Alan Lewrie 13 A King's Trade by Dewey Lambdin

Author:Dewey Lambdin
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Fred
Published: 2011-11-15T12:05:40+00:00

"Cape Town, or Simon's Town," Lewrie said with a shrug of resignation. "With any luck, we'll not be in either, very long, sir. In point of fact, 'twill require a great deal of luck should we come to anchor, at all!"

"The, ah . . . results of our sailors' deeds at Saint Helena, I should think, Captain?" Winwood, ever the sombre Christian, whispered.

"Exactly so, Mister Winwood," Lewrie agreed. "There's odds we might just sail right on by, do Captain Treghues and Captain Cowles, as Commodore of the Indiamen, concur."

"Might be just as well, sir," Winwood commented, though with a slightly disappointed sigh. "I've never really been ashore, here."

"The 'tavern of the seas,' Mister Winwood," Lewrie told him with a chuckle. "An infamous sink of sin, no matter the stiffness of the Protestant Dutch."

"Even so, though, sir . . ." Winwood said most wistfully.

"I wonder if they have corn-whisky?" Lewrie wondered aloud.

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