Hal heard the officer call softly in Dutch, Keep your spacing. A lunatic you say! But what will his excellency do when I bring himproof of how you have been rutting with the Colonel? Katinka froze at the threat then slowly lowered her whip arm. This wasknowledge that each navigator painstakingly accumulated over hislifetime, from his own observations or gleaned from the experience andanecdotes of others. But think howsweet it will be when we go aboard the Gull and take the steel tothem.
He made the sign of the cross over Hal's head,then laid two fingers on his brow. Although the coast and the immediate littoral were accurately recorded,the interior, as usual, had been left blank or filled with conjecture,apocryphal lakes and mountains that no eye had ever beheld. I will not think of her ever again, he promised himself, as he sank back onto the pallet and placed hishands over his ears to block out the lilting cadence of her voice. Aboli shook his head.
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