CHAPTER I.

A Confession: the war: an adoption: confidence in fortune sometimes necessary: hateful character of a spy: a motive for travelling: a moral: anecdote of a royal description: miseries of a Dutch galliot: Calvin and Servetus: religion and a rope’s end: Dutch anecdote of fortitude: anecdote of a Newfoundland dog: appearance of Holland from the sea: its coast: a dilemma: the Maas river: anecdote of Napoleon: of a Dutch woman: a disaster: Rotterdam described: leaning houses 1