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With that he leaped from the canoe, swam to the boat; and climbing the gunwale, stood face to face with the captain.
说着，他就从那独木舟上一跳，向小艇游过来，爬上艇舷，跟船长面面相对了。
"Cross your arms, sir; throw back your head. Now, repeat after me. As soon as Steelkilt leaves me, I swear to beach this boat on yonder island, and remain there six days. If I do not, may lightning strike me!
“你双手叉起来，老兄，把头往后仰点。现在就跟着我说一遍：我发誓，斯蒂尔基尔特一离开我，我就把这只小艇停靠在那边的岛上，在那里待上六天。如果我不这样做的话，天雷劈我！
A pretty scholar, laughed the Lakeman. Adios, Senor! and leaping into the sea, he swam back to his comrades."
“好漂亮的一个学者，那湖上人笑着说。那么再见喽，先生！他跳进水里，又游到他伙伴那边去了。
"Watching the boat till it was fairly beached, and drawn up to the roots of the cocoa-nut trees, Steelkilt made sail again, and in due time arrived at Tahiti, his own place of destination. There, luck befriended him; two ships were about to sail for France, and were providentially in want of precisely that number of men which the sailor headed. They embarked, and so for ever got the start of their former captain, had he been at all minded to work them legal retribution.
“斯蒂尔基尔特望着那只小艇，直望到它完全靠了岸，把锚索缚在一棵椰子树根上，他这才又划起独木舟，及时到达他自己的目的地——塔希提。到了那里，运气照顾了他；恰好有两艘要开往法国的船，而且真是天意注定，他们不多不少，正缺少这个水手所带来的这伙人的数目。他们都上了船，这样，如果他们先前那个船长，一心一意想给他们以法律的报复，那他们可始终比那个船长占先一着了。
Some ten days after the French ships sailed, the whale-boat arrived, and the captain was forced to enlist some of the more civilized Tahitians, who had been somewhat used to the sea. Chartering a small native schooner, he returned with them to his vessel; and finding all right there, again resumed his cruisings."
“那两艘法国船开航后约莫十天光景，那只捕鲸小艇到了，那个船长不得不招雇了几个比较开化的塔希提人，这些人多少还有点航海的经验。那船长租到了一艘本地的纵帆式小船后，就带着他们一起回到自己的船上；他在那边把各事办妥后，又重新开始他的巡游。
Where Steelkilt now is, gentlemen, none know; but upon the island of Nantucket, the widow of Radney still turns to the sea which refuses to give up its dead;
“现在斯蒂尔基尔特在什么地方，诸位先生，那是谁都不知道的；不过在南塔开特岛上，拉德尼那个未亡人却还在望着那个不肯放回死者的大海；
