South Africa: a Sketch book of Men, Manners And Facts
South Africa: a Sketch book of Men, Manners And Facts
James Stanley Little
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The Zuyder Zee is to be drained and embanked with dykes. The people are prosperous, and socially and materially they can put to shame many of the citizens of more important countries. Foreign relationship? wear, unfortunately, a more serious aspect. Mr. Van Tromp deliberately stated to me, that he thought Germany was only awaiting her opportunity, to endeavour to annex the whole of the country between her and the seaboard of the German ocean, thus making that great northern sea literally German...ic, as well as in name. Despite the Hollander's national disposition which is notoriously phlegmatic and wanting in enthusiasm, he would not, my infor- mant felt sure, allow the little kingdom which possesses such a magnificent heritage of past glory, to be wiped out and mono- pohsed by Germany, without making a desperate struggle for his national life, and for the integrity of the national territory. Like William the Silent "we will pull down the dykes and swamp the country rather than submit to this degradation ".
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