16 The Wine-Dark Sea - Libro della tutto

Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
sail in any event.'
'You do not fear losing the prize?'
'Certainly I fear losing the prize: I should
never say anything so unlucky as No, she is
ours. I may lose her, of course; but you saw
her start her water over the side, did you not?'
'Sure I saw the water and the guns; and I saw
how she drew away, free of all that weight. I
spent a few moments liberating poor Mr Martin
from behind the seat of ease where the
wreckage had imprisoned him and he so
squeamish about excrement, the creature, and
when I looked up again she was much
smaller, flying with a supernatural velocity.'
'Yes, she holds a good wind. But she cannot
cross the Pacific with what very little water she
may have left – they pumped desperate hard
and I saw ton after ton shoot into the sea – so
she must double back to Moahu. The Sand-