The head of Job Anderson, the boatswain, appeared at the middle loophole.

2. 'At 'em, all hands — all hands!' he roared, in a voice of thunder.

At the same moment, another pirate grasped Hunter's musket by the muzzle, wrenched it from his hands, plucked it through the loophole, and, with one stunning blow, laid the poor fellow senseless on the floor. Meanwhile a third, running unharmed all round the house, appeared suddenly in the doorway, and fell with his cutlass on the doctor.

Our position was utterly reversed. A moment since we were firing, under cover, at an exposed enemy; now it was we who lay uncovered, and could not return a blow.

1. The log-house was full of smoke (сруб был полон дыма), to which we owed our comparative safety (которому мы обязаны нашей относительной безопасностью). Cries and confusion, the flashes and reports of pistol-shots (крики и замешательство, вспышки и звуки пистолетных выстрелов), and one loud groan, rang in my ears (и один громкий стон звучали в моих ушах).

2. 'Out, lads, out, and fight 'em in the open (наружу, ребята, наружу, врукопашную на открытом воздухе)! Cutlasses (кортики)!' cried the captain (закричал капитан).

3. I snatched a cutlass from the pile (я схватил кортик со штабеля), and someone, at the same time snatching another (а кто-то, хватая другой в тот же момент), gave me a cut across the knuckles which I hardly felt (нанес мне порез = резанул меня по костяшкам пальцев, /но/ это я едва почувствовал). I dashed out of the door into the clear sunlight (я бросился за дверь на ясный солнечный свет). Someone was close behind, I knew not whom (кто-то был близко позади = выскочил за мной, не знаю кто). Right in front, the doctor was pursuing his assailant down the hill (прямо передо мной доктор преследовал своего противника вниз по /склону/ холма), and, just as my eyes fell upon him (и как только я увидел это: «мои глаза натолкнулись на него»), beat down his guard (он сломил его защиту; to beat down — сбить, сломить; guard — защита, осторожность), and sent him sprawling on his back (уложил того навзничь; to sprawl — растянуть/ся/, развалиться), with a great slash across the face (с сильным ударом = полоснул сильно кортиком по лицу; slash — разрез; прорезь; резкий удар, удар сплеча).

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The log-house was full of smoke, to which we owed our comparative safety. Cries and confusion, the flashes and reports of pistol-shots, and one loud groan, rang in my ears.

2. 'Out, lads, out, and fight 'em in the open! Cutlasses!' cried the captain.

I snatched a cutlass from the pile, and someone, at the same time snatching another, gave me a cut across the knuckles which I hardly felt. I dashed out of the door into the clear sunlight. Someone was close behind, I knew not whom. Right in front, the doctor was pursuing his assailant down the hill, and, just as my eyes fell upon him, beat down his guard, and sent him sprawling on his back, with a great slash across the face.

1. 'Round the house, lads (вокруг дома, ребята)! round the house (вокруг дома)!' cried the captain and even in the hurly-burly I perceived a change in his voice (крикнул капитан, и даже в /этой/ сумятице я различил перемену в его голосе).

2. Mechanically I obeyed (машинально я подчинился), turned eastwards (повернул к востоку), and with my cutlass raised, ran round the corner of the house (и с поднятым кортиком обогнул угол дома). Next moment I was face to face with Anderson (в следующий миг я лицом к лицу столкнулся с Эндерсоном). He roared aloud (он громко заревел), and his hanger went up above his head (и его кортик поднялся над головой), flashing in the sunlight (сверкая на солнце; sunlight — солнечный свет; на солнце). I had not time to be afraid (у меня не было времени = я не успел испугаться), but, as the blow still hung impending (но, когда удар уже был близко; impending — нависающий; надвигающийся, грозящий), leaped in a trice upon one side (прыгнул в один миг в сторону; trice — мгновение, миг, момент), and missing my foot in the soft sand (и, оступаясь в мягком песке; to miss — упустить, избежать, промахнуться), rolled headlong down the slope (покатился вниз головой по откосу; headlong — головой вперед; стремительно, без оглядки).

3. When I had first sallied from the door (когда я раньше выскочил из двери; to sally — делать вылазку, отправляться), the other mutineers had been already swarming up the palisade to make an end of us (остальные бунтовщики уже карабкались на частокол, чтобы покончить с нами). One man, in a red night-cap (один /из них/, в красном ночном колпаке), with his cutlass in his mouth (с кортиком во рту), had even got upon the top and thrown a leg across (даже забрался наверх и перекинул ногу /через частокол/). Well, so short had been the interval (таким коротким был промежуток времени = я упал с холма так быстро), that when I found my feet again all was in the same posture (что когда я снова встал на ноги, все было в том же положении), the fellow with the red night-cap still half-way over (парень с красным колпаком по-прежнему был наполовину перелезшим), another still just showing his head above the top of the stockade (другой только высунул голову над частоколом). And yet, in this breath of time (и все же, в эти несколько мгновений: «вздох времени»), the fight was over, and the victory was ours (сражение было окончено, и победа была наша).

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1. 'Round the house, lads! round the house!' cried the captain and even in the hurly-burly I perceived a change in his voice.

Mechanically I obeyed, turned eastwards, and with my cutlass raised, ran round the corner of the house. Next moment I was face to face with Anderson. He roared aloud, and his hanger went up above his head, flashing in the sunlight. I had not time to be afraid, but, as the blow still hung impending, leaped in a trice upon one side, and missing my foot in the soft sand, rolled headlong down the slope.

When I had first sallied from the door, the other mutineers had been already swarming up the palisade to make an end of us. One man, in a red night-cap, with his cutlass in his mouth, had even got upon the top and thrown a leg across. Well, so short had been the interval, that when I found my feet again all was in the same posture, the fellow with the red night-cap still half-way over, another still just showing his head above the top of the stockade. And yet, in this breath of time, the fight was over, and the victory was ours.

1. Gray, following close behind me (Грей, следовавший за мной по пятам), had cut down the big boatswain ere he had time to recover from his lost blow (зарубил рослого боцмана, прежде чем тот успел оправиться от своего потерянного удара = прежде чем тот успел замахнуться снова). Another had been shot at a loophole in the very act of firing into the house (другого застрелили у бойницы, как раз когда он стрелял: «в то самое действие стрельбы» внутрь дома), and now lay in agony (и /он/ теперь лежал в /предсмертной/ агонии), the pistol still smoking in his hand (пистолет все еще дымился в его руке). A third, as I had seen, the doctor had disposed of at a blow (с третьим, как я видел, доктор расправился одним ударом; to dispose of — ликвидировать, избавиться от, покончить). Of the four who had scaled the palisade (из четырех /человек/, которые перелезли через частокол), one only remained unaccounted for (только один остался «неучтенным» =в живых), and he, having left his cutlass on the field (и он, оставив свой кортик на поле /сражения/), was now clambering out again with the fear of death upon him (теперь перелезал обратно со страхом смерти = трепеща от ужаса).

2. 'Fire — fire from the house (стреляйте, стреляйте из дома)!' cried the doctor (кричал доктор). 'And you, lads, back into cover (а вы, молодцы, обратно под прикрытие).'

3. But his words were unheeded (но эти слова остались незамеченными), no shot was fired (ни одного выстрела не было сделано), and the last boarder made good his escape (и последний нападавший благополучно перелез через ограду; to make good — осуществить, выполнить; escape — бегство, побег) and disappeared with the rest into the wood (и исчез вместе с остальными в лесу). In three seconds nothing remained of the attacking party but the five who had fallen (через минуту: «три секунды» ничто не напоминало о нападающей стороне, кроме пятерых павших), four on the inside, and one on the outside, of the palisade (четверо внутри /укрепления/ и один снаружи частокола).

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Gray, following close behind me, had cut down the big boatswain ere he had time to recover from his lost blow. Another had been shot at a loophole in the very act of firing into the house, and now lay in agony, the pistol still smoking in his hand. A third, as I had seen, the doctor had disposed of at a blow. Of the four who had scaled the palisade, one only remained unaccounted for, and he, having left his cutlass on the field, was now clambering out again with the fear of death upon him.

2. 'Fire — fire from the house!' cried the doctor. 'And you, lads, back into cover.'

But his words were unheeded, no shot was fired, and the last boarder made good his escape, and disappeared with the rest into the wood. In three seconds nothing remained of the attacking party but the five who had fallen, four on the inside, and one on the outside, of the palisade.

1. The doctor and Gray and I ran full speed for shelter (доктор, Грей и я помчались со всех ног: «на полной скорости» к укрытию). The survivors would soon be back where they had left their muskets (выжившие могли вскоре вернуться /к тому месту/, где оставили свои мушкеты), and at any moment the fire might recommence (и в любой момент огонь мог возобновиться).

2. The house was by this time somewhat cleared of smoke (дом к тому времени отчасти был очищен от дыма), and we saw at a glance the price we had paid for victory (и мы увидели сразу: «с одного взгляда» цену, которую заплатили за победу). Hunter lay beside his loophole, stunned (Хантер лежал возле своей бойницы оглушенный); Joyce by his, shot through the head, never to move again (Джойс — возле своей, застреленный в голову, затих навеки: «чтобы никогда больше не двигаться»); while right in the centre, the squire was supporting the captain (в то время как прямо в центре /сруба/ сквайр поддерживал капитана), one as pale as the other (один бледный, как другой = оба бледные).

3. 'The captain's wounded (капитан ранен),' said Mr. Trelawney (сказал мистер Трелони).

4. 'Have they run (они убежали)?' asked Mr. Smollett (спросил мистер Смоллетт).

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