After such an explanation, the genial Frenchman adds, we must not complain:-- Nos peres ont peches, nos peres ne sont plus, Et c'est nous qui portons la peine de leurs crimes.
The island of Walcheren is quickly learned.

From Middelburg one can drive in a day to the chief points of interest--Westcapelle and Domburg, Veere and Arnemuiden.

Of these Veere is the jewel--Veere, once Middelburg's dreaded rival, and in its possession of a clear sea-way and harbour her superior, but now forlorn.

For in the seventeenth century Holland's ancient enemy overflowed its barriers, and the greater part of Veere was blotted out in a night.

What remains is a mere symbol of the past; but there is enough to loiter in with perfect content, for Veere is unique.