16 The Wine-Dark Sea - Libro della tutto

Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
This satisfaction continued throughout the
week, or rather more. Stephen, who was often,
almost invariably, in the way on deck
when complex work was being carried out,
wrote a commentary on it for Diana: Mariners:
Consensus and Cohesion in certain States of
Adversity, together with Some Remarks on Peruvian
Cirripedes for the Royal Society.
For the most part the weather was kind, the
wind, though often boisterous, steady in the
west; and although they had frequent rain and
two blinding snow-storms there was no ice
about and the temperature was nearly always
above freezing by day. They were still without
a rudder, but until one could be fashioned
and above all hung, they had a steering oar
over the quarter that allowed a point or two of
northerly deviation from their steady eastward
course. By the end of this time three sad little