Para meus livros e ensaios ver o website: www. Um com mais paz e fraternidade a todos os povos! Realizing the ship is close, Aubrey hastily pursues the privateer. Marine officer Captain Howard attempts to shoot an albatross, but accidentally hits Maturin. The surgeon's mate informs Aubrey that the bullet and a piece of cloth it took with it must be removed, but the operation should be performed on solid ground. Maturin performs surgery on himself using a mirror. Giving up the pursuit of the privateer, Aubrey grants Maturin the chance to explore the island and gather specimens before they head for home.
Aubrey leads boarding parties across the wreckage, engaging in fierce hand-to-hand combat before the ship is captured. Maturin is again denied the chance to explore the Galapagos. However, they do not strictly follow history. Yet the series then enters a kind of fantasy-time in which it takes another dozen novels to progress to November Much of this period is spent at sea, with little or no connection to real-world history, and the events of the novels take up substantially more time than the few months 'available'.
A narrative apparently lasting several months ensues before a specific arrival at Christmas ; thereafter the book moves swiftly through the events of Napoleon's last defeats on land, his abdication, his exile to Elba, and it ends with his escape from Elba, which was on 26 February O'Brian wrote that he had "made use of hypothetical years, rather like those hypothetical moons used in the calculation of Easter: an a as it were or even an b".
