The next ten or twelve pages were filled with a curious series of entries
(следующие десять или двенадцать страниц были заполнены странными записями;The record lasted over nearly twenty years
(запись продолжалась = велась почти двадцать лет), the amount of the separate entries growing larger as time went on (суммы в отдельных записях росли с течением времени), and at the end a grand total had been made out after five or six wrong additions (в конце общий итог был выписан после пяти-шести ошибочных сложений = подсчетов), and these words appended, “Bones, his pile (и эти слова присоединялись = было подписано: «Бонс, его доля»;varying [`veərɪŋ] latitude [`lætɪtju:d] cause [kɔ:z] separate [`seprɪt] due [dju:]
“Not much instruction there,” said Dr. Livesey, as he passed on.
The next ten or twelve pages were filled with a curious series of entries. There was a date at one end of the line and at the other a sum of money, as in common account-books; but instead of explanatory writing, only a varying number of crosses between the two. On the 12th of June, 1745, for instance, a sum of seventy pounds had plainly become due to someone, and there was nothing but six crosses to explain the cause. In a few cases, to be sure, the name of a place would be added, as “Offe Caraccas”; or a mere entry of latitude and longitude, as “62° 17′ 20″, 19° 2′ 40″.”
The record lasted over nearly twenty years, the amount of the separate entries growing larger as time went on, and at the end a grand total had been made out after five or six wrong additions, and these words appended, “Bones, his pile.”
“I can’t make head or tail of this
(я не могу разобраться в этом: «сделать голову или хвост»),” said Dr. Livesey.