Nelson: the Poisoned River
“Not five miles from the battery they’d taken, according to the dozen Spaniards they had captured, lay the San Juan keep, with its surrounding huts and pens. Grateful at having been rescued from the Mosquito men – who had assumed that they were theirs by right of conquest – they held nothing back. And swore, also, that no one had escaped to give a warning.
Polson, cockahoop at the almost bloodless victory, was prepared to believe them, but Nelson and Despard indeed were not. When Tim Hastie ...returned – intent on making Nelson rest, and eat, and catch up on lost sleep if only for an hour – he was too late.
‘Gone?’ he asked of Mounsey (feeling sadly like a country booby). ‘Gone where? How? When?’ He did not really need to ask, but it was soon confirmed. A canoe with six stout native paddlers had set out to go upstream, against a current which would get stronger as it neared the rapids below the fort. Polson had cautioned them to wait until the morrow, which had made Nelson more determined.MoreLess
Polson, cockahoop at the almost bloodless victory, was prepared to believe them, but Nelson and Despard indeed were not. When Tim Hastie ...returned – intent on making Nelson rest, and eat, and catch up on lost sleep if only for an hour – he was too late.
‘Gone?’ he asked of Mounsey (feeling sadly like a country booby). ‘Gone where? How? When?’ He did not really need to ask, but it was soon confirmed. A canoe with six stout native paddlers had set out to go upstream, against a current which would get stronger as it neared the rapids below the fort. Polson had cautioned them to wait until the morrow, which had made Nelson more determined.MoreLess
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