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On the Willebroek Canal. 1 7
forward, the Etna voyaged like a gentleman in
the locker of the Cigarette.
It is almost unnecessary to mention that
when lunch was over and we got aboard again
and made sail, the wind promptly died away.
The rest of the journey to Villevorde, we still
spread our canvas to the unfavouring air ; and
with now and then a puff, and now and then
a spell of paddling, drifted along from lock to
lock, between the orderly trees.
It was a fine, green, fat landscape ; or rather a
mere green water-lane, going on from village to
village. Things had a settled look, as in places
long lived in. Crop-headed children spat upon
us from the bridges as we went below, with a
true conservative feeling. But even more con-
servative were the fishermen, intent upon their
floats, who let us go by without one glance.
They perched upon sterlings and buttresses and
along the slope of the embankment, gently
forward, the Etna voyaged like a gentleman in
the locker of the Cigarette.
It is almost unnecessary to mention that
when lunch was over and we got aboard again
and made sail, the wind promptly died away.
The rest of the journey to Villevorde, we still
spread our canvas to the unfavouring air ; and
with now and then a puff, and now and then
a spell of paddling, drifted along from lock to
lock, between the orderly trees.
It was a fine, green, fat landscape ; or rather a
mere green water-lane, going on from village to
village. Things had a settled look, as in places
long lived in. Crop-headed children spat upon
us from the bridges as we went below, with a
true conservative feeling. But even more con-
servative were the fishermen, intent upon their
floats, who let us go by without one glance.
They perched upon sterlings and buttresses and
along the slope of the embankment, gently
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Written and printed matter > Books |
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1878 [Date published] |
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Europe >
Belgium >
Flanders >
Antwerpen province >
Antwerp
(inhabited place) [Place in text] Europe > France > Île-de-France > Val-d'Oise > Cergy-Pontois (inhabited place) [Place in text] Europe > United Kingdom > England > Greater London > London (inhabited place) [Place published] |
Subject / content: |
Description Travel Canoes |
Person / organisation: |
Crane, Walter, 1845-1915 [Illustrator] Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 [Author] Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 [Subject of text] C. Kegan Paul & Co. [Publisher] |
Person / organisation: |
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 [Author] |
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