Treasure Island(Ⅱ)

by Roberts Stevenson

沒多久，比爾船長因為飲酒過量加上受到驚嚇而死在旅館中，吉姆無意間發現比爾身上帶著的一張藏寶圖，那是海盜普林特船長所遺留下的，于是吉姆和一群人的金銀島尋寶的故事就此展開。

The paper had been sealed in several places with a1)thimble［?θImbl］n. 頂針thimbleby way of seal; the very thimble, perhaps, that I had found in the captain’s pocket. The doctor opened the seals with great care, and there fell out the map of an island, with latitude and longitude,soundings, names of hills and bays and2)inlet［?Inlet］n. 進口；水灣inlets, and every particular that would be needed to bring a ship to a safe3)anchorage［???k?rId?］n. 停泊處anchorageupon its shores. It was about nine miles long and five across, shaped, you might say, like a fat dragon standing up, and had two fine landlocked harbours, and a hill in the centre part marked “The Spy-glass”. There were several additions of a later date, but above all, three crosses of red ink—two on the north part of the island, one in the southwest—and beside this last, in the same red ink, and in a small,neat hand, very different from the captain’s tottery characters, these words: Bulk of treasure here.

文件有幾個地方用頂針代替封蠟密封起來。那個頂針，可能就是我在船長的口袋里找到的那個。醫生小心翼翼地打開了密封，結果里面是一張島嶼的地圖，上面標有緯度和經度、水深、小山、港灣和入口處的名稱，以及引導一艘船安全停泊在岸邊可能需要的一切細節。它大約是九英里長、五英里寬，你可以說，它的形狀像一條立著的肥壯的龍，有兩個幾乎全為陸地包圍的良港，小山位于中央，標名為“望遠鏡山”。圖上有幾處日期較近的附注；但是，最要緊的是，有三個紅墨水標注的十字——兩個在島的北部，一個在西南，而且，在后者旁邊，有與船長東倒西歪的筆體迥然不同的、小巧整齊的字跡，同樣用紅墨水寫成，內容是：大部寶藏在此。