At least, and at last, I was off the sea
(по крайней мере и наконец-то я оставил море), nor had I returned thence empty-handed (но не возвращался оттуда с пустыми руками). There lay the schooner, clear at last from buccaneers (там /у берега/ лежала шхуна, освобожденная, наконец, от пиратов) and ready for our own men to board and get to sea again (и готовая, чтобы наши люди = команда села на нее и вышла в море снова). I had nothing nearer my fancy than to get home to the stockade and boast of my achievements (не было ничего ближе моему желанию, чем попасть домой, за частокол, и похвастаться своими достижениями). Possibly I might be blamed a bit for my truantry (возможно, меня осудят немного за бегство;jewels [`ʤu:əlz] hawser [`hɔ:zə] achievement [ə`tʃi:vmənt] recapture [ri:`kæptʃə]
By this time the whole anchorage had fallen into shadow — the last rays, I remember, falling through a glade of the wood, and shining bright as jewels, on the flowery mantle of the wreck. It began to be chill; the tide was rapidly fleeting seaward, the schooner settling more and more on her beam-ends.
I scrambled forward and looked over. It seemed shallow enough, and holding the cut hawser in both hands for a last security, I let myself drop softly overboard. The water scarcely reached my waist; the sand was firm and covered with ripple marks, and I waded ashore in great spirits, leaving the
At least, and at last, I was off the sea, nor had I returned thence empty-handed. There lay the schooner, clear at last from buccaneers and ready for our own men to board and get to sea again. I had nothing nearer my fancy than to get home to the stockade and boast of my achievements. Possibly I might be blamed a bit for my truantry, but the recapture of the
So thinking, and in famous spirits
(размышляя так и в отличном /состоянии/ духа), I began to set my face homeward for the block-house and my companions (я начал поворачиваться лицом по направлению к дому, чтобы /выйти/ к блокгаузу и моим друзьям). I remembered that the most easterly of the rivers which drain into Captain Kidd’s anchorage (я вспомнил, что самая восточная из рек, которая впадает в бухту капитана Кидда) ran from the two-peaked hill upon my left (бежит от = берет начало у двуглавого холма слева от меня); and I bent my course in that direction (и я свернул в том направлении;