16 The Wine-Dark Sea - Libro della tutto

Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
drid, gave him the greatest satisfaction, for its
success would not only weaken the two oppressors
but it would also cause extreme anger
and frustration in a particular department
of French intelligence that was trying to bring
about the same result, though with the difference
that the independent South American
governments should feel loving and strategically
valuable gratitude towards Paris rather
than London.
He had had many causes for satisfaction
since they left the Polynesian island of Moahu
in pursuit of the Franklin. One was that the
American had chosen to rely on her remarkable
powers of sailing very close to the wind
on a course that was leading them directly towards
his destination; another was that although
her sailing-master, an old Pacific hand
from Nantucket, handled her with uncommon
skill, doing everything in his power to run clear