16 The Wine-Dark Sea - Libro della tutto

Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
sea immediately below on the starboard roll
and closing his eyes again. 'I like it of all
things.'
'I am afraid you will not see much in the
south,' said Jack. He pointed his telescope
and kept it fixed while the mast upon which he
was poised went through its gyrations, swinging
his pigtail left and then right and then
straight out behind.
Watching it as he lay there coiled in the
straw, Stephen asked, 'How much do you suppose
we move, at all?'
'Well,' said Jack, still sweeping the southern
rim of the world, 'we are rolling about twenty
degrees and pitching let us say twelve: so at
this height the roll should carry us some seventy-five
feet and the pitch forty-five. And we
describe a tolerably angular ellipse. Are you
sure it don't worry you?'