16 The Wine-Dark Sea - Libro della tutto

Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
sound mighty deep – I have known one take
out the line of four boats an-end, eight hundred
fathom, can you imagine it? – and when
they come up they are apt to turn awkward
and snap your boat in two. But may I say,
Doctor,' he added in a hesitant murmur, 'I saw
your mate catting over the side – to windward,
poor soul – and then he went below, looking
right sickly. Could he have eaten something,
do you suppose?'
'Perhaps he may. Though possibly it is the
lively motion of the ship, with these short sudden
seas and all this spray.'
'To be sure, the breeze is dead against the
current now: and the stream has grown
stronger with the main not so very far away.'
However, Martin seemed reasonably well for
their morning rounds, though the sea was livelier
still, and the ship pitched with more than