THE ARCHERS: GAMES PLAYED IN BELGIUM
XIII. WHAT THE BELGIANS SPEAK
XIV. A SHORT HISTORY
XV. THE BELGIAN ARMY: THE CONGO
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
BY AMEDEE FORESTIER
A PEASANT WOMAN OF THE ARDENNES _frontispiece_
THE DUNES
A SHRIMPER ON HORSEBACK, COXYDE
THE VEGETABLE MARKET, BRUGES
ANTWERP
THE HOTEL DE VILLE, BRUSSELS
AT THE KERMESSE
A CHATEAU IN THE LESSE VALLEY
A FARMSTEADING
PLAYING "JEU DE BOULE" AT A FLEMISH INN
VILLAGE AND CANAL, ADINKERQUE
WATERLOO: THE FARM OF LA BELLE ALLIANCE AND THE
MOUND SURMOUNTED BY THE BELGIAN LION
A MILK-SELLER IN BRUGES _on the cover_
_Sketch-Map of Belgium._
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[Illustration: SKETCH-MAP OF BELGIUM.]
[Illustration: THE DUNES.]
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BELGIUM
CHAPTER I
THE SANDS OPPOSITE ENGLAND
If you leave the mouth of the Thames, or the white chalk cliffs at
Dover, and sail over the water just where the English Channel meets
the North Sea, you will in about three or four hours see before you a
long expanse of yellow sand, and rising behind it a low ridge of
sandhills, which look in the distance like a range of baby mountains.
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