Section 8: King of the Vagabonds, pages 450-502 Summary

In the woods, Jack finds himself among a group of pagan worshippers who are pursued by witch hunters who assume Jack is one of the pagans. He manages to find a tunnel leading to Leibniz's silver mine, allowing him to escape. Back with Eliza, Jack asks if they can leave Germany now. Attracted by the amount of stuff moving to and from the city, Jack and Eliza head toward Amsterdam along with a parade of merchants and various others headed in the same direction. In Amsterdam, Eliza rents out the fourth story of a building in a strange neighborhood while Jack adjusts to the peculiarity of the city's buildings. Jack spends his days roaming the city while Eliza stays in a coffee house, learning about the trade of commodities though Jack...