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Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
rid of all you can. Padeen will bring you a
rack of necessary-bottles and I trust I shall see
them filled by morning: but I cannot wait to
get you ashore and to start more radical
measures; for indeed, colleague, there is not
a moment to lose.'
There was not a moment to be lost, and
happily the harbour formalities in Callao bay
did not take long, the Surprise and her valuable
train being so welcome to the agent, who
had dealt with her prizes on the outward voyage,
and to his brother, the captain of the
port: as soon as they were over Stephen went
ashore pulled by Jemmy Ducks in his little
skiff. Well over on the left hand they passed a
remarkable amount of shipping for so small a
town: vessels from Chile, Mexico and farther
north, and at least two China ships. 'Right on
our beam, beyond the yellow schooner, in the
dockyard itself, that must be the barque from