genious Japanese model of the Island of Desina, the
Dutch factory in Japan. It appears almost as the island itself would if
seen through a reversed opera glass and makes one feel like a Gulliver
coming unexpectedly upon a Japanese Lilliput. There you see hundreds of
people in native costumes, standing, kneeling, stooping, reaching--all
at work, or pretending to be--and their dwellings, even their very
furniture, spread out before you, plain as day. In another room a huge
tortoiseshell dollhouse, fitted up in Dutch style and inhabited by
dignified Dutch dolls, stands ready to tell you at a glance how people
live in Holland.

Gretel, Hilda, Katrinka, even the proud Rychie Korbes would have been
delighted with this, but Peter and his gallant band passed it by without
a glance. The war implements had the honor of detaining them for an
hour; such clubs, such murderous krits, or daggers, such firearms, and,
above all, such wonderful Japanese swords, quite capable of performing
the accredited Japanese feat of cutting a man in two at a single stroke!

There were Chinese and other Oriental curiosities in the collection.
Native historical relics, too, upon which our young Dutchmen gazed very
soberly, though they were secretly proud to show them to Ben.

There was a model of the cabin at Saardam in which Peter the Great lived
during his short career as ship-builder. Also, wallets and bowls--once
carried by the "Beggar" Confederates, who, uniting under the Prince
of Orange, had freed Holland from the tyranny of Spain; the sword
of Admiral van Speyk, who about ten years before had perished in
voluntarily blowing up his own ship; and Van Tromp's armor with the
marks of bullets upon it. Jacob looked around, hoping to see the broom
which the plucky admiral fastened to his masthead, but it was not there.
The waistcoat which William Third *{William, Prince of Orange, who
became king of England, was a great-grandson of William the Silent,
Prince of Orange, who was murdered by Geraerts (or Gerard) July 10,
1584.} of England wore during the last days of his life, possessed great
interest for Ben, and one and all gazed with a mixture of reverence
and horror-worship at the identical clothing worn by William the Silent
*{see above} when he was murdered at Delft by Balthazar Geraerts. A
tawny leather doublet and plain surcoat of gray cloth, a soft felt hat,
and a high neck-ruff from which hung one of the "Beggars'" medals--these
were not in t