16 The Wine-Dark Sea - Libro della tutto

Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
down for the fresh green on the other side.'
'Perhaps we may get a shot at him,' said
Stephen. 'You yourself said that you were tired
of fried guinea-pig and ham.'
'So I did,' said Eduardo, and then, hesitantly,
'But, dear don Esteban, it would grieve me if
you were to kill him. The Incas have always
protected the vicuña and even the Spaniards
leave him alone in general. My followers
would take it very ill.'
'Sure, he is safe from me. Yet my best poncho
is made from vicuña's wool.'
'Certainly. They are killed from time to time,
and by certain people... There is our condor.'
There he was indeed, black in a dark blue
sky, wheeling towards his still-distant cliff. They
watched him out of sight. Stephen did not return
to the vicuña: Eduardo was embarrassed
and there was obviously some question of the