Things Seen in Holland
whose work is so highly thought of in Holland that it has been translated into the Dutch language, and is used as a textbook in the schools. The story has also been told by the Dutch historian Blok; it is a story of barbaric savagery on the part of the Spaniard, and of sturdy resistance and bloody retaliation on that of the Hollander.
To the present day is the Spaniard execrated throughout Holland, and it avails him not to speak French, with the object of concealing his nationality, which seems to be instinctively divined by the descendants of his ancestors' thousands of victims. Still, it must be recorded that during the war between Spain and the United States of America, Dutch national sentiment was rather with the ancient foe. This may be explained by the fact that the Dutch people felt that a small nation was being
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