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Updated: June 7, 2025
Greatly to my surprise, the boat, instead of continuing down the Scheldt, and so making the circuit of the island of South Beveland, entered the island, when it reached a certain point, passing through a narrow canal that crosses or rather cuts the island apart, and so joins the two branches of the river that encircles it.
"I have a card to deliver from an acquaintance whom you have not mentioned," he said; "and I rather think it will astonish you." It simply puzzled me. "Well?" said the Chaplain. "Well," I answered; "I never even heard of Mrs. Tenbruggen, of South Beveland. Who is she?" "I married the lady to a foreign gentleman, only last week, at my friend's church," the Chaplain replied.
At four o'clock, after the squadron had passed Beveland, and entered the Belgian territory, Paul went down to recite his Greek, as usual. He could not help seeing that Mr. Hamblin's lip quivered, and that he was laboring under strong emotions, when he took his place at the mess table.
The British army suffered and died in great numbers at Walcheren and South Beveland, in the middle of the last century. Pringle described the sad condition of those troops, and warned his nation against a similar exposure; yet, sixty years later, the Ministry sent another army to the same place, to sink under the malarious influences and diseases in the same way.
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