16 The Wine-Dark Sea - Libro della tutto

Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
miles, never to be seen again.
That was one torment to his spirit: another
was that this morning Captain Aubrey had
promoted Grainger, a forecastle-man in the
starboard watch, to fill the vacancy left by
Davidge's death, just as he had raised a
young fellow called Sam Norton to replace
Oakes. West had to admit that Grainger was
a capital seaman, a master-mariner who had
sailed his own brig on the Guinea run until he
was taken by two Salee rovers off Cape Spartel;
but he did not like the man at all. He had
already known what it was to be shut up in the
gunroom with a shipmate he detested, seeing
him at every meal, hearing his voice; and now
it seemed that he should have to go through
the odious experience again for at least the
breadth of the Pacific. Yet more than that, far
more, he felt that the gunroom and the quarterdeck,
the privileged places in a man-of-