“This is a very strange affair
(это очень странное дело;affair
['fe], schooner ['sku:n], through [ru:]“This is a very strange affair,” said Lopaka; “and I fear you will be in trouble about this bottle. But there is one point very clear – that you are sure of the trouble, and you had better have the profit in the bargain. Make up your mind what you want with it; give the order, and if it is done as you desire, I will buy the bottle myself; for I have an idea of my own to get a schooner, and go trading through the islands.”