They would therefore levy on the Netherlands for payment of their debt.

Certainly this was a logical deduction.

They knew by experience that this process had heretofore excited more indignation in the minds of the Netherland people than in that of their master.

Moreover, at this juncture, they cared little for their sovereign's displeasure, and not at all for that of the Netherlanders.

By the middle of July, then, the mutineers, now entirely beyond control, held their officers imprisoned within their quarters at Zierickzee.