He dismounted painfully outside the front door, staggering a little before he was able to stand steadily on his feet. One of the grooms had taken his horse by the reins and reached out to support him, but Sir Francis’s brushed him aside, but politely and with a smile. Then he turned and made his ...
Their minds were further persuaded by a fortunate change in the wind, which began to blow in our favour from the northeast, the very wind to carry us down the coast of Portugal. The soldiers were ordered back to the ships, loading what provisions they could and destroying what little was left in ...
This was the gossip on the streets, in the ale houses, among our patients. Anything else was too terrifying to confront. But at last this collective wilful blindness was swept away as rumours spread and were accepted as the truth. The tangible reality of the ships being built in Spain became comm...