ornamental hair-tufts and bead-work (к тому же те, что из = с декоративными пучками волос и вышивкой бисером; withal — к тому же, вдобавок; в то же время). These she sold to the miners (эти она продавала рудокопам), who were drifting faster into the land each year (которые с каждым годом чаще заходили в этот район; to drift in — заходить; drift — перемещение; дрейф). And not only did she win food that was good and plentiful (и она не только зарабатывала еду, которая была доброкачественной и обильной = доброкачественную и обильную еду; to win — получать; зарабатывать; good food — доброкачественная, свежая пища; plenty — обилие; множество), but she laid money by (но /она/ и откладывала деньги), and one day took passage on the Yukon Belle down the river (и однажды купила билет на проезд на «Юконской Красавице» вниз по течению реки; take one's passage — взять билет на пароход).
The snow went off the ground and the ice broke out of the Yukon. The sun journeyed north, and journeyed south again; and, the money from the dogs being spent, Jees Uck went back to her own people. Oche Ish, a shrewd hunter, proposed to kill the meat for her and her babe, and catch the salmon, if she would marry him. And Imego and Hah Yo and Wy Nooch, husky young hunters all, made similar proposals. But she elected to live alone and seek her own meat and fish. She sewed moccasins and parkas and mittens — warm, serviceable things, and pleasing to the eye, withal, what of the ornamental hair-tufts and bead-work. These she sold to the miners, who were drifting faster into the land each year. And not only did she win food that was good and plentiful, but she laid money by, and one day took passage on the Yukon Belle down the river.
At St. Michael's she washed dishes in the kitchen of the post (на Святом Михаиле она мыла посуду на кухне /торгового/ поста). The servants of the Company wondered at the remarkable woman with the remarkable child (служащие Компании дивились поразительной женщине и замечательному ребенку; remarkable — замечательный, выдающийся, поразительный), though they asked no questions and she vouchsafed nothing (хотя они не задавали вопросов, а она не соизволила ничего /сказать/; to vouchsafe — удостаивать; соизволить). But just before Bering Sea closed in for the year (но как раз перед тем, как Берингово море было закрыто на год), she bought a passage south on a strayed sealing schooner (она купила билет на юг на отставшую зверобойную шхуну; to stray — заблудиться; отбиться; seal — тюлень; sealing — зверобойный промысел). That winter she cooked for Captain Markheim's household at Unalaska (в ту зиму она готовила для семьи капитана Маркхейма в Уналашке[14]), and in the spring continued south to Sitka on a whisky sloop (а весной продолжила /путь/ на юг в Ситку[15] на шлюпе с виски; sloop — шлюп, баркас). Later on appeared at Metlakahtla (позднее она появилась в Метлакахтле), which is near to St. Mary's on the end of the Pan-Handle[16] (что рядом со Святой Марией на оконечности узкого выступа /полуострова/; panhandle — ручка кастрюли; узкий выступ территории между двумя другими территориями), where she worked in the cannery through the salmon season (где она работала на консервном заводе на протяжении всего лососевого сезона). When autumn came and the Siwash fishermen prepared to return to Puget Sound (когда наступила осень, и сивашские рыбаки стали готовиться к возвращению на Пьюджет Саунд[17]), she embarked with a couple of families in a big cedar canoe (она села с парой семей в большое кедровое каноэ); and with them she threaded the hazardous chaos of the Alaskan and Canadian coasts (и с ними она пробралась через опасный хаос побережий Аляски и Канады), till the Straits of Juan de Fuca were passed (пока не был пройден пролив Хуан-де-Фука[18]) and she led her boy by the hand up the hard pave of Seattle (и она не повела своего мальчика за руку вверх по твердой мостовой Сиэтла).
At St. Michael's she washed dishes in the kitchen of the post. The servants of the Company wondered at the remarkable woman with the remarkable child, though they asked no questions and she vouchsafed nothing. But just before Bering Sea closed in for the year, she bought a passage south on a strayed sealing schooner. That winter she cooked for Captain Markheim's household at Unalaska, and in the spring continued south to Sitka on a whisky sloop. Later on appeared at Metlakahtla, which is near to St. Mary's on the end of the Pan-Handle, where she worked in the cannery through the salmon season. When autumn came and the Siwash fishermen prepared to return to Puget Sound, she embarked with a couple of families in a big cedar canoe; and with them she threaded the hazardous chaos of the Alaskan and Canadian coasts, till the Straits of Juan de Fuca were passed and she led her boy by the hand up the hard pave of Seattle.
There she met Sandy MacPherson (там она встретила Сэнди МакФерсона), on a windy corner, very much surprised (на продуваемом ветром углу, очень удивленного) and, when he had heard her story (а когда он услыхал ее историю), very wroth (очень разгневанный) — not so wroth as he might have been (не такой разгневанный, каким он мог бы быть), had he known of Kitty Sharon (если бы узнал о Китти Шэрон); but of her Jees Uck breathed not a word (но о ней Джиз Ак не прошептала ни слова; to breathe — негромко говорить, шептать, нашептывать, «ворковать»; изрыгать /проклятия и т.д./), for she had never believed (ибо она никогда не верила /этому/). Sandy, who read commonplace and sordid desertion into the circumstance (Сэнди, который разгадал банальное и подлое дезертирство в данных обстоятельствах; to read — понимать, разгадывать), strove to dissuade her from her trip to San Francisco (постарался отговорить ее от поездки в Сан-Франциско; to strive — стараться; бороться, прилагать усилия), where Neil Bonner was supposed to live when he was at home (где, предполагалось, проживает Нил Боннер, когда он дома). And, having striven, he made her comfortable, bought her tickets and saw her off (а постаравшись = а после бесплодных стараний он успокоил ее, купил ей билеты и проводил ее; to see off — провожать), the while smiling in her face and muttering 'dam-shame' into his beard (одновременно улыбаясь ей в лицо и бормоча себе в бороду «позор, черт побери»; the while — покуда, в то время как; damn — проклятие; ругательство; используется в некоторых сочетаниях в качестве усилительной частицы).
There she met Sandy MacPherson, on a windy corner, very much surprised and, when he had heard her story, very wroth — not so wroth as he might have been, had he known of Kitty Sharon; but of her Jees Uck breathed not a word, for she had never believed. Sandy, who read commonplace and sordid desertion into the circumstance, strove to dissuade her from her trip to San Francisco, where Neil Bonner was supposed to live when he was at home. And, having striven, he made her comfortable, bought her tickets and saw her off, the while smiling in her face and muttering 'dam-shame' into his beard.
With roar and rumble (с ревом и грохотом), through daylight and dark (сквозь дневной свет и мрак), swaying and lurching between the dawns (качаясь и кренясь между рассветами), soaring into the winter snows and sinking to summer valleys (воспаряя к зимним снегам и опускаясь к летним долинам), skirting depths (идя по краю бездн; to skirt — обходить кругом, идти вдоль края), leaping chasms (перепрыгивая пропасти), piercing mountains (пронизывая горы), Jees Uck and her boy were hurled south (Джиз Ак и ее мальчика несло на юг; to hurl — бросать, швырять). But she had no fear of the iron stallion (но она не боялась ни железного жеребца); nor was she stunned by this masterful civilization of Neil Bonner's people (ни была /она/ ошеломлена могущественной цивилизацией народа Нила Боннера). It seemed, rather, that she saw with greater clearness the wonder (скорее, казалось, что она увидела = осознала с большей ясностью чудо /того/) that a man of such godlike race had held her in his arms (что мужчина такой богоподобной расы держал ее в своих объятиях). The
