distance and the ship was plainly discernible. Was it reality, after all? He closed his eyes for a long while and thought, and then it came to him. He had been making north by east, away from the Dease Divide and into the Coppermine Valley. This wide and sluggish river was the Coppermine. That shining sea was the Arctic Ocean. That ship was a whaler, strayed east, far east, from the mouth of the Mackenzie, and it was lying at anchor in Coronation Gulf. He remembered the Hudson Bay Company chart he had seen long ago, and it was all clear and reasonable to him.
He sat up and turned his attention to immediate affairs (он сел и обратил свое внимание на неотложные дела;
He sat up and turned his attention to immediate affairs. He had worn through the blanket-wrappings, and his feet were shapeless lumps of raw meat. His last blanket was gone. Rifle and knife were both missing. He had lost his hat somewhere, with the bunch of matches in the band, but the matches against his chest were safe and dry inside the tobacco pouch and oil paper. He looked at his watch. It marked eleven o'clock and was still running. Evidently he had kept it wound.
He was calm and collected (он был спокоен и собран). Though extremely weak (хотя /и был/ чрезвычайно слаб), he had no sensation of pain (у него не было ощущения боли). He was not hungry (он не был голоден). The thought of food was not even pleasant to him (мысль о еде не была даже приятна ему), and whatever he did was done by his reason alone (и все, что он ни делал, делалось лишь разумом = по велению разума). He ripped off his pants' legs to the knees and bound them about his feet (он оборвал штаны с ног до колен и перевязал ими ступни;
He was calm and collected. Though extremely weak, he had no sensation of pain. He was not hungry. The thought of food was not even pleasant to him, and whatever he did was done by his reason alone. He ripped off his pants' legs to the knees and bound them about his feet. Somehow he had succeeded in retaining the tin bucket. He would have some hot water before he began what he foresaw was to be a terrible journey to the ship.
His movements were slow (его движения были медленными). He shook as with a palsy (он трясся, как в параличе). When he started to collect dry moss (когда он начал собирать сухой мох), he found he could not rise to his feet (он обнаружил, что не может подняться на ноги). He tried again and again (он пытался снова и снова), then contented himself with crawling about on hands and knees (затем удовольствовался тем, что пополз на четвереньках). Once he crawled near to the sick wolf (разок он прополз возле больного волка). The animal dragged itself reluctantly out of his way (животное неохотно отодвинулось с дороги;
His movements were slow. He shook as with a palsy. When he started to collect dry moss, he found he could not rise to his feet. He tried again and again, then contented himself with crawling about on hands and knees. Once he crawled near to the sick wolf. The animal dragged itself reluctantly out of his way, licking its chops with a tongue which seemed hardly to have the strength to curl. The man noticed that the tongue was not the customary healthy red. It was a yellowish brown and seemed coated with a rough and half-dry mucus.
After he had drunk a quart of hot water (после того как он выпил кварту кипятка) the man found he was able to stand (мужчина понял, что он может стоять), and even to walk as well as a dying man might be supposed to walk (и даже идти, как должен был бы идти умирающий человек;
After he had drunk a quart of hot water the man found he was able to stand, and even to walk as well as a dying man might be supposed to walk. Every minute or so he was compelled to rest. His steps were feeble and uncertain, just as the wolf's that trailed him were feeble and uncertain; and that night, when the shining sea was blotted out by blackness, he knew he was nearer to it by no more than four miles.
Throughout the night he heard the cough of the sick wolf (на протяжении всей ночи он слышал кашель больного волка), and now and then the squawking of the caribou calves (и время от времени крики оленят;
