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Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
to dissect him.'
'That would mean fried guinea-pig again,'
observed Eduardo.
'Not if we confine our attention to his bones,'
said Stephen. 'A bird, very gently seethed for
some hours, will always leave his bones in the
pot. You will say that his flesh is not that of the
same bird roasted, which is very true; but how
much better, even so, than our eternal guineapig.'
The monastery of which Eduardo had spoken
was five days journey to the south-east, but the
prospect of the altiplano rheas, the salt lakes
with their different kinds of flamingo, and the
unending deserts of pure white salt itself lent
Stephen Maturin wings and, helped by unnaturally
kind weather, they reached the high
lonely mission in four although they were
loaded with the spoils of Lake Titicaca – the