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Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
any intelligence service to consider making
use of him. Dutourd was the man on the raft,
the owner of the Franklin, and the sequence of
events that had brought about their curious
proximity, separated by no more than twenty
feet of towline, was this: Dutourd, a man of
passionate enthusiasms, had like many others
at the time fallen in love with the idea of a terrestrial
Paradise to be founded in a perfect
climate, where there should be perfect equality
as well as justice, and plenty without excessive
labour, trade or the use of money, a true democracy,
a more cheerful Sparta; and unlike
most others he was rich enough to carry his
theories into something like practice, acquiring
this American-built privateer, manning her
with prospective settlers and a certain number
of seamen, most of the people being French
Canadians or men from Louisiana, and sailing
her to Moahu, an island well south of Hawaii,