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' The young man reddened and, still silent, looked down at his plate, but when De Pr6 dredged up a third humiliat- ing point-'Stay clear of the new vines'-Geertruyd had had enough. ” He stroked her damp hair. 'We don't know,' she said honestly, looking at her husband. 'I think not,' and with that simple affirmation, young Van Doorn became the first Dutchman to venture eastward toward those beckoning mountains.

“Now what?” she whispered. tament, the experiences of Abraham and Joshua in their wildernesses, the love stories of David and Puth. as from whom he could learn, and the pressings of 1661 were unpalatable as those at the start. It required thirteen days for the straggling fleet to reach the Straits south of the fortress, and when young Willem van Do