... interest in sport in Friesland, in excavations in Maastricht, in ships and quays and docks in Rotterdam and Amsterdam, and in hospitals and orphanages everywhere Anecdotes came into existence the ... everywhere, and always turns up again in the old haunts, bristling with interesting information, visibly enjoying his busy, full life, and not without a certain vanity, arising from the feeling that ... adversary stands higher in culture and intellect, and is also more enterprising, than the great majority of the Dutch peasants He welcomes many inventions, and is willing to risk something in trying...