16 The Wine-Dark Sea - Libro della tutto

Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
a hogshead – for your clothes.'
After a short, dissatisfied silence Dr Maturin
said, 'It will be no news to you, sure, that the
whaler has slipped away, going, they tell me,
to Callao, if ever they can find the place God
be with them.'
'I had noticed it,' said Jack through his seapie.
'But you may not know that two of her men
forgot their pills entirely or that in his legitimate
agitation Padeen gave Smyth a liniment,
not telling him it was to be rubbed in rather
than drunk. However, nobody, nobody has
told me why we are rushing in this impetuous
manner through the turgid sea, with sailors
whose names I do not even know, rushing almost
directly away, to judge by the sun, away
from the Peru I had so longed to see and
which you had led me confidently to expect