16 The Wine-Dark Sea - Libro della tutto

Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
fish. Those fast to the gurt old bull ain't seen
us yet, watching so eager; but I dare say the
ship will give them a gun presently.'
Stephen gazed and gazed, the little figures
hurrying and jerking about in the distant
whaler, though clear, were perfectly mute, inaudible,
which added a ludicrous side to their
distress: some, including a man who was presumably
the master, since he beat and cuffed
the others, were struggling round the great trypots
set up amidships to melt the blubber –
struggling to get a gun clear of all the tryingout
gear, the casks and the general whalerlike
disorder.
'The man in the crow's nest seems very earnest
in urging them to go away to the right.
He leaps up and down.'
'Why, yes, sir. The Franklin lies there in the
west, Ain't you noticed?'