And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
6 sails up, I wonder how big the crew is?
ReplyDeleteThose square sails can't be set from the deck. Seamen have to climb up that mast and untie the sail or set the reef points.
DeleteBTW Just finished "Desolation Island" by O'Brian.
Beautiful, simply beautiful!
ReplyDeleteWow. Snow on the far mountains.
ReplyDeleteNew Zealand?
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