After spending some time in Antwerp, we were invited to go with a
part of a half-dozen persons on a trip through Holland. This
party included Edward Marshall and some American artists who had
come over on the same steamer with us. We accepted the
invitation, and enjoyed the trip greatly. I think it was all the
more interesting and instructive because we went for most of the
way on one of the slow, old-fashioned canal-boats. This gave us
an opportunity of seeing and studying the real life of the people
in the country districts. We went in this way as far as
Rotterdam, and later went to The Hague, where the Peace
Conference was then in session, and where we were kindly received
by the American representatives.
The thing that impressed itself most on me in Holland was the
thoroughness of the agriculture and the excellence of the
Holstein cattle. I never knew, before visiting Holland, how much
it was possible for people to get out of a small plot of ground.
It seemed to me that absolutely no land was wasted. It was worth
a trip to Holland, too, just to get a sight of three or four
hundred fine Holstein cows grazing in one of those intensely
green fields.
From Holland we went to Belgium, and made a hasty trip through
that country, stopping at Brussels, where we visited the
battlefield of Waterloo.
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