nor of Abraham; nor, having escaped the good sisters at Holy Cross, had she been told the story of Ruth, the Moabitess, who renounced her very God for the sake of a stranger woman from a strange land. Jees Uck had learned only one way of renouncing, and that was with a club as the dynamic factor, in much the same manner as a dog is made to renounce a stolen marrow-bone. Yet, when the time came, she proved herself capable of rising to the height of the fair-faced royal races and of renouncing in right regal fashion.
So this is the story of Jees Uck (итак, это история о Джиз Ак), which is also the story of Neil Bonner, and Kitty Bonner, and a couple of Neil Bonner's progeny (которая является также историей о Ниле Боннере и Китти Боннер, и паре отпрысков Нила Боннера). Jees Uck was of a swart-skinned breed (Джиз Ак была смуглокожего племени; breed — племя, порода, род), it is true, but she was not an Indian (это верно, но она не была индианкой); nor was she an Eskimo; nor even an Innuit (не была она и эскимоской, ни даже инуиткой). Going backward into mouth tradition (возвращаясь = если вернуться к устным преданиям), there appears the figure of one Skolkz, a Toyaat Indian of the Yukon (возникает фигура некого Сколькца, индейца-тояата с Юкона), who journeyed down in his youth to the Great Delta where dwell the Innuits (который путешествовал /еще/ в своей юности к Великой Дельте, где живут инуиты; down — означает движение от центра к периферии), and where he foregathered with a woman remembered as Olillie (и где он встретился с женщиной, которую помнят как Олилли; forgather — встречаться, собираться). Now the woman Olillie had been bred from an Eskimo mother by an Innuit man (так вот, женщина Олилли была рождена эскимоской матерью от инуитского мужчины; to breed — вынашивать /детенышей/, высиживать /птенцов/; порождать). And from Skolkz and Olillie came Halie (а от Сколькца и Олилли появилась Хэйли), who was one-half Toyaat Indian, one-quarter Innuit, and one-quarter Eskimo (которая была наполовину индианка-тояатка, на четверть инуитка и на четверть эскимоска). And Halie was the grandmother of Jees Uck (а Хэйли была бабушкой Джиз Ак).
So this is the story of Jees Uck, which is also the story of Neil Bonner, and Kitty Bonner, and a couple of Neil Bonner's progeny. Jees Uck was of a swart-skinned breed, it is true, but she was not an Indian; nor was she an Eskimo; nor even an Innuit. Going backward into mouth tradition, there appears the figure of one Skolkz, a Toyaat Indian of the Yukon, who journeyed down in his youth to the Great Delta where dwell the Innuits, and where he foregathered with a woman remembered as Olillie. Now the woman Olillie had been bred from an Eskimo mother by an Innuit man. And from Skolkz and Olillie came Halie, who was one-half Toyaat Indian, one-quarter Innuit, and one-quarter Eskimo. And Halie was the grandmother of Jees Uck.
Now Halie, in whom three stocks had been bastardized (и вот Хэйли, в которой были испорчены = смешались три рода; to bastardize — объявлять незаконнорожденным; ухудшать, портить), who cherished no prejudice against further admixture (которая не лелеяла никаких предрассудков против дальнейшей примеси), mated with a Russian fur trader called Shpack, also known in his time as the Big Fat (сочеталась браком с русским торговцем мехами по имени Шпак, известном также в свое время, как Большой Жирняк; to mate — сочетать/ся/ браком; спаривать/ся/, случать). Shpack is herein classed Russian for lack of a more adequate term (Шпак здесь классифицируется как русский из-за недостатка более подходящего определения/термина); for Shpack's father, a Slavonic convict from the Lower Provinces (ибо отец Шпака, славянин-заключенный из Южных Провинций /Канады/; the Provinces — Канада; вся страна за исключением столицы; lower — нижний; расположенный южнее), had escaped from the quicksilver mines into Northern Siberia (сбежал с ртутных рудников в Северную Сибирь), where he knew Zimba (где он познакомился с Зимбой), who was a woman of the Deer People and who became the mother of Shpack (которая была женщиной Оленьего Народа, и которая стала матерью Шпака), who became the grandfather of Jees Uck (который стал дедушкой Джиз Ак).
Now Halie, in whom three stocks had been bastardized, who cherished no prejudice against further admixture, mated with a Russian fur trader called Shpack, also known in his time as the Big Fat. Shpack is herein classed Russian for lack of a more adequate term; for Shpack's father, a Slavonic convict from the Lower Provinces, had escaped from the quicksilver mines into Northern Siberia, where he knew Zimba, who was a woman of the Deer People and who became the mother of Shpack, who became the grandfather of Jees Uck.
Now had not Shpack been captured in his boyhood by the Sea People (и вот если бы Шпак в отрочестве не был взят в плен Морским Народом), who fringe the rim of the Arctic Sea with their misery (который окаймляет узкую полоску земли = который живет на узкой полоске земли на краю Арктического моря своей бедностью; to fringe — отделывать бахромой; обрамлять, окаймлять; rim — край; край горизонта, узкая полоска земли; водная поверхность), he would not have become the grandfather of Jees Uck (он не стал бы дедушкой Джиз Ак) and there would be no story at all (и не было бы вообще никакой истории). But he WAS captured by the Sea People (но он БЫЛ взят в плен Морским Народом), from whom he escaped to Kamchatka (от которого он убежал на Камчатку), and thence, on a Norwegian whale-ship, to the Baltic (а оттуда на норвежском китобойном судне в Балтику). Not long after that he turned up in St. Petersburg (вскоре после этого он объявился в Санкт-Петербурге; to turn up — находиться, обнаруживаться; оказаться, выясниться; внезапно появляться), and the years were not many till he went drifting east over the same weary road (и прошло немного лет, пока его не понесло на восток по той же изнуряющей дороге; to drift — сноситься, смещаться, сдвигаться по ветру, по течению, дрейфовать) his father had measured with blood and groans a half-century before (/которую/ измерил кровью и стонами его отец полвека тому назад). But Shpack was a free man, in the employ of the great Russian Fur Company (но Шпак был свободным человеком на службе у крупной Русской Пушной Компании; great — большой, огромный; великий). And in that employ he fared farther and farther east (и на этой службе он путешествовал /все/ дальше и дальше на восток), until he crossed Bering Sea into Russian America (пока он не пересек Берингово море /и не попал/ в Русскую Америку); and at Pastolik, which is hard by the Great Delta of the Yukon, became the husband of Halie (и в Пастолике, который находится рядом с Великой Дельтой Юкона, стал мужем Хэйли; hard by — близко, рядом), who was the grandmother of Jees Uck (которая была бабушкой Джиз Ак). Out of this union came the woman-child, Tukesan (из этого союза появился ребенок женского пола — Тукесан).
Now had not Shpack been captured in his boyhood by the Sea People, who fringe the rim of the Arctic Sea with their misery, he would not have become the grandfather of Jees Uck and there would be no story at all. But he WAS captured by the Sea People, from whom he escaped to Kamchatka, and thence, on a Norwegian whale-ship, to the Baltic. Not long after that he turned up in St. Petersburg, and the years were not many till he went drifting east over the same weary road his father had measured with blood and groans a half-century before. But Shpack was a free man, in the employ of the great Russian Fur Company. And in that employ he fared farther and farther east, until he crossed Bering Sea into Russian America; and at Pastolik, which is hard by the Great Delta of the Yukon, became the husband of Halie, who was the grandmother of Jees Uck. Out of this union came the woman-child, Tukesan.
Shpack, under the orders of the Company (Шпак по распоряжению Компании; orders — приказ; приказание, распоряжение; инструкция, предписание; команда), made a canoe
