16 The Wine-Dark Sea - Libro della tutto

Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
'Very true,' cried Pullings and Grainger. 'Very
true. Hear him.'
'For my part,' Jack went on, 'I shall not repine
if we meet nothing off the Horn. We have to
pass that way in any case; and if our hurry
makes us no richer, why, it carries us home
the sooner. I long to see my new plantations.'
'I do not like the prospect of this Horn,' said
Stephen in a low voice, 'or all this haste to
reach it. This is in every way a most exceptional
year – cranes have been seen flying
north over Lima! – and the weather down
there is sure to be more disagreeable than
ever.'
'But you have wonderful sea-legs, Doctor,'
said Adams. 'And if we crack on we shall – we
may – reach the height of the Horn at a capital
time for the passage: barely a ripple, I
have been told, with picnics on the island it-