August 5, 2025 • 21 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hold all hands back the quarters.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I'm Africa can't buy this.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Table battery one broadside in word to please, Captain Bush.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Points us on the pocket. It's not really eyes already, is.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
That Michael Redgrave, as he has Forester's indomitable man of
the Sea ratio hornblower.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Even as an eighteen year old midshipman, I'd often heard
the word blood vest and is. Of course I'd rather
the blind hate that were said to seize on fighting
men in crisises. But well, I don't suppose I really quite.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Believed in it.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I sat at a miles young men, I think country bred,
not long at seas, so it was something of a
sot to me to find that I could have this
feeling too, that, at least on one occasion long ago.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
The story of.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
This unexpected piece of self discovery began quietly enough, just
off the coast of Spain, less than one hundred miles
from my own British port of Reporter.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Mister Ross, call up sideboy the marine Guard. All honors
to a captain who's an ally, and pass the word
to Captain Peru. You probably want to be in the
gang way. Yes, it's a long law. Make the Spanish captain,
(02:55):
welcome to speak fake ask you the caplou for the
class of way. Captain Talusa, I've only got school friends.
I know, I know, but I can only read this
stuff some of it. Try, Sir, Monsieur Capitas Kapa.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
The notes for capital is.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Duv he mercy norm up said letter home and mercy.
He says.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
He prefers to read the contents of his envelope at
once without delay.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Very good, will now chin French here read I hornblower, Yes,
sir well will. It's mostly compliments addressed by his excellency,
(03:53):
the Duke of Belk to the most.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Gallant ship Captain, Sir Edward lu Knight at the bar,
and so on.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
But Well says, the real number of it seems to
be that Spain is now neutral, no longer at war
with France. I must and that's it, Yes, must enforce
her right. It says that we have been a dancer
here twenty four hours long, and if we are Spaniards
leaving us in the lunch, doesn't he know me be
his ally a faithful friend. You go on.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Yes, six hours from Naza.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
If we are still within range of the shore batteries,
they will have orders.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
To find on us for all of it.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
He's a nine cho hornblower. You tell this fellow, no,
never mind, I mustn't let him see. He's made me angry,
mister hornblower. So tell mister chat to see him over
the side with all the honors, side boys, boas and
pipes dummer. Yes, everything we will muster. Then I'll go
below and do my swearings. Tell mister Echoes, I want
(04:57):
to be underway within the hour. Yes, sir, impudance.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
It was colored, it was almost funny. I poured out
complimentary fair wells for the best of my ability, and
while I was doing it, the two captains stiffly exchanged
bows of every phrase, hats across stomach AND's on. But
Captain Billil was as good as his word, or even better.
The cable was home short in less than an iron,
(05:29):
and as we slowly got under way, I stood in
the waist with mister Wales, our carpenter, looking across at
the distant white town which would soon trade. Two long,
sharp prows had emerged from the inner bay and were
pointing towards the Indefatigable. They were a sort of ship
I'd never seen in my whole life, at least outside
(05:51):
my history books at.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
School by mister Wales, what are they? Gary, and mister
Ornblower galleys? But like like ancient Roman.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Firms, is that it?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
That's it? And man by slaves trade.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Out of the ancient world, And yet here beside modern
craft like ours.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Oh this is something to see, all right.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
How many of the Spanish, having commission it's a whale,
couldn't help having you thorn lord a dozen I should say,
four men to the oar and fit the oars. That
means two hundred galley slaves for the ship. Oh no,
I love salute mercy. We're getting it.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
They're applying to the port of Cadiz.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Said the ironic we've cutted his salute form blur. I
will wager the next time we hear as guns from shore,
they'll be firing the real thing.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Lieutenant Ross was quite right in their prophecy. The tide
of war was turning against England. Nation after nation was
retiring from the contest against the tyrant Bonaparte, and in
the weeks that followed it looked as if we would
soon stand almost alone against the world.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
I do not like to look at mister Chad, don't
like it one little bit. Current is quite strong, sir,
and what paint prevailing winds that are a blow in
the same direction an our green cliffs found it all.
I give my arm for two hours of a southerly wind.
Just now, that's all we need to walk us up
to the mole. Well, what did it did, sir? Our
(07:58):
head look at us has reported that was approaching far
off on the port beam that anobras asks her in suck, sir,
fourth be maybe give me that dask, mister Chad. Yes,
I I think I can barely detect think the glass,
mister Chad, horizon's extremely hazy. But tell me if I've
seen her right, unless I'm very much mistaken. It's our
(08:22):
friends from Cadiz and Cadiz, Sir, I don't quite follow
the galleys man, the Spanish galleys. Look carevley, Now can't
you make out the rise and fall of those damnable hangs? Yes, sir,
by heaven, that's exactly what they are, the galleys, and sir,
they're heading straight for us. So I'm a blind man.
Quick now, I'll want you on the quarter deck, mister Chad,
well armed the men read as a long quotes, come
(08:44):
our call, has the quarter of the meat with clove.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Apparently the galley's intention was to fall upon the merchant
ships lying farthest behind in the convoy. Three game ships
lay within half a mile of us, and might be
covered by our gunfire, but the others could expect no
such protection. A pair of galleys sped towards these, looking
like ghosts, sinister ghosts, young dead cruelties and injustices.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
All boats of several miss either mister Servis will come
out of the cutter, mister Mason, the longboats. I want
six part of carr and aide lord into both boats.
I'm crafting eyes of course, yes, sir, they're already equipped.
Mister honglad you were to check all personal arms, but
mate for each hand as pistol and cutless as he
(09:36):
goes over time, I thought perhaps the jolly boat was
going tooser. That's my special charge. You know that you're
a jolly boat attack one of those war galleys, or
more a twill footing that show with a crew of six,
don't Maybe lah, we could just pull to one of
the grain convoys seven and reinforce her crew against attack. Well, yes,
(09:57):
possibly a captain the looser. What do you think of
the young man's proposal? He says, he and his crew
might be required by one of the convoys Jackson, So
bring on other men, be quick now, all right, all right,
mister hogblower, deal about it. Then make for any one
of our ships that they need her, and put your
men aboard her. But I don't waste any more time
with talk of jolly boats. An extra segas, Jason and
(10:21):
all six of us his reasomies for aga they why
for the debiting here good God cysts and catasas Ea,
and swing out the jolliver. You're aching to protect him
demonships here sel wired, well.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
We we we just might want to excellent if if
the chance came, Are you willing?
Speaker 4 (10:39):
And the others to willing?
Speaker 1 (10:40):
I longed, weather cracked and missho So is all six
of it? So? Well you've done that.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
It's a good course. Then we'll well, we'll see.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
And it was quite true, as Jackson had said, every
man of the six in my crew was glaring in
hostility at the two war galleys as we pulled away
from the indefatigable. And as for myself. I had never
(11:36):
in my life felt the sudden, violent personal hate that
shook me in aw along boat in the cutter, both
much larger than our little craft, had a good start
on us, and made fast headway. We lagged behind them.
I found myself clutching the tiller and leaning forward in
my eagerness to be equipped somehow with this weird enemy.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
Just look at them galleys or blades fly. The way
they come sweeping down is something risaid. There'd already be
time now to a boord a ginship if you want
me to.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
I think all right, I'm gonna pull the tiller over.
We'll follow the cutter for better or for worse.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Sir, Well handah, I can see mister Serves in the
clutter giving orders. Sir.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
She's pointing her six pounds of the galleys.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
She's got a.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Fire, I wondered, much so great arrange for that six
pounds of pop gun and for bread all the same.
I'm glad to see she's ready, is.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
He, sir?
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Look there? What is it? There's the other galley.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Biga's life diving right in between them, two merchant ships.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
And our cutters in her very bar fall man fall.
We've gotta go out there and help pull their lives.
I tell you pro we're gaining on the cut of
his wrong dive. She's fired the fire, said to the
galleys far those are no good. It's just splinters. See,
we don't look good for the cutters. Those ads are quickening,
and the galley's galley coming down to Ramos. It's like
(13:02):
the Greeks that that that that salamis or somewhere wool.
Sure it was close. We just missed our own cutters
(13:23):
head and now we're past it. Shall we turn about
and this is going to round the cutter once for
a while. The only they leave the cutter right in
two and mister Solmes were standing up in the stern.
Sheeach when she struck.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
I can't even see him, though. It was a chilling sight.
One moment before Lieutenant Solme was looking straight at the
death which cleaves towards him through the blue water, and
now no trace of him or half his men. A
few men clung to the severed cutter's stern parts. There
(14:04):
was the Spanish galleys starboard ors swept by us, just
clearing us and our own oars. She wrote them down
relentlessly and passed over their bobbing heads.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Give a forth, give way, use your capital, Jackson, use
it now we're going aboard that devilship.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Fall Jackson yelled an oath in reply, and hurled hard,
grappling hook on its long line. It caught in the
florid gilt rail of the galley's quarter just before she
swept out of our reach, and was wild and rage
and horror. Now, somehow we must have bend that cutter's crew.
Our own men had been slaughtered by this ghost out
(14:44):
of the past.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
I already loathed.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Over her brutal slavery, that the cutter's fate was the
last straw.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
I can't hold us. Do you feel that poor line
cutted my hands? Not take a turn around the street,
don't you a fall? We've got a hold on to
our jackson. She's pasted down the cleet. Oh, I swear
it's like we'd harpooned a whale. Ain't itself looked like this?
They see this, there's a standard running out on her poop.
He got a knife to get our life well, then
shot him hunter, good shot under he'd go right out
(15:15):
of sight below the rail. The man the odds are
heavy against us, but we've a good chance to climb aboard.
Are you for it? Well, only said why? Why? Good glass?
All right, pull up there, you Davis. You'll pass and
give jacks and a handle the line, pull us up
in closer to our stern.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
They were as fighting mad as I, all of us
shouting at each other, shaking with fury and excitement.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
It was then that that word I'd read came back
to me, glad in my mind like.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Blood students.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Well finely I knew what that word meant. I was
insane with it. Then four or five swarthy faces appeared
above the gans gilded star, and muskets pointed down into
the trolley.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Boat I left for.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
Had some fire, came Spanney's age. Another site right quickly,
said Carson's near conscious reload watch.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Had the stormglower so much, pushed a musket paddle through
the window and.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
Then off the cabin up there.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
You got a nice side, sir. I'm heading for that
broken cabin window in the stern.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Now bring the men off me, one at a time.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
My eyes her.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
I flung myself at the grapnel line. My legs raised
the water as the lion sagged, but my arms finally.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Carried me upwards.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
I swung up my feet, kicked.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Out what remained of the shattered window, and hurled myself through.
I came down on the cabin deck with a thud
and peered about me in the dim cabin. The spaniard
who aimed through the window lay there dead.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
I was alone, laden jumps only me. We're all in lonely.
There's a still talks about the other's coming, Jackson and
his next they'll all be a he sip Carson. We
can't wait for them now, but sure here the commotion up.
A battle of our Speed's the important thing. Jackson, Now
(17:17):
come along. Here's the Kevin ball. Find the officers first,
Jackson cuts your cutlers ready, h Isaac.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
Look there's there two big guns up for a dress
and three or four men on the postol.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
But there'll be more on the poop just above us.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Behind you. What more spaniards from the hotel. They got
their swords down to more spanishs isn't mister Jennon some
hands they're coming overside. I'm very sorry that well, violent Verdens.
(18:36):
We didn't well, we didn't follow instructions, you see, so well,
but the Admiral will be pleased all the same, mister Hornbler.
And now that we've lost poor mister Solmes in that
accident with the cutter, I rather think if you shall
need another watchkeeping officer, I have it in mind to
give you an order as acting lieutenant young man acting lift, Sir.
(19:02):
I just lost my head. I think I bought it
the galley in a kind of fit of I don't know, insanity.
Perhaps it might be well if more young officers lost
their heads in that way then, But so I mean
I had it. I wouldn't like to make make false pretenses.
And now I'm honored for it, all right. I'm almost
(19:24):
ashamed of that blind rage, And I said, I must
be honest. I am never questioned the lucky things that
happened to you, mister Hornblower. You'll learn more moderation in
good time, unfortunately, thank you, sir, Horatio Hornblowers. Darling Michael
(19:55):
Redgrave is based on the novels by cs Maas. Music
posed and conducted by Sydney Gord, produced by Harry Allan
gow
Hold all hands back the quarters.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I'm Africa can't buy this.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Table battery one broadside in word to please, Captain Bush.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Points us on the pocket. It's not really eyes already, is.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
That Michael Redgrave, as he has Forester's indomitable man of
the Sea ratio hornblower.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Even as an eighteen year old midshipman, I'd often heard
the word blood vest and is. Of course I'd rather
the blind hate that were said to seize on fighting
men in crisises. But well, I don't suppose I really quite.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Believed in it.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I sat at a miles young men, I think country bred,
not long at seas, so it was something of a
sot to me to find that I could have this
feeling too, that, at least on one occasion long ago.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
The story of.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
This unexpected piece of self discovery began quietly enough, just
off the coast of Spain, less than one hundred miles
from my own British port of Reporter.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Mister Ross, call up sideboy the marine Guard. All honors
to a captain who's an ally, and pass the word
to Captain Peru. You probably want to be in the
gang way. Yes, it's a long law. Make the Spanish captain,
(02:55):
welcome to speak fake ask you the caplou for the
class of way. Captain Talusa, I've only got school friends.
I know, I know, but I can only read this
stuff some of it. Try, Sir, Monsieur Capitas Kapa.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
The notes for capital is.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Duv he mercy norm up said letter home and mercy.
He says.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
He prefers to read the contents of his envelope at
once without delay.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Very good, will now chin French here read I hornblower, Yes,
sir well will. It's mostly compliments addressed by his excellency,
(03:53):
the Duke of Belk to the most.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Gallant ship Captain, Sir Edward lu Knight at the bar,
and so on.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
But Well says, the real number of it seems to
be that Spain is now neutral, no longer at war
with France. I must and that's it, Yes, must enforce
her right. It says that we have been a dancer
here twenty four hours long, and if we are Spaniards
leaving us in the lunch, doesn't he know me be
his ally a faithful friend. You go on.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Yes, six hours from Naza.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
If we are still within range of the shore batteries,
they will have orders.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
To find on us for all of it.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
He's a nine cho hornblower. You tell this fellow, no,
never mind, I mustn't let him see. He's made me angry,
mister hornblower. So tell mister chat to see him over
the side with all the honors, side boys, boas and
pipes dummer. Yes, everything we will muster. Then I'll go
below and do my swearings. Tell mister Echoes, I want
(04:57):
to be underway within the hour. Yes, sir, impudance.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
It was colored, it was almost funny. I poured out
complimentary fair wells for the best of my ability, and
while I was doing it, the two captains stiffly exchanged
bows of every phrase, hats across stomach AND's on. But
Captain Billil was as good as his word, or even better.
The cable was home short in less than an iron,
(05:29):
and as we slowly got under way, I stood in
the waist with mister Wales, our carpenter, looking across at
the distant white town which would soon trade. Two long,
sharp prows had emerged from the inner bay and were
pointing towards the Indefatigable. They were a sort of ship
I'd never seen in my whole life, at least outside
(05:51):
my history books at.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
School by mister Wales, what are they? Gary, and mister
Ornblower galleys? But like like ancient Roman.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Firms, is that it?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
That's it? And man by slaves trade.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Out of the ancient world, And yet here beside modern
craft like ours.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Oh this is something to see, all right.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
How many of the Spanish, having commission it's a whale,
couldn't help having you thorn lord a dozen I should say,
four men to the oar and fit the oars. That
means two hundred galley slaves for the ship. Oh no,
I love salute mercy. We're getting it.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
They're applying to the port of Cadiz.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Said the ironic we've cutted his salute form blur. I
will wager the next time we hear as guns from shore,
they'll be firing the real thing.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Lieutenant Ross was quite right in their prophecy. The tide
of war was turning against England. Nation after nation was
retiring from the contest against the tyrant Bonaparte, and in
the weeks that followed it looked as if we would
soon stand almost alone against the world.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
I do not like to look at mister Chad, don't
like it one little bit. Current is quite strong, sir,
and what paint prevailing winds that are a blow in
the same direction an our green cliffs found it all.
I give my arm for two hours of a southerly wind.
Just now, that's all we need to walk us up
to the mole. Well, what did it did, sir? Our
(07:58):
head look at us has reported that was approaching far
off on the port beam that anobras asks her in suck, sir,
fourth be maybe give me that dask, mister Chad. Yes,
I I think I can barely detect think the glass,
mister Chad, horizon's extremely hazy. But tell me if I've
seen her right, unless I'm very much mistaken. It's our
(08:22):
friends from Cadiz and Cadiz, Sir, I don't quite follow
the galleys man, the Spanish galleys. Look carevley, Now can't
you make out the rise and fall of those damnable hangs? Yes, sir,
by heaven, that's exactly what they are, the galleys, and sir,
they're heading straight for us. So I'm a blind man.
Quick now, I'll want you on the quarter deck, mister Chad,
well armed the men read as a long quotes, come
(08:44):
our call, has the quarter of the meat with clove.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Apparently the galley's intention was to fall upon the merchant
ships lying farthest behind in the convoy. Three game ships
lay within half a mile of us, and might be
covered by our gunfire, but the others could expect no
such protection. A pair of galleys sped towards these, looking
like ghosts, sinister ghosts, young dead cruelties and injustices.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
All boats of several miss either mister Servis will come
out of the cutter, mister Mason, the longboats. I want
six part of carr and aide lord into both boats.
I'm crafting eyes of course, yes, sir, they're already equipped.
Mister honglad you were to check all personal arms, but
mate for each hand as pistol and cutless as he
(09:36):
goes over time, I thought perhaps the jolly boat was
going tooser. That's my special charge. You know that you're
a jolly boat attack one of those war galleys, or
more a twill footing that show with a crew of six,
don't Maybe lah, we could just pull to one of
the grain convoys seven and reinforce her crew against attack. Well, yes,
(09:57):
possibly a captain the looser. What do you think of
the young man's proposal? He says, he and his crew
might be required by one of the convoys Jackson, So
bring on other men, be quick now, all right, all right,
mister hogblower, deal about it. Then make for any one
of our ships that they need her, and put your
men aboard her. But I don't waste any more time
with talk of jolly boats. An extra segas, Jason and
(10:21):
all six of us his reasomies for aga they why
for the debiting here good God cysts and catasas Ea,
and swing out the jolliver. You're aching to protect him
demonships here sel wired, well.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
We we we just might want to excellent if if
the chance came, Are you willing?
Speaker 4 (10:39):
And the others to willing?
Speaker 1 (10:40):
I longed, weather cracked and missho So is all six
of it? So? Well you've done that.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
It's a good course. Then we'll well, we'll see.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
And it was quite true, as Jackson had said, every
man of the six in my crew was glaring in
hostility at the two war galleys as we pulled away
from the indefatigable. And as for myself. I had never
(11:36):
in my life felt the sudden, violent personal hate that
shook me in aw along boat in the cutter, both
much larger than our little craft, had a good start
on us, and made fast headway. We lagged behind them.
I found myself clutching the tiller and leaning forward in
my eagerness to be equipped somehow with this weird enemy.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
Just look at them galleys or blades fly. The way
they come sweeping down is something risaid. There'd already be
time now to a boord a ginship if you want
me to.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
I think all right, I'm gonna pull the tiller over.
We'll follow the cutter for better or for worse.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Sir, Well handah, I can see mister Serves in the
clutter giving orders. Sir.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
She's pointing her six pounds of the galleys.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
She's got a.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Fire, I wondered, much so great arrange for that six
pounds of pop gun and for bread all the same.
I'm glad to see she's ready, is.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
He, sir?
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Look there? What is it? There's the other galley.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Biga's life diving right in between them, two merchant ships.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
And our cutters in her very bar fall man fall.
We've gotta go out there and help pull their lives.
I tell you pro we're gaining on the cut of
his wrong dive. She's fired the fire, said to the
galleys far those are no good. It's just splinters. See,
we don't look good for the cutters. Those ads are quickening,
and the galley's galley coming down to Ramos. It's like
(13:02):
the Greeks that that that that salamis or somewhere wool.
Sure it was close. We just missed our own cutters
(13:23):
head and now we're past it. Shall we turn about
and this is going to round the cutter once for
a while. The only they leave the cutter right in
two and mister Solmes were standing up in the stern.
Sheeach when she struck.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
I can't even see him, though. It was a chilling sight.
One moment before Lieutenant Solme was looking straight at the
death which cleaves towards him through the blue water, and
now no trace of him or half his men. A
few men clung to the severed cutter's stern parts. There
(14:04):
was the Spanish galleys starboard ors swept by us, just
clearing us and our own oars. She wrote them down
relentlessly and passed over their bobbing heads.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Give a forth, give way, use your capital, Jackson, use
it now we're going aboard that devilship.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Fall Jackson yelled an oath in reply, and hurled hard,
grappling hook on its long line. It caught in the
florid gilt rail of the galley's quarter just before she
swept out of our reach, and was wild and rage
and horror. Now, somehow we must have bend that cutter's crew.
Our own men had been slaughtered by this ghost out
(14:44):
of the past.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
I already loathed.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Over her brutal slavery, that the cutter's fate was the
last straw.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
I can't hold us. Do you feel that poor line
cutted my hands? Not take a turn around the street,
don't you a fall? We've got a hold on to
our jackson. She's pasted down the cleet. Oh, I swear
it's like we'd harpooned a whale. Ain't itself looked like this?
They see this, there's a standard running out on her poop.
He got a knife to get our life well, then
shot him hunter, good shot under he'd go right out
(15:15):
of sight below the rail. The man the odds are
heavy against us, but we've a good chance to climb aboard.
Are you for it? Well, only said why? Why? Good glass?
All right, pull up there, you Davis. You'll pass and
give jacks and a handle the line, pull us up
in closer to our stern.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
They were as fighting mad as I, all of us
shouting at each other, shaking with fury and excitement.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
It was then that that word I'd read came back
to me, glad in my mind like.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Blood students.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Well finely I knew what that word meant. I was
insane with it. Then four or five swarthy faces appeared
above the gans gilded star, and muskets pointed down into
the trolley.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Boat I left for.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
Had some fire, came Spanney's age. Another site right quickly,
said Carson's near conscious reload watch.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Had the stormglower so much, pushed a musket paddle through
the window and.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
Then off the cabin up there.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
You got a nice side, sir. I'm heading for that
broken cabin window in the stern.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Now bring the men off me, one at a time.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
My eyes her.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
I flung myself at the grapnel line. My legs raised
the water as the lion sagged, but my arms finally.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Carried me upwards.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
I swung up my feet, kicked.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Out what remained of the shattered window, and hurled myself through.
I came down on the cabin deck with a thud
and peered about me in the dim cabin. The spaniard
who aimed through the window lay there dead.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
I was alone, laden jumps only me. We're all in lonely.
There's a still talks about the other's coming, Jackson and
his next they'll all be a he sip Carson. We
can't wait for them now, but sure here the commotion up.
A battle of our Speed's the important thing. Jackson, Now
(17:17):
come along. Here's the Kevin ball. Find the officers first,
Jackson cuts your cutlers ready, h Isaac.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
Look there's there two big guns up for a dress
and three or four men on the postol.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
But there'll be more on the poop just above us.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Behind you. What more spaniards from the hotel. They got
their swords down to more spanishs isn't mister Jennon some
hands they're coming overside. I'm very sorry that well, violent Verdens.
(18:36):
We didn't well, we didn't follow instructions, you see, so well,
but the Admiral will be pleased all the same, mister Hornbler.
And now that we've lost poor mister Solmes in that
accident with the cutter, I rather think if you shall
need another watchkeeping officer, I have it in mind to
give you an order as acting lieutenant young man acting lift, Sir.
(19:02):
I just lost my head. I think I bought it
the galley in a kind of fit of I don't know, insanity.
Perhaps it might be well if more young officers lost
their heads in that way then, But so I mean
I had it. I wouldn't like to make make false pretenses.
And now I'm honored for it, all right. I'm almost
(19:24):
ashamed of that blind rage, And I said, I must
be honest. I am never questioned the lucky things that
happened to you, mister Hornblower. You'll learn more moderation in
good time, unfortunately, thank you, sir, Horatio Hornblowers. Darling Michael
(19:55):
Redgrave is based on the novels by cs Maas. Music
posed and conducted by Sydney Gord, produced by Harry Allan
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