16 The Wine-Dark Sea - Libro della tutto

Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
ordinary kind.'
'Look out to leeward, a little afore the beam,
and you will see one a long way out of the ordinary.'
'It was not there when we set to breakfast,'
said Joe Plaice.
'And to leeward too, oh dear, oh dear,' said
Johnson. 'God bless us.'
'Amen,' said the others.
Far over, in the ill-defined region between
sea and sky, there was an iridiscent patch,
roughly oval, of the size that an outstretched
hand might cover; and its colours, sometimes
faint, sometimes surprisingly vivid, shifted right
through the spectrum.
'A wind-gall to windward means rain, as you
know very well,' said Jack. 'But a wind-gall to
leeward means very dirty weather indeed. So
Joe, you had better make another cast: let us