"It was another beautiful day, breezes full of the scents of green growth, brilliant sunlight, warbling birds." (p. 42)
Three senses in one sentence. Next the paragraph lists:
wooded hills;
views across the island;
glittering blue water between the islands;
a castle on a headland of the neighboring island.
Charlie's father, a Stuart of Scottish descent, had named him after Bonnie Prince Charlie whose rebel followers had been defeated by the army of the Hanoverian King George II. (See image.)
Unfortunately, a local song about a hero Prince inspires the Hoka to identify Charlie both with Prince Charlie and with the Prince of the song. Much will follow from this misidentification.
2 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
And I remember reading a long time ago that George II was one of the few who kept his head and didn't panic when it SEEMED for a while in London that the Jacobites would be victorious during the '45. Whatever King George's other faults might have been, cowardice was not one of them.
Sean
Kaor, Sean!
I’ve also read that about George II. To comment on your comment about the previous post, the lives of the Medievals were largely hard, impoverished, and unhygienic by our standards, but they did make advances in agriculture, metallurgy, military engineering, architecture, the use of water and then wind power to supplement human and animal muscle, and so forth.
Best Regards,
Nicholas
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