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"The ambassador Pietro Contarini and his chaplain Orazio Busino are in Rotterdam, dining with the city council. Busino describes the toasts and drinking of the evening; they embark the boat that departs at 2h and sleep on the boat. In the morning, from the boat, they see the canal that leads to Antwerp and note the 72 towers of drowned towns in the sea. At 16u, they let the courier disembark for Middelburg with the consent letters of Maurice to provide England with a warship, and at 18u, the rest arrives in Vlissingen. There lies the ship that will bring the ambassador to England. Busino notes the provisions on board."
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