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just in front of the [[red underline]] City Hall [[/red underline]] where its lofty tower greeted me with the [[strikethrough]] h [[/strikethrough]] time tunes of its carillon belfry. [[red underline]] Streets narrow and crooked [[/red underline]] but kept [[red underline]] very clean. [[/red underline]] Walked around town met a very talkative tourist agent wo spoke English and who did not display much intelligence nor knowledge in his information. Saw ^[[Saw]] some [[red underline]] Bakelite cigar holders [[/red underline]] in a store, so bought one; on asking what it was they told me it was [[red underline]] Juvelith [[/red underline]]
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the name [[red underline]] Pollak  [[strikethrough]] go [[/strikethrough]] in Austria [[/red underline]] gave to his imitation product. [[strikethrough]] After [[/strikethrough]] There is a quiet old hotel among some trees behind the old abbey. It is called Hotel [[red underline]] de Abdy, [[/red underline]] looks very clean and impressive from the outside and reflects the general tone of the town. The great day to be here is Market day - on Thursday, where the men and women of the other Islands which make up Zeeland, come here in their quaint old costumes.
[[left margin in red]] Veere [[/left margin in red]]
[[black and red underline]] Veere. [[/black and red underline]] Took a little [[red underline]] motor bus [[/red underline]] to Veere about 11 A.M. which show a long paved street between [[strikethrough]] cult [[/strikethrough]] two rooms of trees along cultivated fields brought me about noon at the only [[strikethrough]] hotel in Veere, [[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]] Inn in Veere, [[/red underline]] [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] an old structure where the main meeting room is in a round tower, the window of which overlooks the sea and allow to watch passing boats as well as the ones that make the entrance alongside the hotel to Veere harbor, a very small harbor for small fishing sail-boats and an occasional small sail yacht 
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[[left margin in red]] Leeboards on Sail boats [[/left margin in red]]
Saw one of those [[red underline]] leeboard sail boats [[/red underline]] coming in with [[red underline]] loose footed sail. [[/red underline]] Saw her drop her forestay sail, then trice her [[strikethrough]] tack [[/strikethrough]] tack, then lower her mainsail very adroitly and make for the straight stone walls of the harbor. A ruddy thick faced fat Captain, who spoke some English invited me aboard. I found this was a [[red underline]] police-boat [[/red underline]] 
He ran her with [[red underline]] 3 men [[/red underline]] they were just cooking. Tells me his [[red underline]] mast is [[strikethrough]] are oregon pine [[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]] Oregon Cedar [[/red underline]] and his [[red underline]] planks are oak. [[/red underline]] He carried a small gasoline engine. Mostly all fishing boats now carry a small gasoline [[red underline]] or a Diesel auxiliary [[/red underline]] Boats was provided with the ubiquitous [[red underline]] lee-boards [[/red underline]] or "wings" as they call them. 
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Van Loon [[/left margin in red]] 
Went to the Inn for a bite. The [[red underline]] [[overwritten]] w [[/overwritten]] old lady [[/red underline]] who runs the hotel was very talkative. [[red underline]] She knew van Loon [[/red underline]] and his whole story of his [[red underline]] 3 wives, [[/red underline]] but not much about his fame as a writer. Tells every one of his wives have been here and wife No 2 left as wife No 3 arrived. Tells me he has left for Amerika and [[red underline]] his house  [[strikethrough]] it [[/strikethrough]] is for sale. [[/red underline]] When the landlady asked me what I wanted to eat, told her, preferred fish. - "Fish said she is the thing we never get here because all our fishermen carry their fish to Middelburg or Flushing!". The whole town has a quiet and casual air [[red underline]] tourist visitors are scarce [[/red underline]] and nobody pays them much attention. A sleepy well kept village

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