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A little further a pair of Steamer Ducks fluttered away 

 from the vessel. 



At last we landed at a pier at a good distance from 

 the lights of the "town". 



Of course there was no one to help me with my valize, 

 but the kind captain supplied me with a seaman to carry 

 it for me. 



The man (an Englishman) got hold of my valise and 

 ran right away from me into the darkness. 



Shouting brought him back to me. "Where are you 

 going my friend" I said", I believe I told you I wanted 

 to go to the inn". "Well Sir I was never here before" 

 was the answer. "I don't doubt it" I said "but you surely 

 must suspect that the houses are where we see the lights!" 



So asking my shrewd friend to follow me I steered 

 through the darkness to the town hoping to find the inn 

 called "-Hotel AlleiNcm". 



After a while I succeeded and found the hostess who 

 was a German. She asked if I wanted a first or a second 

 class room and upon my telling her that I wanted her 

 best firstclass room she showed me into a small locality 

 at the end of a long passage which had a bed and a 

 washingstand in it {notJdng else). 



The room looking clean, I said that I was satisfied and 

 asked her to prepare me some dinner which she promised. 



Her husband, an Englishman, having come in, in the 

 meantime, I told him that I wanted to go on to Jente 

 Grande next day. 



"Then you had better telephone" was the unexpected 

 and welcome answer. 



"You can do that at a store close by". 



So to the store I went and having used the telephone 

 got a most courteous answer with the offer of a saddle 

 horse and the use of a cart, which took goods to his place 

 from the steamer, for my luggage. 



I gladly accepted his offer and went back to my inn 

 hoping to get dinner. 



In a cleanlooking room was a dressed tabel on which 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, "Vol. XXXV. 



