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Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
hold and some other troops soon after I
had met the last of our friends here who
were still in Lima and he is already ten
days' journey along the road.
I could not have come at a more fortunate
moment, when the Viceroy had
alienated so many of the Creoles and
so much of the army; when the desire
for independence had risen to such a
height; when he was about to remove
himself and his surest friends from the
capital; and when the ground had been
to a certain extent prepared. It would
perhaps have been wiser to start with
Chile, where Bernardo O'Higgins (close
kin to our Vicar-General) has so considerable
a following; but given the present
aspect of affairs, to say nothing of
my direct, explicit instructions, I believe
we may do very well here. It is true that