16 The Wine-Dark Sea - Libro della tutto

Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
My dear, he wrote on the half-sheet in
question, this is the merest hasty scribble
to bring you both my fondest love
from our most recent port of call, and to
tell you that all is well with us, except for
poor Martin, who has been obliged to
be sent home for his health. With the
blessing, this note will reach you some
three months before he arrives: please
tell his wife that I am confident she will
see him quite restored.
This is a pleasant climate, for gentle
sea-breezes temper the heat; but they
assure me it never rains at all, not at all,
ever; and although there are damp fogs
throughout the winter they are not
enough to relieve the almost total sterility
of the desert, stony or sandy, that lies
along the coast, the virtual absence of