16 The Wine-Dark Sea - Libro della tutto

Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
approach some quite lofty ground – not the
puna, you understand, but quite lofty – and
my nephew will be here this morning to look
at one of our llama stations. If only the
weather were not so disagreeable he could
show you something of the country. I spoke of
you when last we met, and he begged me to
present him. 'Ah,' cried he, clasping his hands,
'someone at last who can tell me of the birds
of the southern ocean!''
'I should be charmed to tell him what little I
know,' said Stephen. 'And surely the weather is
not so very severe?'
'Eduardo would not think so,' replied Father
Gómez. 'But then he is a great hunter. And he
creeps up mountains through ice and snow:
he is made of brass. He had climbed Pinchincha,
Chimborazo, Cotopaxi itself.'
Stephen had rarely taken to a new acquaint-