Ramage and the Freebooters by Dudley Pope

Author:Dudley Pope
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Ramage & The Freebooters
ISBN: 9780755124633
Publisher: House of Stratus
Published: 2013-01-03T16:00:00+00:00

Just after nine o’clock the foremast lookout’s hail of ‘Deck there!’ stopped every man within hearing, and was followed by ‘Land ho! From two points on the starboard bow to one point to larboard, sir!’

‘You wall-eyed monkey,’ Southwick shouted, ‘why didn’t you sight it sooner? And how far?’

‘’Bout seven miles. Lot o’ haze ahead, sir,’ came the cheerful reply. ‘Must have lifted suddenly.’

Southwick glanced at Ramage. It was a good enough reason: the sun had heat in it now and haze over land in the early morning was not unusual, lifting as soon as the land heated up.

Ramage couldn’t resist saying, ‘Bit ahead of your reckoning, eh Mr Southwick? Between ten and noon I thought you said. Or was it nine and noon?’

‘Ten, sir,’ Southwick said ruefully. ‘Still, that’s–’

Seeing the Master was taking him seriously, Ramage interrupted: ‘But for the haze, it’d have been seven-thirty.’

‘But sir, after logging more than 2,900 miles…’

Ramage laughed. ‘Well, it’s a long way from Spithead, anyway!’

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