【美国故事】贝尼托·塞莱诺 第二部分 (2/6)

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Captain Delano
Don Benito
Buenos Airs
LimaLeft alone, Captain Delano again observed with fresh surprise the general disorder aboard the ship. Some of the men were fighting. There were no deck officers to discipline or control the violent ones. And everyone seemed to do as he pleased.
Captain Delano could not fully understand how this could have happened. What could explain such a break down of order and responsibility? He asked Don Benito to give him the full story of his ship's misfortunes. Don Benito did not answer. He just kept looking at his American visitor as if he heard nothing.
This angered Captain Delano, who suddenly turned away and walked forward to one of the Spanish seamen for his answer. But he had hardly gone five steps when Don Benito called him back. "It is now 190 days," Don Benito began, "that the ship sailed from Buenos Airs for Lima with a general cargo. Pedigree, tea, and the like, and a number of
negros, now not more than 150 as you see, but then numbering over 300 souls. The ship was officered and well-manned, with several cabin passengers. Some 50 Spaniards in all.