By Arturo Perez-Reverte
This used to be a time whilst Spain was once respected, feared, and hated within the easterly seas; while the satan had no colour, no identify, and no flag; and while the single factor had to summon hell on the earth (or sea) used to be a Spaniard and his sword.
followed by way of his devoted foster son, Íñigo, Captain Alatriste accepts a task as a mercenary aboard a Spanish galleon. The send units sail from Naples on a trip that would take them to a couple of the main remote-and wretched-outposts of the empire: Morocco, Algeria, and at last to Malta for a gorgeous and bloody conflict at the excessive seas that would problem even the battle-hardened Alatriste's get to the bottom of.
Now seventeen, Íñigo is sort of able to go away Alatriste, his foster father and fellow soldier. yet will age and adventure convey knowledge, or is he prone to repeat lots of his mentor's error?
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Behind us, near the mainmast, we heard someone ask Captain Urdemalas if they could light the poop-deck lantern, to which he replied that if anyone lit anything, however small, he would personally dash their brains out. 'As for rich soldiers,' Captain Alatriste said after a while, as if he had been turning over my words in his mind, 'I've never yet met one who was rich for very long. ' There was a significant pause, brief enough for it not to sound like a reproach, but long enough for it to be just that.
And in order to remain safely out of sight of Moorish eyes, we anchored not in the lagoon, but in the narrow inlet of Galapagos cove, sheltered by Melilla's soaring walls and towers. The town's imposing appearance was just that — mere appearance — as I was able to see for myself when I set off to wander through the close-packed, treeless streets and along the city walls. While the galley-captain haggled over a price for the slaves, I saw how neglected it all was. Eight centuries of struggle against Islam had died on that wretched frontier and not a single maravedi from the gold and silver brought from the Indies ever reached these shores.
If not, we'll hang them too. ' 'Nine, not counting the galley-slaves. ' Urdemalas made an angry, impatient gesture. ' He was a blunt old seadog, and his weather-beaten skin and grey beard bore witness to thirty years spent sailing the Mediterranean. He knew exactly how to treat such men, who set sail from the Barbary Coast at night in order to reach the Spanish coast by dawn, where they frequently sacked and plundered villages before returning home to sleep peacefully in their own beds. 'The rope for all six of them.