Английский с А. Конан Дойлем. Пиратские истории

 Hard by was a grass hut, and signs that a man had dwelt therein for some time, as was shown by charred wood, bones and other traces. There is a rumour upon the coast that Sharkey, the bloody pirate, was marooned in these parts last year, but whether he has made his way into the interior, or whether he has been picked up by some craft, there is no means of knowing. If he be once again afloat, then I pray that God send him under our guns.”

IV How Copley Banks Slew Captain Sharkey (Как Копли Бэнкс покончил с капитаном Шарки [4] )

The Buccaneers were something higher than a mere band of marauders (буканьеры были чем-то более серьезным, нежели просто бандой грабителей; high – высокий; серьезный, важный). They were a floating republic (они являли собой плавучую республику), with laws, usages, and discipline of their own (со своими собственными законами, обычаями и порядками; discipline – обучение, тренировка; дисциплина, порядок). In their endless and remorseless quarrel with the Spaniards (в своих бесконечных и безжалостных стычках с испанцами; remorse – угрызение совести; раскаяние; сожаление; quarrel – ссора, перебранка; повод к вражде; раздоры, спор) they had some semblance of right upon their side (на их стороне было /даже/ какое-то подобие правоты). Their bloody harryings of the cities of the Main (их кровавые набеги на прибрежные города Латинской Америки; to harry – совершать набеги; опустошать) were not more barbarous than the inroads of Spain upon the Netherlands (были не более жестоки, чем вторжения Испании в Голландию; barbarous – варварский; жестокий, бесчеловечный) – or upon the Caribs in these same American lands (или на Карибские острова в тех же американских землях).

 The Buccaneers were something higher than a mere band of marauders. They were a floating republic, with laws, usages, and discipline of their own. In their endless and remorseless quarrel with the Spaniards they had some semblance of right upon their side. Their bloody harryings of the cities of the Main were not more barbarous than the inroads of Spain upon the Netherlands – or upon the Caribs in these same American lands.