16 The Wine-Dark Sea - Libro della tutto

Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
peccant members.'
'How did you do that, sir?' asked Reade, unwilling
to hear though eager to be told.
'Why, with a chisel, as soon as we came
down to the village. They could not be left to
mortify, with gangrene spreading, the grief
and the sorrow. But for a while I was reduced
to immobility; and that was where my noble
friend Eduardo showed his magnanimity. He
caused a framework to be made, fitting over a
man's chest fore and aft – fore and aft,' he repeated
with a certain satisfaction, 'and allowing
me to be carried on his shoulders or
somewhat lower, sitting at my ease and facing
backwards. They call it an Inca chair; and in
this Inca chair I was carried over those terrible
Inca bridges that span stupendous chasms –
hanging bridges that sway – and I was always
carried by fresh and powerful Indians recruited
by my friend an Indian himself and a descen-