text:  On the rocks overhanging the Meuse at some distance from the town stands the village of Bouge fortified by Don John; to attain which by land hamlets and thickets were to be traversed; and it was pleasant to see the Walloon peasant children run forth from the cottages to salute the royal train making their heavy Flemish chargers swerve aside and perform their lumbering cabrioles far more deftly than the cannonading of the rebels to which they were almost accustomed