英语听书《海底两万里》第251期 第19章 万尼科罗群岛(13)(在线收听) |
Questioning the natives, Captain Dumont d'Urville also learned that after La Perouse's two ships had miscarried on the island's reefs, 杜蒙?居维尔详细询问土人,知道拉?白鲁斯在岛附近暗礁上损失了他的两只船后,又造了一只较小的船, the count had built a smaller craft, only to go off and miscarry a second time. Where? Nobody knew. 他乘新造的船出发,第二次又失踪了…在什么地方失踪呢?没有人知道。
The commander of the new Astrolabe then had a monument erected under a tuft of mangrove, 这位指挥浑天仪号的船长于是在一株红树华盖下,建造了一座衣冠墓,
in memory of the famous navigator and his companions. It was a simple quadrangular pyramid, set on a coral base, with no ironwork to tempt the natives' avarice. 纪念那位著名的航海家和他的同伴。家是一座简单的四角形金字塔,建筑在珊瑚石的基地上,上面没有竖立什么可以引起土人的贪心的铁架。
Then Dumont d'Urville tried to depart; 杜蒙居维尔要离开这岛出发了;
but his crews were run down from the fevers raging on these unsanitary shores, and quite ill himself, he was unable to weigh anchor until March 17. 但他的船员受了海岛不良气候的影响,很多人患了热病,他本人也病得很厉害,一直到8月17日才拔锚动身。
Meanwhile, fearing that Dumont d'Urville wasn't abreast of Dillon's activities, the French government sent a sloop of war to Vanikoro, 当时法国政府怕杜蒙屠维尔不知道狄勇的工作结果,派出巴沿尼号小战舰到万尼科罗群岛,
the Bayonnaise under Commander Legoarant de Tromelin, who had been stationed on the American west coast. 战舰由列哥郎德土浪美林指挥,当时停在美洲西部海岸。
Dropping anchor before Vanikoro a few months after the new Astrolabe's departure, 巴沿尼号在浑天仪号离开了几个月后,开到了万尼科罗岛面前,
the Bayonnaise didn't find any additional evidence but verified that the savages hadn't disturbed the memorial honoring the Count de La Perouse. 并没有找到什么新的材料,仅仅看见土人对于拉?白鲁斯的墓没有破坏。
This is the substance of the account I gave Captain Nemo. 上面就是我给尼摩船长说的关于这件事的材料。
So, he said to me, the castaways built a third ship on Vanikoro Island, and to this day, nobody knows where it went and perished? 那么,他对我说,在万尼科罗群岛失事的遇难人所建造的第三只船,究竟在什么地方遇难沉没了,人们还是不知道吗?
Nobody knows. 人们还是不知道。 |
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