16 The Wine-Dark Sea - Libro della tutto

Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
site directions drew apart at fifteen or sixteen
knots, even with no topgallants abroad.
The Franklin, Captain Aubrey, headed west
to cruise upon the enemy until he should hear
that the Surprise had been docked and was
now fit for a passage of the Horn, that the
prizes had been disposed of, and above all
that Stephen, having accomplished what he
had set out to do, was ready to go home. The
Franklin would, he hoped with reasonable
confidence, send in prizes from time to time;
but in any event he had a fine half-decked
schooner-rigged launch belonging to the Alastor
that could be dispatched from well out in
the offing to fetch stores and news from Callao.
The Surprise, Captain Pullings, on the other
hand, stood a little south of east for Peru,
whose prodigious mountains were already
said to be visible from the masthead and