16 The Wine-Dark Sea - Libro della tutto

Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
any more than he had with their animals, and
this in spite of the fact that they were together
day and night, since Eduardo kept to remote
trails far from all towns and frequented roads,
the llamas carrying everything needed for their
journey. It is true that they had seen two very
long caravans carrying ore down from the isolated
mines right up just under the snow-line,
but these only accentuated their loneliness,
not unlike that of a ship in mid-ocean. One
slight consolation was that by now only a few
of the more froward llamas spat at him. Up
and up; up and up; with his eyes fixed, unseeing,
on the gravelly soil and thin grass of the
track as it flowed steadily beneath his larboard
stirrup (a great hollowed block of wood)
Stephen's mind floated off ten thousand miles
to Diana and Brigit. How did they do? Was it
right in a man to marry and then to sail off to
the far side of the world for years on end?