
 in 1887, the percentages according to the tonnage is 
 as follows : 
 
 from England 40,59% 
 
 " Spain 14,"* " 
 
 " Russia 15,38 u 
 
 " United States of North America 8,^ " 
 " other countries ..... 21,^^ " 
 
 The percentage from the United States increased 
 from 5,28 in 1883 to 8,*^ {^ iggy. 
 
 The Imports from the seaside consist chiefly of 
 the following Goods: 
 
 Goods. 
 
 Tons. 
 
 Percentages of 
 the total. 
 
 Grain . . . 
 
 . 1,036,603 
 
 34,75 
 
 Ores . . . 
 
 . 681,851 
 
 23 
 
 Metals . . 
 
 . 180,116 
 
 6 
 
 Oil . . . 
 
 . 147,556 
 
 5 
 
 Sundries . 
 
 937,603 
 
 31,25 
 
 
 2,983,729 
 
 100 
 
 The Exports to England are principally agricul- 
 tural products of Holland, Butter, Cheese, etc. and 
 Gin. 
 
 To Germany the exports are almost entirely transit 
 Goods, as Grain, Ore, etc. 
 
 As the trade is still increasing (the tonnage entered 
 in the first half year 1888, was about 10% above that 
 of the corresponding months of 1887), the Commu- 
 nity has again commenced the extension of harbours 
 on a large scale. 
 
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 HoMBURG, Aug. 16, 1888, . 
 
 Van Siclen, Holland Society, Rotterdam : 
 
 Very sorry I could not be with you, but the Greater 
 
 Holland is well represented. 
 
 Depew. 
 
 The last toast was proposed by the Burgomaster to 
 The Holland Society, which he said had not, accord- 
 ing to their motto, grown into a single tree, but rather 
 into a forest; which toast was responded to by Hon. 
 L. L. Van Allen, one of the members of The Holland 
 Society, for the continued welfare of Rotterdam. 
 
 The hour for breaking up too soon arrived and the 
 party made their way to the train and were safely 
 carried to Amsterdam. 
 
 While seated by the Burgomaster at this dinner 
 the Secretary received a telegram from the Committee 
 of Utrecht, whose telegrams and letters had been for 
 three days following the Society about, inviting the 
 Society to a public reception, drive through the city, 
 and luncheon at Utrecht on the following day, Friday. 
 It was now impossible to accept, as the invitation of 
 Alkmaar had already been accepted ; but the Society 
 will never cease to regret the fatality which prevented 
 those letters and telegrams reaching it in time ; 
 though sent to Amsterdam and The Hague, the 
 Society was so on the move that each one came just 
 after the Society had left, and thus was prevented 
 what would have undoubtedly proved one of the 
 most hospitable, interesting, and soul-stirring recep- 
 tions of the trip. It is most to be regretted, too, that 
 the labor and pains and preparation of the Utrecht 
 Committee should thus have all been turned into 
 disappointment. 
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 In Rotterdam we were presented by the committee 
 with a daintily gotten-up little book descriptive of 
 the place, specially prepared for our benefit, and con- 
 taining a convenient map of the city. This little 
 volume can properly be here inserted to show the 
 wonderful development of the commercial interests 
 of this important city. 
 
 ALKMAAE. 
 
 ON the morning of Friday, August 17, we were 
 joined by our fellow-member, Warner Van 
 Norden, and his son, and made our last trip as an 
 organized body. At nine in the morning we took a 
 steamer on the North Holland Canal for a visit to 
 Alkmaar and the agricultural districts of Holland, 
 under the auspices of the Alkmaar Division of The 
 Holland Society of Agriculture, in pursuance of the 
 following invitation : 
 
 A1.K5IAAB, August, 1888. 
 To Mr. GrEO. W. Van Siclen, 
 
 President of The Holland Society, Amsterdam. 
 
 Dear Sir : Regretting very much, your being prevented 
 to receive me, I take the liberty of wi'iting to propose to 
 you and the members of The Holland Society to reserve 
 one day for a visit to the town of Alkmaar and its neighbor- 
 hood. 
 
 If possible, we should prefer to have the honor of your 
 visit on a Friday, that being the day of the cheese market 
 (the principal in Holland). 
 
 The Committee of the Agricultural Society of Alkmaar 
 would be delighted if you would allow them to be your 
 host, and propose the following plan : 
 
 A special steamer will be ready for you at Amsterdam at 
 8 or 9 o'clock in the morning, and will bring you along the 
 River Zaan past Zaandam and the Zaan villages, and arrive, 
 
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 after a passage of about two hours, at Alkmaar. There we 
 will visit the market, the town hall, and the cathedral, after 
 which we are to visit a North Holland farm and take 
 luncheon at the place of Mr. Van Foreest, one of the mem- 
 bers of our committee, at Heiloo, and make a drive through 
 the picturesque environs, visiting the villages of Egmond 
 and Bergen. 
 
 You will then be back at Alkmaar in time to take the 
 train of five o'clock for Amsterdam. 
 
 Hoping that our proposition may be accepted, and ex- 
 pecting, if possible, an early answer, to make the necessary 
 arrangements, 
 
 Most respectfully yours, 
 
 H. F. DE WiLDT, 
 Burgomeester of Heiloo, near Alkmaar, 
 President of the Agricultural Society, District of Alkmaar. 
 
 This was a very interesting excursion, and showed 
 us a section of the country differing in many respects 
 from any we had visited, and illustrating one source, 
 the agricultural, of the many industries which make 
 Holland rich and prosperous. The trip on the canal 
 was full of incidents, and the pictoriographer was 
 successful in obtaining many striking pictures of the 
 country, the windmills, the locks, and other objects 
 of interest. Shortly after leaving Amsterdam our 
 attention was attracted on the bow of the steamer by 
 quite a crowd of rather strange looking men clad in 
 some peculiar costume, and all of them with packs of 
 agricultural instruments on then- backs. On inquiry 
 we learned that these men were German farm laborers, 
 who found it more profitable to pay their expenses 
 down the Rhine from Grermany to Holland to do the 
 harvesting for the Dutch farmers, and then return to 
 Germany, than to stay at home and receive the small 
 wages of their own country. This was quite an in- 
 structive object-lesson as to the prosperity of the 
 
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 agricultural regions of Holland. When we reached 
 Alkmaar, a pleasing city of about 15,000 inhabitants, 
 the committee of the Agi-icultm^al Society at Alk- 
 maar, viz.: Mr. H. F. de Wildt, Burgomaster of 
 Heiloo, President, Mr. H. Siebert Coster, of Alkmaar, 
 Secretary, S. Kramer, Burgomaster of Koedijk, and 
 K. Oly of Schermeer, members, escorted us to the 
 Town Hall where we were received by the civil autho- 
 rities. The Burgomaster, Mr. A. Maclaine Pout, 
 welcomed us in a brief but very hearty address. This 
 it may be remarked was the only official address 
 made to us, while in Holland, that was not delivered 
 in English, a fact which speaks much for the general 
 high education of the official class. We enjoyed our 
 Burgomaster's speech, however, from the evidentkind- 
 liness and sincerity of his welcome, and from the 
 opportunity it afforded us of hearing the national 
 language in its best state. Mr. Van Siclen replied 
 in French, and then at his request Mr. Sheldon 
 T. Viele made a further response to this address 
 of the Burgomaster, expressing our pleasure at 
 receiving so hearty a welcome so far away from 
 home. Mr. Viele was selected for this purpose 
 because he lived the farthest West in our own 
 country of all the excursionists, thus bringing to- 
 gether, as Alkmaar was the farthest North of any 
 point we reached in Holland, representatives of the 
 two extremes of America and Holland. After the 
 address the wine of honor was passed, and we then 
 made a visit to the museum of the city. Here we 
 were much interested in many of the antiquities. We 
 were particularly pleased to see the original letter 
 written by the authorities to Father William, in 1573, 
 informing him that the Spaniards had beleaguered 
 
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 the town, and asking him for assistance. This letter 
 was on parchment, long and very narrow; when 
 written it was wrapped around part of the hollow of 
 a stick, and inserted in a long leaping pole. The 
 following is a translation of it : 
 
 We are greatly surprised that your Grrace does not send us 
 any relief according to your Grace's promise, or send us a 
 messenger in daytime, as it was easier for you to send one 
 in to us than for us to send one out ; and therefore, unless 
 you relieve us as soon as possible, either by troops or by 
 piercing the dykes, we shall be obliged to surrender the 
 town to the enemy, and if this comes to pass we protest 
 before God and the world that it is not our fault, or due 
 to our unfaithfulness, but the fault of your Grace ; reason 
 wherefore we first admonish you to relieve us immediately, 
 because we have no powder to resist half an attack ; if this 
 messenger has arrived let the galley or ship float a flag on 
 the top of the mast when he comes, and let the flag be taken 
 down when he goes back; when we are going to be re- 
 lieved by soldiers show the sign 4 at the top of the mast of 
 the galley or ship, and if you want to relieve us by water 
 show 2 fours at the top of the mast of the galley or ship, 
 and if there is no relief for us let the galley or ship fire two 
 shots, and if you intend to save us and these good citizens 
 send us ships and boats between the buoy and the houses 
 at Bokkelen, and give us a sign in daytime when those 
 ships are going to come at night by showing two flags at 
 the stem of the galley or ship ; do this speedily. 
 
 May the Lord protect you. If there is no relief send as 
 many boats and ships as your Grace may think is right 
 in our behalf. We had not expected that your Grace 
 would have left us so long without relief or succor, as you 
 had promised us quite differently. 
 
 Jacob Cabeliau. 
 whihelm van zonenberch. 
 Jacques Hennebert. 
 Jan Spiegel. 
 
 DiRCK DUNEL. 
 
 Floris van Teylingen. 
 Claes Herensz. 
 
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 A carpenter took this and at the peril of his life 
 swam the moat, passed the lines of the Spaniards, and 
 made his way across the country, leaping ditches and 
 canals by aid of the pole, and finally reaching his 
 destination in safety. The inhabitants of the little 
 city bravely held out, and after a long siege Father 
 William finally succeeded in coming to their rescue. 
 This city and Leyden claim the proud honor of being 
 the only two cities, formally invested by the Span- 
 iards during those terrible years, that succeeded in 
 driAdng off the enemy. We saw a very curious pic- 
 ture of the siege, also many cloth seals, and official 
 stamps of the old time ; and the picture of Aphan, 
 who once upon a time sailed away with a fleet on a 
 voyage of exploration into unknown waters, and 
 was gone so many years that he and his companions 
 were given up for lost, but who finally, to the surprise 
 and gratitude of all the city, sailed into port again 
 with all his ships. We also saw some relics of the 
 Romans, showing that this remarkable people had 
 reached these regions and left evidences of their 
 wonderful civilization and power. The Secretary of 
 the City Council of Alkmaar, Mr. J. Nuhout van der 
 Veen, presented the visitors, in the name of the com- 
 mittee of the museum, with some coins made in 1573 
 for paying off the troops, photographs representing 
 some buildings of the city, a portrait of the Burgo- 
 master Van Teylingen, a book on the siege of Alk- 
 maar, written by the late Mr. Hofdyke, and several 
 other articles of value. 
 
 We were also presented by Mr. Twisk of the Agri- 
 cultural Society with a number of the bulbs of a 
 new tulip called by him the "Abraham Lincoln." 
 These were distributed among the members and 
 
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 now bloom in many gardens of America, recall- 
 ing a pleasant incident of our trip to tlie North of 
 Holland. 
 
 We tlien visited the cheese market, which is held 
 in the small square in front of the weighing house, 
 erected in 1582. The neighboring streets were filled 
 with quaint and curious wagons and chariots, of 
 which the pictoriographer obtained several good pic- 
 tures. As this was Friday, the weekly cheese market 
 was in full operation, and the place was thronged 
 with the peasantry of the province of North Holland, 
 who had come together to sell their produce to the 
 dealers. The square was divided into little lanes, all 
 of them filled with piles of the familiar yellow and 
 red cheeses which are seen all over the world. 
 
 There are in the weigh-house four sets of scales, 
 each attended by its own crew. There is a lively 
 competition between the sets to accomplish the 
 greatest amount of work, and their movements are 
 correspondingly lively. Two men bear between them 
 a sort of hand-bier, which they rapidly load with 
 cheeses from the piles in the market, and carry to 
 the weigh-house, where they are weighed and re- 
 turned. The scales are of the old-fashioned kind, 
 and for every 500 pounds of cheese placed on one 
 side of the scale, they place 500 pounds of iron on 
 the other. In honor of our visit the men were attired 
 in their best clothes and looked picturesquely in their 
 bright colored costumes, of which the coat, hose, and 
 peculiar stiff varnished straw hat are of a color dis- 
 tinguishing each crew. We visited the principal 
 church of the place, the Church of St. Laurence, 
 which has some interesting f eatui*es. Here a concert 
 was given on the fine organ for our benefit, and we 
 
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 heard the " Priest's March," from Athalie, followed 
 by "Yankee Doodle." 
 
 From here we were driven to Heiloo, a short dis- 
 tance from Alkmaar, and received at " Nyenbnrg," the 
 residence of Jhr. P. van Foreest, the president of the 
 Society. This is a beautiful old house, very pictu- 
 resquely situated in the midst of a fine old grove, with 
 vistas cut through the trees affording many fine views. 
 It was a fine representative of the best type of Dutch 
 farms, but very different from any ideas of oui"s as- 
 sociated with a farm-house. The house was commo- 
 dious and handsomely furnished, and situated upon 
 ground formerly owned by the Egmont family, so 
 illustrious in the annals of Holland, and from whom 
 the present family have descended. On the walls 
 were pictures of two brothers, from one of whom the 
 Chevalier van Foreest claims descent ; one was the 
 physician of William of Orange, and the other the 
 Burgomaster of Alkmaar at the time of the siege. 
 We were received by the Chevalier and his agreeable 
 wife and attractive children. Besides Mrs. van 
 Foreest there were also present, to greet and enter- 
 tain us, Mrs. de Wildt, Miss J. van Foreest, Miss J. 
 Momma, Mr. a. Kalff, Mr. Th. A. Sannes, Mr. D. 
 Bosman, Mr. H. Momma, and Mr, H. Cohen Stuart. 
 Here, in the agTicultural regions of the northern 
 part of Holland, we found this entire family, parents 
 and children, all speaking most excellent English, and 
 none of the family, with the exception of the father, 
 having ever been out of their own country. We par- 
 took of a luncheon embracing many appetizing delica- 
 cies peculiar to the country, after which we \dewed 
 the barns of the establishment, and were impressed 
 by their enormous size, wonderful neatness (the pro- 
 
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 verbial neatness of the Dutch certainly being in no 
 way overestimated), and methodical arrangement. 
 The cattle are quartered at one end of the barn, and 
 the successive stages of the manufacture of cheese go 
 on until the cheeses are stored at the other end ready 
 for shipment. We were also introduced to the massive 
 black and white bull of the farm, a winner of many 
 prizes, and a magnificent animal. 
 
 After this interesting inspection we took a long 
 drive to Egmond-binnen, to the scanty ruins of the 
 castle of Egmond. This was our best opportunity 
 for a glimpse of some of the most characteristic 
 scenery of Holland. The roads were excellent, 
 through fields covered with herbage on which in- 
 numerable cattle were grazing. As we approached 
 the sea the dunes were before us, mounds and hil- 
 locks of sand tossed up by the waves and winds, 
 beyond them the dark waters of the North Sea, and 
 above all the cold gray sky. After a drive of several 
 miles, stopping at the ruins of a fine church, which 
 was sacked and burned by the French, we returned 
 to Alkmaar and took the train at 5 p. m. for Amster- 
 dam, feeling that this had been one of our most in- 
 structive days, and one which gave us a higher idea 
 of the solid agricultural foundation upon which much 
 of the commercial prosperity of Holland depends. 
 
 On arriving at Amsterdam we partook of a rather 
 hasty dinner, paid our bills, gathered together oui* 
 effects, and turned our faces homeward. There were no 
 parting ceremonies, as the time was short, and all the 
 members of the expedition were thoroughly tired out 
 by their nine days' pleasure. Our little party, who 
 formed the advance-guard of the return trip, just 
 twelve in number,' took their seats in the train about 
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 nine in the evening, feeling loath to leave the scenes 
 of so much pleasure, but our faces "^ere turned home- 
 ward and in talking* over what we had seen the time 
 passed pleasantly until we reached Eotterdam about 
 eleven. "We got out of the cars and found the station 
 dim and almost deserted ; we were looking around for 
 our trunks, when a gendarme with two or three of 
 the railway porters suddenly appeared and practically 
 put the party under arrest. With the little Dutch at 
 our command we soon found that the desired victim 
 was that one of the party who had the least knowl- 
 edge of the Holland tongue. "We could not imagine 
 of what crime he had been guilty, until it finally 
 transpired that on pui'chasing his tickets in Amster- 
 dam, the ticket-seller had given him about a dollar too 
 much in change. This had been promptly reported by 
 telegraph and the direful result was before us in the 
 person of the military gentleman who was now de- 
 manding satisfaction. Om- innocent fellow-traveler 
 held out a handful of coin, told him to help himself 
 to what he wanted or take it all, if he would only let 
 him go ; this was finally accomplished, and an inter- 
 national episode was thus happily averted. The next 
 morning we spent a couple of hours in a hasty survey 
 of the shops of Eotterdam and promptly at twelve 
 o'clock found oui'selves again on board the good ship 
 "Amsterdam," homeward bound. 
 
 Here ends the chronicle of the first part of the ex- 
 pedition. It was only nine days in all, but it gave 
 us experiences and pleasures that will ever remain 
 in om' memories. The expedition was begun as a 
 sort of sentimental jommey to then common Father- 
 land beyond the sea by a party of strangers united 
 
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 by a shadowy claim of kinship. We hoped for a few 
 privileges beyond those enjoyed by the passing 
 traveler ; but, on reaching Holland, the whole nation, 
 responding to the sentiment which prompted onr jour- 
 ney, received us with open arms. 
 
 Of Holland and its people too much cannot be 
 said in praise. Thrift, prosperity, and commercial 
 activity are everywhere apparent. A noticeable indi- 
 cation of this prosperity was the fact that of the 
 many children we saw, both in the cities and the 
 country districts, all were comfortably clad and none 
 were barefooted. When the children are thus cared 
 for, all is well with the nation. 
 
 
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