This brought me near to where I had encountered Ben Gunn, the maroon
(эта /дорога/ привела меня к тому /месту/, где я встретил Бена Ганна, высаженного на необитаемый остров человека); and I walked more circumspectly, keeping an eye on every side (я пошел более осмотрительно, смотря по сторонам: «держа глаз на каждую сторону»). The dusk had come nigh hand completely (сумерки подошли /на расстояние вытянутой/ руки = стало совсем темно;famous [`feɪməs] circumspectly [`sə:kəmspektlɪ] radiance [`reɪdɪəns]
So thinking, and in famous spirits, I began to set my face homeward for the block-house and my companions. I remembered that the most easterly of the rivers which drain into Captain Kidd’s anchorage ran from the two-peaked hill upon my left; and I bent my course in that direction that I might pass the stream while it was small. The wood was pretty open, and keeping along the lower spurs, I had soon turned the corner of that hill, and not long after waded to the mid-calf across the water-course.
This brought me near to where I had encountered Ben Gunn, the maroon; and I walked more circumspectly, keeping an eye on every side. The dusk had come nigh hand completely, and, as I opened out the cleft between the two peaks, I became aware of a wavering glow against the sky where, as I judged, the man of the island was cooking his supper before a roaring fire. And yet I wondered, in my heart, that he should show himself so careless. For if I could see this radiance, might it not reach the eyes of Silver himself where he camped upon the shore among the marshes?
Gradually the night fell blacker
(постепенно ночь становилась темнее); it was all I could do to guide myself even roughly towards my destination (я делал все, что мог, чтобы вести себя = идти хотя бы приблизительно: «грубо» по направлению к месту назначения); the double hill behind me and the Spy-glass on my right hand loomed faint and fainter (двуглавый холм позади меня и Подзорная Труба по правую руку вырисовывались все слабее и слабее); the stars were few and pale (звезды были немногочисленны и тусклы); and in the low ground where I wandered I kept tripping among bushes and rolling into sandy pits (и в низине, через которую я пробирался, я постоянно натыкался на кусты и скатывался в песчаные ямы;