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Horatio Hornblower - Quarantined For The Plague
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Since those days when I was barely past 20, I've said eyes many times on the North African city of Oran.
But that morning was the first time on the eyes of youth I saw stuck by blue tears that I could not help but stop and cape.
Our squadron had arrived in the Gulf of Oran, the evening before.
Now, as I climbed the quarter deck to report to Captain Perlu, the scene spread before me.
The water was the blueest I've ever seen, the sky also.
And where water and sky met, lay the heathen city of Oran.
Its minarets and towers, roughly beyond description.
Horn is the whole block.
You go to get a shot, sir.
The squadrons in need are supplies.
Mr. Tapping here, as you know, is its civilian.
Member of the diplomatic corps side duty with the fleet.
Yes, sir.
He's arranged with the bay of Oran to purchase cattle and grain.
You will be in charge of the long boat that takes him ashore, Mr. Horn.
Yes, sir.
Tapping.
You make every effort you understand.
I do.
Very well, Captain.
We're blockading all of Europe.
Nothing but enemies on the entire continent.
Unless we manage supplies here, we'll be forced to lift the blockade and sail clear back to England.
And as always, Gibraltar, sir.
What good, Gibraltar.
Now that Spain's joint flants against us, Gibraltar, too, is hard put for supplies.
We must have these.
Oh, I'll do my best, Captain.
But as you know, the Muslims are very tricky fellows.
You've set 1,000 gold guineas.
Don't pay over the taverns of it until the cattle and grain are already loaded in the lighters.
By then, you can...
Mr. Horn, sir.
Sir, your attention be wandering.
Oh, no.
Sorry, sir.
This is a sight of Oran, sir.
There was...
There's white buildings over there, it looks.
Looks so...
So clean.
Clean!
Oh, wait till you lay alongside the dock, Mr. Hornblower.
Clean!
Oh!
Oh!
Oh!
Oh!
Oh!
Oh!
Oh!
Oh!
Oh!
Oh!
Oh!
Oh!
Oh!
Oh!
Oh!
Oh!
Oh!
Oh!
That man over there is standing on the docky.
Is he waiting for us?
Do you think?
Big black man in the blue room.
Yes.
Yes, that's him, Dura.
Representative of his master, the ruler of the Rhine.
He's very...
Very picturesque.
A picturesque hornblower?
Yes.
Everything but this place, look.
Oh!
What's wrong, Hornblower?
He stopped in mid-flight.
Oh!
Oh!
Smell!
Oh!
The breeze shifted suddenly.
I got a whiff.
Oh!
Mr. Tappling, it smells.
Smell.
It's unclean.
Like a...
Like a pestle.
Oh!
Mr. Dura, allow me to present Mr. Hornblower of his Britannic majesty's navy.
Yes.
Yes, you have brought with you the gold.
In the boat, right below us.
Good, good.
I will take the gold and bring you the supplies.
Oh, no, thank you.
First the supplies.
Then the gold.
Oh, he's nonsense.
You do not trust the bay of a ram.
I appeal to you, Mr. Hornblower.
Hornblower.
I'm sorry, Mr. Dura, but I must be with Mr. Tappling.
Those lighters beside the dock there.
They're for supplies.
Yes, for the cattle and the grain.
For 400 fat cattle, Dura, and 1,500 finegas of barley grain.
He pees all ready.
This is not all yet here, Mr. Dura.
Once it's here, on board the lighters for transport to our supply ship, the Carolina.
Well, I agree with Mr. Tappling.
Oh!
Well, something troubles you, Dura.
Oh, forgive me, Fendi.
I am not well.
Please, heep, or perhaps it's worry about what the bay will do to you if we take the gold and depart.
Oh, never.
Never.
Please, to wait.
I will return with the supplies long before nightfall.
Please, wait.
Look at that, Hornblower.
Yes, I saw it.
Oh, big one.
Oh, rats are big in Iran.
But did you notice how it's tumbled entering that drain pipe as if it were drunk?
I ordered the men to spread an awning against the rays of the sun.
And we sat under it all of a sudden.
Dappling, our crew from the Longburton die.
I'll be on the harbor of the indefatigable stood under third sail, with the Caroline beside her.
The ocean looked cool and pleasant, but we drew small comfort from it.
Natives in long robes came and went, and one of them seemed almost as badly off as the rat.
Hey, Tappling.
Yes, look.
Isn't that Dura coming back?
Oh, let me see.
There it is.
With a string of loaded donkeys in the head of cattle and men carrying grain sacks.
Mm, scrawny cattle.
Oh, well, lucky to get even these.
All right, Mr. Dura, load them on the lighters and we'll hand over the gold.
Lively now.
The way they drive those men, look.
There's three of them painted already, Tappling.
So long as they finish the looting, Hornblower.
Look, they just lie there that they all act as if they were drunk.
You know, it's pretty curious.
It's the sun.
Ah, here's Dura now.
Capital, Mr. Dura, everything's just about on board.
Oh, Hornblower.
If you have that gold handed, I'll think.
Hey, wait a minute.
What?
Mr. Dura, Dura.
What is it?
What's the matter?
I am most ill-cooked.
Bloody ass.
Oh, that is.
He swiped on a stiff, coarse white to the white.
I...
I so heard.
I feel burning out.
Oh, the sun.
No.
No, my head.
Mine.
Oh.
Oh.
Oh.
Oh.
Oh.
Oh.
Down there, over here.
Under.
Keep those ladies back.
Right there.
Mr. Tappling.
Dura, certainly wasn't drunk.
No.
Neither were the others.
No, that first Muslim who killed her.
But no, was it the sun.
By heavens.
On that red hornblower.
That red that had difficulty in finding the three and five years.
Do you think it's...
It's the plague.
The Black Death.
I saw it in Smirna in 94.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
He has two sons.
He's handsome.
I don't know.
Come, come, come.
I told you to go.
Yes.
Excuse me.
Okay.
Oh, I'm in the middle.
Yes.
Dr.
Black.
I haven't come to hold him for five ans.
He hasn't come to get anything.
I don't get any of these atoms.
I haven't.
Today, I had him spray.
Hopefully.
Okay.
Thank you.
Another great lift for you.
Hail.
Come on, come on, my boy!
Let's close it out, Mr. Hornbauer.
Way enough, Memphis.
I, I, sir, eat.
Quite close enough.
Now, you're just judging about your request, Mr. Hornbauer.
Sir.
The cattle and grain are already in the lifers of dockside.
They can be transferred to the cattle line.
By who?
I'll not risk any more men in order.
Sir, by us.
You?
Yes, sir.
I was counting Mr. Tappling and myself, and we can sail the cattle and ourselves, sir.
Say it.
You mean remove the crew that's aboard now, and but your may not instead.
The only way to save the supplies, sir.
Well, it might be a debt.
You'll have to be on your own, because I understand that, sir.
The cattle line will keep completely clear of the squadron completely.
Have I opened this, sir?
Permission cut in, Mr. Hornbauer.
You're placed in command of the cattle line.
I'll have her crew taken out before you return with the lighters.
Carry on.
Yes, sir.
Yes, Tappling?
I can't help wondering what.
It's pounds to six pence.
We've already picked up the plague.
We're as good as dead already, Hornbauer.
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I shall never forget how hard we worked that afternoon,
and all through the night,
taking over an empty ship and loading into it,
all that vast amount of cattle and grain.
No shall I ever forget my desolation the next morning,
and the squadron lets us behind.
What's that?
Signal gun for me in the fatigable tapping.
Oh.
Saying farewell, eh?
Yes.
Two guns.
I'm getting a salute as an acting lieutenant.
I hope I can prove worthy of it now.
Not until late that afternoon will be prepared to set sail
and lead the Gulf of Oregon.
I hope I can prove worthy of it now.
I hope I can prove worthy of it now.
I hope I can prove worthy of it now.
I hope I can prove worthy of it now.
A long time before afternoon will be prepared to set sail
and lead the Gulf of Oregon.
And before we did,
one of the mourished crafts called zebex became growing out from the harbor.
Strange gibberish was called at us.
Savous gibberish was called at us.
It's all they say, göndil 1 meny Union.
Have you made it out?
something about their money I think ?
Money $7,000.
The 70,000 Ginizels!
Tell them, tell them we'll seal it up in a couple of rum functions and float it down to them.
I'm just as anxious to stay clear of them as they are of us.
Matthews?
Huh?
See to it everyone, so I'm Matthews.
Have the crew stand by the hoist sale.
We belong three weeks ahead of us.
There was little sleep aboard the caravan.
With the 20 men to handle her, we had our hands full.
Never enough problems as well.
Sir, this now is ox smells worse than all ran dust.
Have we raced it in something about them cattle, sir?
The men will have to do double duty matters.
I want every man to stand a second watch.
And it will be employed in mucking out.
Mucking out, leaving the cattle stalls, Matthews.
Have you ever been a farmer?
Reading out the stalls.
Sir, big of your pardon?
What is it, Hunter?
I don't tell me the men are complaining of their rations.
We're giving everyone a fresh meat.
We slaughtered a bullock a day.
Oh, no, sir.
Ain't that.
That fresh meat is welcome.
By the rain, hardly one of us ever tasted a steak before.
No, sir.
It's this brief.
She's leaking very bad, sir.
She's leaking very bad.
Oh, well, man, the pumps.
Pump's night and day.
Sir, what is in our Matthews?
No sign of play, sir.
And no, sir?
Praise be for that.
Well, 15 days out of all ran already.
No sign of play, yes.
We may escape it entirely.
There's something else we call the Skype, sir.
We've run out of water.
What, sir?
I said clean out.
This one was plenty.
Captain Pallue had the Cadillan well stocked before the squadron lifted us.
He forgot about them cattle, sir.
They drink water, too.
Gallons of it.
The quarantine period is three weeks, Matthews.
We've got to hang on out here for another six days.
Somehow.
I'll be done, sir.
Not without fresh water.
Sir, they started to sail around the far point.
What?
They think it's a Spanish-curse-gold lugger.
Coast Guard, eh?
Matthews, sir.
How many hands do you think that like a Cadillan?
How many, sir?
Yes, sir.
I should judge 24.
Yes, sir.
I will have the outside 30.
We have 20.
Sir, you aren't thinking that I am?
I am.
Listen.
She caddies for eight pounders.
It's along with she doesn't stand off and use them.
We may have a chance.
Hunter?
Oh, sir.
I want you to choose two men and show yourselves up here at the helm with me.
Oh, sir.
And what everybody else to stay out of sight behind the railing?
Hand our pistols and cutlaces to all hands, Matthews.
I, sir.
Mr. Tappley may also serve, sir, so see that he's armed.
I want every man ready to jump.
And if a man shows himself before I give you order, you will shoot him, Matthews, with your own hand.
I, I, sir.
Now we're showing no colors or plans legal under the laws of war.
And they'll wait until the lugger comes alongside the men.
Order.
Suppose they stand off.
Oh, let's hope they don't, Matthews.
Their job is to apprehend smugglers.
Let them take us for smugglers and we have a chance.
A good chance.
I remember even now how excited I was.
How my knees trembled and to what pains I went to conceal it.
And I remember being grateful for those cattle.
All that voyage they've created on my nerves with their mournful bellowing.
But now I welcomed it.
Who would expect a ship laden with cattle to be prepared to fight?
There's a warning shot, sir.
Yes, sir, far back.
I'm ready to hit two under.
You, man.
Name topsobraces.
Hail, Marley, under.
Order, please, sir.
Not a son.
Here she comes, sir.
They don't suspect nine, sir.
They love him.
But the cattle might speak to you.
Wait.
Wait.
Officer on board is about to hire a son.
Hey!
Here's something on it.
May we first aid.
Stand by.
We've come a long time.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Come ahead.
Come right through on the side.
You'll stay at the helm, Hunter.
Watch it.
They're close.
Yes.
Yes.
Think of them, sir.
Are you going to move, Hunter?
Why?
Well, certainly.
You forgot to loam yourself, sir.
You forgot a pistol or even a countless.
Like I was along the side.
I had no time to remedy my lack of weapons.
I'm certain that my voice cracked when I gave the command
for my crew to follow me.
I ran across the deck and with a gulp,
flanked myself down upon the Spaniards deck.
The MK porting on me.
Okay, Hunter's here.
Come to me.
Oh, look out, Hunter.
Good night, man.
I'll let you fuck him down.
I'll get his rifle.
Hey, give me that pistol.
Hold on.
Hold back.
Hold.
Hold on.
That's what this is.
Drop your arms to the deck.
Anyone hurt?
Matthews, you'll take it over as a prize.
Strike the colors and run up our own.
Aye, aye, sir.
John, cast the head.
Why have an horn blower you did it?
I've never enjoyed anything so much in all my life.
Taking up pies.
And we were fortunate, Mr. Tetley.
Why, I've never...
Humbler, I can't forget, boy.
There hasn't been a sign of the plague since we said out.
Quarantine period will soon be over.
Can't we help for Gibraltar with safety?
Yes.
And certain, now, it, Mr. Tetley.
And so it was, that six days later, on the 22nd day of our quarantine,
we entered Gibraltar Bay, with a captured Spanish lugger under our leaf.
That was a broad young fella.
Acting lieutenant Humbler, safely in with supplies for the fleet, and a prize to boot.
But if I expected praise, I got little of it.
I reported to Captain Valu.
He loved it and dismissed me.
And the only comment I received came from the chief commissary of the squadron,
when I presented to him my accounting of the supplies.
Mr. Humbler, you mean to tell me that you allowed your crew to eat fresh beef?
A bullock a day for your men, that was once an extravagance with the Humbler.
I'm surprised that you...
Yes, sir.
Horatio Honeblower, starring Michael Redgrave, is based on the narrows by C.S. Barnister.
Music composed and conducted by Sydney Torch, produced by Harry Allen Tars.
Music composed and performed by C.S. Barnister.
Music composed and performed by C.S. Barnister.
Music composed and performed by C.S. Barnister.
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