scheviningen

Updated: June 14, 2025

For an hour I lounged in a Cantonese chair beneath the leisurely swinging punkah the motive power for the punkah being provided by a native on the verandah outside, who mechanically pulled the cord even while he slept and chatted of homely things: of a restaurant which we both knew on the Dam in Amsterdam, of bathing on the sands of Scheviningen, of band concerts on summer evenings in the Haagsche Bosch.

E. Alexander (Edward Alexander) Powell - Where the Strange Trails Go Down: Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits: Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam,: Cochin-China