maybe don t wave it too close! i mean, it s not great! it s not great, no! is that what the canal would ve smelled like here? there are, indeed, elements of, yeah, a polluted canal smell, so it has sulphur. it has a kind of bathroom smell, yeah. yes, excrement, urine components in there. but it s also, the sulphuric component also leads you from the water to the military might, to the gunpowder that was actually stored in this building. this is the headquarters or used to be the headquarters of the dutch admiralty, so they were the military force that went with the east india company to actually enforce labour, to use make use of all kinds of violence to get that luxury spice trade into the dutch republic.