16 The Wine-Dark Sea - Libro della tutto

Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
oners in. 'Not Dutourd?' cried he, and then in
a low voice, 'That might be impolitic.' Now this
is rather delicate and I am puzzled quite how
to put it. Let us eat our pudding, if we are allowed
any pudding on such short notice, and
when we reach port perhaps my intellects will
shine out afresh.'
They were allowed pudding, but only apologetical
fancies such as sago, summer's pudding
made with what Peru could afford, and
mere rice, rather than those true puddings
based on suet, which called for hours and
hours in the copper.
Jack told Sam of a fine great sago-palm forest
in the island of Ceram in which he had
walked with his midshipmen and how they had
laughed at the spectacle – a sago-forest!
These trifles, barely worth attention, were soon
dispatched; the cloth was drawn, the port set
on Jack's right hand, and Grimble was told