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110/ [[left margin in red]] Holland [[/left margin in red]] about noon. Almost all passengers Dutch. At about 5 saw the white [[red underline]] dunes of Walcheren, [[/red underline]] then the old [[red underline]] windmills, [[/red underline]] some of them turning around with only two wings Then the Dutch fishing boats with their [[red underline]] brown dark hulls, [[/red underline]] brown red sails and characteristic [[red underline]] leeboards [[/red underline]] Those coming nearest to us hoisting brillant colored Dutch red white and blue [[strikethrough]] flags [[/strikethrough]] striped flags on mast heads, and waving arms and saluting the arriving boat a [[red underline]] picture of old Holland. [[/red underline]] Passport and custom examination merely perfunctory. [[red underline]] Train for Berlin [[/red underline]] leaves at about 6 P.M. But I drove to a new much advertised [[red underline]] Hotel Britannia [[/red underline]] two or three miles out of the town on the beach. Expected to be one of the few visitors; but [[strikethrough]] ha [[/strikethrough]] a convention of Tourist business was just going on and [[red underline]] hotel was full [[/red underline]] so had to be satisfied with the only room left small but new and clean. Prices moderate. After a bite went strolling along the well built dyke then into the town of [[red underline]] Flushing. [[/red underline]] A prim, [[red underline]] quiet, conservative [[/red underline]] place and inhabitants [[red underline]] even more so than in England. [[/red underline]] Some very old houses well kept. Inside the docks many [[red underline]] quaint fishing boats [[/red underline]] and their fishing men many in [[red underline]] wooden shoes, [[/red underline]] talking quietly over their matters of interest. No drunkenness, no noise, no rowdysim nor dirt even in the poorer quarters. A beautiful sunset on a quiet sea. 64°F in my room but entirely comfortable on account of sufficient humidity in the air [[end page]] [[start page]] 111 [[red underline]] None of the flash or noise of the Ostend crowds. [[/red underline]] Few foreign faces [[red underline]] Boys and girls promenading separately [[/red underline]] along the well paved dykes Among them many young dutchen in Uniform preparing for the sea in the local Navy school. This is the [[red underline]] main outlet of the River Scheldt, [[/red underline]] and now and then a passenger boat for overseas takes its course parallel to the Dykes, before swinging out Westward. One of them a Japanese Passenger Steamer, which left Antwerp in Belgium towards Yokohama. Perhaps the same I took in 1925 from Singapore to Marseilles. [[underline]] June 14. [[/underline]] [[left margin in red, underlined]] Middelburg [[/left margin in red]] Stopped here specially to ^[[re-]]visit the Capital of the province [[red underline]] Zeeland which is Middelburg [[/red underline]] and also [[red underline]] Veere. [[/red underline]] So took ^[[electric]] tram below the Dyke near the Hotel. a better way to mix with the people and observe them than to use a motor car or a horse carriage. [[red underline]] Tram car [[/red underline]] was clean & well kept, inside several young ladies going to school and studying their lessons, [[strikethrough]] or [[/strikethrough]] talking quietly to each other, or some men going to business. Now and then some women in their quaint Zeeland dress, [[red underline]] black robed, stiff aproned, bare arms on puff [[/red underline]] sleeves and a [[red underline]] white starched bonnet [[/red underline]] with white wings on each side and ornamented right and left with a spiral [[red underline]] gold [[/red underline]] or gilded ornament. The same costume I used to see them wear when they came to market in Ghent X Car put me down in the middle of the quaint market place X in my younger days.
