16 The Wine-Dark Sea - Libro della tutto

Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
table diet. The same is to be said for several
of our patients.'
'We have so often known it to be the case,'
said Martin. 'In parenthesis, may I tell you a
strange thing? Some hours ago, as I was coming
out of a blessed doze, I thought I heard a
sea-lion bark, and my heart lifted with happiness,
as it did when I was a boy, or even in
New South Wales. How close are we to the
shore?'
'I cannot tell, but they said before we parted
company – for the Captain is standing to the
westward: he leaves you his particular compliments
– that the Cordillera was distinctly to
be seen from the masthead; and there may
well be some rocky islands close at hand
where sea-lions live. For my own part I have
seen a file of pelicans, and they are not birds
to go far from land.'