Erect, fair-haired, blue-eyed, tactful and informing, they are the true friends of the homeless!--And so on for many strophes.
To Texel I did not cross, although it is hard for any one who has read _The Riddle of the Sands_ to refrain.

Had we been there in the nesting season I might have wandered in search of the sea birds' and the plovers' eggs, just for old sake's sake, as I have in the island of Coll, but we were too late, and The Helder had depressed us.

It was off the Island of Texel on 31st July, 1653, that Admiral Tromp was killed during his engagement with the English under Monk.
Medemblik, situated on the point of a spur of land between The Helder and Enkhuisen, was once the residence of Radbod and the Kings of Frisia.

It is now nothing.

One good story at any rate may be recalled there.