16 The Wine-Dark Sea - Libro della tutto

Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
TWO
A reluctant dawn, a dim blood-red sun; and
although the sea was diminishing fast it was
still wilder than most sailors had ever seen,
with bursting waves and a still-prodigious
swell. A desolate ocean, grey now under a
deathly white, rolling with enormous force, but
still with no life upon it apart from these two
ships, now dismasted and tossing like paper
boats on a millstream. They were at some distance
from one another, both apparently
wrecks, floating but out of control: beyond
them, to windward, a newly-arisen island of
black rock and cinders. It no longer shot out
fire, but every now and then, with an enor-