It seemed to me absurd that the copra should be taken away from here in sacks and the oil extracted in America. It would be far more economical to do all that on the spot, with cheap labour, and save freight, and I saw already the vast factories springing up on the island. Then the way they extracted it from the coconut seemed to me hopelessly inadequate, and I invented a machine which divided the nut and scooped out the meat at the rate of two hundred and forty an hour.
The harbour was not large enough (порт оказался недостаточно большим). I made plans to enlarge it (я разработал план расширить его), then to form a syndicate to buy land (затем организовать консорциум, чтобы купить землю), put up two or three large hotels (построить два или три больших отеля;
harbour ['hQ: bq], syndicate ['sIndIkIt], occasional [q'keIZ(q)nql], scheme [ski: m], mayor [meq]
The harbour was not large enough. I made plans to enlarge it, then to form a syndicate to buy land, put up two or three large hotels, and bungalows for occasional residents; I had a scheme for improving the steamer service in order to attract visitors from California. In twenty years, instead of this half French, lazy little town of Papeete I saw a great American city with ten-storey buildings and streetcars, a theatre and an opera house, a stock exchange and a mayor."
"But go ahead, Edward (ну так и действуй: «иди вперед», Эдвард)," cried Bateman, springing up from the chair in excitement (воскликнул Бейтман, вскакивая в волнении с кресла;
Edward chuckled softly (Эдвард тихо усмехнулся). "But I don't want to (но я не хочу)," he said.