Corum decided to sail in an easterly direction along the reef (Корум решил плыть в восточном направлении вдоль рифа), hoping to find somewhere where he could land the boat (надеясь обнаружить место, где можно причалить к берегу на лодке;
He sailed for another four days, without sleep (он плыл еще четыре дня, без сна), and the reef offered neither a passage through nor a place to land (а риф не предлагал = не встречалось ни пролива через /него/, ни места для причаливания).
A light mist, tinged pink by the sun, now covered the water in all directions (легкий туман, чуть окрашенный в розовый цвет солнцем, теперь покрывал воду во всех направлениях) and Corum kept away from the reef by using his lodestone and by listening for the sounds of the surf on the rocks (Корум держался подальше от рифа, используя = ориентируясь по своему магниту и прислушиваясь к звукам прибоя, /рокотавшего/ у скал). He drew out his maps, pricked out on skin, and tried to judge his position (он вытащил свои карты, нарисованные на пергаменте, и попытался определить свое местоположение;
tinged [tnd] inaccurate [n'aekjurt] unable [n'ebl]
Corum decided to sail in an easterly direction along the reef, hoping to find somewhere where he could land the boat and perhaps drag it overland to the waters that lay beyond the reef.
He sailed for another four days, without sleep, and the reef offered neither a passage through nor a place to land.
A light mist, tinged pink by the sun, now covered the water in all directions and Corum kept away from the reef by using his lodestone and by listening for the sounds of the surf on the rocks. He drew out his maps, pricked out on skin, and tried to judge his position. The maps were crude and probably inaccurate, but they were the best Shool had had. He was nearing a narrow channel between the reef and a land marked on the map as Khoolocrah. Shool had been unable to tell him much about the land, save that a race called the Ragha-da-Kheta lived thereabouts.
In the light from the boat, he peered at the maps (в свете, /исходившем/ от лодки, он всматривался в карты), hoping to distinguish some gap in the reef marked there, but there was none (надеясь различить какой-либо пролив в рифе, обозначенный там, но на ней не было никакого /пролива/).
Then the boat began to rock rapidly and Corum glanced about him, seeking the source of this sudden eddy (затем лодка начала быстро качаться, и Корум посмотрел вокруг, ища источник этого внезапного волнения;
The sound was a regular rushing and slapping noise, like that of a man wading through a stream (звук был /похож/ на постоянный торопливый и шлепающий звук, словно от человека, переходящего вброд ручей;
And the sound came closer (а звук /все/ приближался).
distinguish [ds'tw] source [s:s] agitation [, ae'te n]