Chapter 13 Summary

Maturin visits the hospital and sees several patients. He then walks to Diana's presumed location only to discover her cousin's home is shut up. He learns the man had suffered some sort of collapse and that Diana has not been seen for some time. He sneaks into the deserted house and looks about; the scent in Diana's dressing room brings back painful memories. The next day Maturin tours the sickbay of Lively. He later lectures Aubrey on the manifest intelligence of bees; Aubrey is discommoded by the bees' possession of his cabin. Over the next weeks, Aubrey causes Lively to exercise the great guns—the previous captain being somewhat lax in this regard. In order to have the powder and shot replenished at government expense rather than his own, Aubrey causes Lively to cruise close to the French coast and the gunnery...