16 The Wine-Dark Sea - Libro della tutto

Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
of twenty weeks. These funds have been in my
hands for an even greater time.'
'Certainly. Some information about our undertaking
had been betrayed to Spain' –
Gayongos nodded – 'and it was thought expedient
that I should change to another ship,
rejoining the Surprise at a stated rendezvous.
An intelligent plan, and one that would have
caused no great delay; but it did not foresee
that this second vessel should be wrecked in a
remote part of the East Indies, nor that the inevitable
pauses in Java and New South Wales
should eat up days, weeks, months that will
never return.'
'And in that period,' said Gayongos in a discontented
voice, 'the situation here has
changed radically: Chile is now a very much
more suitable plan for the enterprise, the
whole series of undertakings.'