Things Seen in Holland
the passage round the headland known as Cape Horn, and gave the latter the name of his native city. Another Hoorner's name, Abel Tasman, lives in Tasmania; he discovered both that island and New Zealand.
Reference has been made to the death of three of William the Silent's brothers on the battlefield. Two of them, Counts Louis and Henry of Nassau, were defeated and slain by the Spaniards at Mook, a tiny place in Limburg, on the heath of Mook, in 1574. Gallantly they rode in a desperate charge into the ranks of the enemy, never to be seen again. For centuries has the name of the locality served as a curse. A Dutchman will wish another on the Mookerheide: “Ik wou dat hij op de Mookerheide zat” (“I wish you were on the heath of Mook”).
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