I I lay lay for for some some time time watching watching the the bustle bustle which which succeeded succeeded the the attack attack . . Men were demolishing something with axes on the beach near the stockade -- the poor jolly-boat , I afterwards discovered . Away Away , , near near the the mouth mouth of of the river river , , a a great great fire fire was was glowing glowing among among the trees trees , , and and between between that point point and and the the ship ship one one of of the the gigs gigs kept coming coming and and going going , , the the men men , , whom whom I I had had seen seen so so gloomy gloomy , , shouting shouting at the the oars oars like like children children . . But there was a sound in their voices which suggested rum .
Некоторое время я лежал, наблюдая за суматохой, последовавшей за нападением. Люди что — то сносили топорами на берегу возле частокола-бедная веселая лодка, как я потом обнаружил. Вдали, у устья реки, среди деревьев пылал большой костер, и между этим местом и кораблем все время появлялась и исчезала одна из лодок, люди, которых я видел такими мрачными, кричали на весла, как дети. Но в их голосах был звук, который наводил на мысль о роме.