16 The Wine-Dark Sea - Libro della tutto

Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
am to see you so brisk. Although we reached
here in such good time I was afraid you might
be too tired to see my lake. Do you think that
after say an hour's rest you would like to go?
There is some cloud in the east, and as you
know winds sometimes get up in the evening;
but an hour's rest would still leave us time.'
'Dear Eduardo,' said Stephen, 'the earlier we
go the more we shall see. I fairly dote on alpine
lakes, and this one as I recall has a fine
fringe of reeds.'
It had indeed a fine fringe of reeds, a very
fine deep fringe, unique in Stephen Maturin's
extensive experience of reeds in that they grew
not out of glutinous mud but from a layer of
broken stones brought down by some not far
distant combination of earthquake and flood
from one of the nearby glaciers. This allowed
them to walk out dryfoot with their guns and
spyglasses, leaving Molina on a long tether