16 The Wine-Dark Sea - Libro della tutto

Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
you come in with the Cacafuego at your tail,
sir. And many a time when you came aboard
Euryalus, Captain Dundas, Captain Heneage
Dundas, in Pompey: I was one of the sidemen.'
'Well, Shelton,' said Jack, after a question or
two for conscience' sake, 'If you choose to return
to your natural service, to enter volunteerly,
you shall have the bounty and I will find
you a suitable rating.'
'Thank you kindly, your honour,' said Shelton,
'but what I mean is, we cleared from Callao
on the seventh, and while we were getting our
stores aboard – tar, cordage, sail-cloth and
stockfish – there was a merchantman belonging
to Liverpool, homeward-bound from the
northwards, in dock, tightening up for her run
round the Horn. We cleared on the seventh
which it was a Tuesday, homeward-bound too
though not really full: not a right good voy-