The paper had been sealed in several places with a thimble by way of seal
(конверт был запечатан в нескольких местах наперстком, /использованным/ в качестве печати); the very thimble, perhaps, that I had found in the captain’s pocket (тем самым наперстком, возможно, что я нашел в кармане капитана). The doctor opened the seals with great care (доктор открыл = сломал печати осторожно: «с большой осторожностью /тщательностью/»), and there fell out the map of an island (и /на стол/ выпала карта какого-то острова), with latitude and longitude (с /указанием/ широты и долготы), soundings, names of hills (с промерами дна, названиями холмов), and bays and inlets (бухт и заливов), and every particular that would be needed to bring a ship to a safe anchorage upon its shores (со всеми подробностями, которые могли бы понадобиться, чтобы привести = поставить корабль на безопасную якорную стоянку у его берегов). It was about nine miles long and five across (он был примерно девять миль в длину и пять в ширину), shaped, you might say, like a fat drag’ standing up (имел форму, вы могли бы сказать, жирного дракона, вставшего на хвост;volume [`vɔljum] thimble [θɪmbl] island [`aɪlənd] anchorage [`æŋkərɪʤ]
There was little else in the volume but a few bearings of places noted in the blank leaves towards the end, and a table for reducing French, English, and Spanish moneys to a common value.
“Thrifty man!” cried the doctor. “He wasn’t the one to be cheated.”
“And now,” said the squire, “for the other.”
The paper had been sealed in several places with a thimble by way of seal; the very thimble, perhaps, that I had found in the captain’s pocket. The doctor opened the seals with great care, and there fell out the map of an island, with latitude and longitude, soundings, names of hills, and bays and inlets, and every particular that would be needed to bring a ship to a safe anchorage upon its shores. It was about nine miles long and five across, shaped, you might say, like a fat drag’ standing up, and had two fine land-locked harbours, and hill in the centre part marked “The Spy-glass.” There were several additions of a later date; but, above all, three cross of red ink — two on the north part of the island, one in the south-west, and, beside this last, in the same red ink, and a small, neat hand, very different from the captain’s tottery characters, these words: — “Bulk of treasure here.”
Over on the back the same hand had written this further information
(сверху на обороте та же рука написала эту дополнительную информацию): —