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Under Wellington’s Command

CHAPTER 6: Afloat
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I suppose we are about halfway between the two now, so we can count it as three knots and a half." "That would make," Ryan said, after making the calculation, "eighty-four miles in twenty-four hours." "Bravo, Dicky! I doubted whether your mental powers were equal to so difficult a calculation.

Well, Jules said that it was about four hundred miles to Corunna, and about a hundred and fifty to Santander, beyond which he thought we could land safely at any village." "Oh, let us stick to the boat as long as we can!" Ryan exclaimed.
"Certainly.

I have no more desire to be tramping among those mountains and taking our chance with the peasants than you have, and if the wind keeps as it is now we should be at Corunna in something like five days.

But that would be almost too much to hope for.

So that it does but keep in its present direction till we are past Santander, I shall be very well satisfied." The mountains of Navarre and Biscay were within sight from the time they had left the river, and it did not need the compass to show them which way they should steer.


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