Posted by Peter Ceresole on September 12, 2013 at 12:34:13 user PeterC.
In Reply to: Re: Water and Empire: Examination Paper posted by Peter Hyland on September 12, 2013 at 09:21:14:
before PP starts, Captain Flint has negotiated an exploratory licence with the mineral owner
From Pernambuco? Wasn't that where, on a hillside, he and Timothy decided that wild geese indeed lay no eggs. In those days, I suspect that Brazil was an awful lot further away than it is now. I guess that Timothy came back in part to prospect, but in main to negotiate with the site owners. And he can't have had much time before the action started.