Friesland Meres And Through the Netherlands: the Voyage of a Family in a ...
Friesland Meres And Through the Netherlands: the Voyage of a Family in a ...
Henry Montagu Doughty
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'* What does he say, Pieter ? " " Oh, he asked me all about his parents, who live at a place we passed yesterday ! ! " We must have laid our quants in wrong end foremost, to account for our wretched luck to- day. The wind was S.W. by S. when we started ; after Langweerder Wielen our course was west, and the wind promptly veered round to due west ; past Ijlst we had to steer N.W., and the wind shifted to N.W. immediately. But if only it will keep steady now, we shall, when once past Bolsward, ha...ve a fair wind through the rest of Friesland. On the meres all winds are equally agreeable, provided they blow hard enough, and not too hard. We are never in a hurry, and having to tack from side to side, we only see a lake more thoroughly ; but a head-wind in such a poor carnal as this, the narrowest and shallowest we have yet encountered, means undeniable hard work. From our present lying-place the view was K 130 Friesland Meres. characteristic ; a flat green plain, extending to a circular horizon so regular that one might almost take the sun upon it, broken only here and there by a clump of trees round a red boerderij, or an upstanding church tower.
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