Marken and its people : being some account written from time to time both during and after visits covering some considerable space of time ... . nr^HE Marken people are intensely jealous ofthe Volendammers, whom they hate morethan any of the other villagers on the call all of the people on the shore foreign-ers and sniff contemptuously when one speaksof Broek, or Edam, and as for Purmerend, thosePurmerenders are quite beyond them; they reallyare unable to express their feelings. Mentionof Alkmaar and its cheese market, or any of thecoast towns, will cause them to regard you withs
Marken and its people : being some account written from time to time both during and after visits covering some considerable space of time ... . nr^HE Marken people are intensely jealous ofthe Volendammers, whom they hate morethan any of the other villagers on the call all of the people on the shore foreign-ers and sniff contemptuously when one speaksof Broek, or Edam, and as for Purmerend, thosePurmerenders are quite beyond them; they reallyare unable to express their feelings. Mentionof Alkmaar and its cheese market, or any of thecoast towns, will cause them to regard you withsuspicion, from which you will long suffer theirdispleasure. So that it is best to weigh wellyour words and the subject of your conversationon the island, if you value your comfort. In 50. *!ll«i ii>l»«*hLr»i i THE PATROON SOME CHARACTERISTICS 51 all these matters I was fortunately guided by mygood friend, Jan Appel. The skipper of theVrouwe Geertje, too, cautioned me as to my con-duct when he learned that I contemplated a stayof several weeks upon Marken. The sail over the shallow waters of theGouwzee in the Vrouwe Geertje is interestingand picturesque. The boat is a typical fishingcraft, clumsy in shape, shining with varnish andstrips of scoured brass. It has excellent sailingqualities, and when the huge oaken lee boardsat each side are dropped, she can sail up into theeye of the wind in a remarkable manner. Thesail takes about an hour when the wind is fair,but the skipper tells me that in the winter whenthe Gouwzee is frozen over, the distance be-tween Monninkendam and the island has beencovered in four minutes on skates I If I dis-believed this statement of his, I took good carenot to show it, as he watched me narrowly to seehow I took it. Then he said, Those
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