Alors

Have got Captain Le Vin here in the Captain's mess and shortly we shall go for a short stroll around the poopdeck here on HMS Repulse. He is tired and needs a break, and I am encouraging him to splice the mainbrace a little when he sails out of port today at Capetown and off to calmer waters than these. In his own flotilla he has too many French spies for Napoleon - this is his problem.