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Tenderness, I hear you cry, in a Hollandois! But hold your injustice; the character and fine heart of Van Rensselaer will, I think, in future, remove your prejudice, especially when you add to this his marked attention and civility. Saturday, 12th December. Van Rensselaer finds fault with my quarters, which, indeed, are far removed from elegance, and, in some respects, from convenience.
"A vessel loaded with creeses manufactured at Menancabo and a great quantity of artillery; a species of warlike machine known and fabricated in Sumatra many years before they were introduced by Europeans." "Menangcabo lies eight or ten leagues inland of Priaman." " A man arrived from Menangcaboo at Ticoo, and brought news from Jambee." Vies des Gouverneurs Gen. Hollandois, 1763.
Premier Livre de l'Histoire de la Navigation aux Indes Orientales, par les Hollandois. Amsterd, folio, 1558. Le Second Livre. Amsterd. 1609, folio. Relatio de Rebus in India Orientale, a Patribus. Soc. Jesu. 1598-1599, peractis, Mayence, 1601. 8vo. The preceding works give an interesting picture of the East Indies during the 16th century. Beschrievyng van oude niewe Ostinden. Von. F. Valyntyn.
Ah quel bon pays est celui-la pour les vivres, pour les petits poulets, pour les poulardes, pour les perdrix, pour les perdreaux, pour les alouettes, pour les becasses, pour les becassines, enfin, pour tout." "Pray, sir, are you a cook?" demanded I. "Monsieur, je le suis pour vous rendre service, mon nom c'est Gerard, et j'ai l'honneur d'etre chef de cuisine chez monsieur le consul Hollandois.
Some of the above works, as well as others relating to attempts to discover a north-west and north-east passage, are inserted in Harris and Churchill's Collections. Les Trois Navigations faites par les Hollandois au Septentrion. Par Gerard de Ver. Paris, 1610. 8vo. This contains Barentz's Voyages. Histoire des Peches, des Découvertes, &c. des Hollandois, dans la Mer du Nord.
Un homme examinoit un dessin representant la coupe d'un vaisseau construit en Hollande; quelqu'un lui dit, "Est-ce que monsieur entend le Hollandois?" Un homme de loi disoit qu'on ne pouvait pas faire une stipulation valable avec un muet. Un des ecoutans lui dit, "Monsieur le docteur, et avec un boiteux, seroit-elle bonne?"
"Hast thou Stoupe's Religion des Hollandois?" he asked, with a sudden thought. "Inquire elsewhere," snapped the bookseller surlily. "Et tu, Brute!" said Spinoza, smiling. "Dost thou also join the hue and cry? Methinks heresy should nourish thy trade. A wilderness of counterblasts, treatises, tractlets, pasquinades the more the merrier, eh?" The bookseller stared.
Tenderness, I hear you cry, in a Hollandois! But hold your injustice; the character and fine heart of Van Rensselaer will, I think, in future, remove your prejudice, especially when you add to this his marked attention and civility. Saturday, 12th December. Van Rensselaer finds fault with my quarters, which, indeed, are far removed from elegance, and, in some respects, from convenience.
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