The Affectionate Adversary
“The captain of the Queen Elinor walked across the deck. “All dead. All lost.”
Sarah held her handkerchief in a clenched fist as she watched the man survey the devastation of the English clipper Tintagel. Too late, the rescue vessel had arrived upon the scene of the sea battle. By the time the Queen Elinor sailed into position near the beleaguered ship, the pirates had killed nearly every man aboard, stripped everything valuable, and sailed north toward the Malabar Coast.
Hoping to save those few yet living, the captain had chosen not to go in pursuit of the pillagers. Instead, his sailors had boarded the foundering clipper, put out fires, transferred the dead and dying, and salvaged what remained of the captain’s logs and journals. Those men who had survived the pirate attack were taken to the Queen Elinor’s mess hall, where a small hospital had been hastily set up. Tables became beds; every passenger donated blankets and bedding. The ship’s physician hurried from one patient to the n...ext, occasionally shaking his head in dismay.MoreLess
Sarah held her handkerchief in a clenched fist as she watched the man survey the devastation of the English clipper Tintagel. Too late, the rescue vessel had arrived upon the scene of the sea battle. By the time the Queen Elinor sailed into position near the beleaguered ship, the pirates had killed nearly every man aboard, stripped everything valuable, and sailed north toward the Malabar Coast.
Hoping to save those few yet living, the captain had chosen not to go in pursuit of the pillagers. Instead, his sailors had boarded the foundering clipper, put out fires, transferred the dead and dying, and salvaged what remained of the captain’s logs and journals. Those men who had survived the pirate attack were taken to the Queen Elinor’s mess hall, where a small hospital had been hastily set up. Tables became beds; every passenger donated blankets and bedding. The ship’s physician hurried from one patient to the n...ext, occasionally shaking his head in dismay.MoreLess
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