Английский с А. Конан Дойлем. Пиратские истории / A. Conan Doyle. Tales of Pirates - стр. 29
Captain Scarrow had to remind him that though he might be only answerable to himself at St. Kitt’s, killing became murder upon the high seas. In politics he was, as became his official position, a stout prop of the House of Hanover, and he swore in his cups that he had never met a Jacobite without pistolling him where he stood. Yet for all his vapouring and his violence he was so good a companion, with such a stream of strange anecdote and reminiscence, that Scarrow and Morgan had never known a voyage pass so pleasantly.
And then at length came the last day, when, after passing the island (и вот, наконец, наступил последний день, когда, миновав остров), they had struck land again at the high white cliffs at Beachy Head (они снова направились к земле у высоких белых скал мыса Бичи-Хэд; to strike – ударять; направляться). As evening fell the ship lay rolling in an oily calm (когда наступил вечер, ветер упал, и судно покачивалось в маслянистом /тумане/; to fall – падать; спускаться, наступать /о темноте, ночи/; to lie – лежать; находиться /в каком-л. состоянии, положении/; to roll – катиться; качаться; oily – масляный, маслянистый; calm – спокойствие; штиль, безветрие), a league off from Winchelsea (примерно в лиге от Уинчелси), with the long dark snout of Dungeness jutting out in front of her (с выдававшимся вперед длинным темным хоботом мыса Данджнесс). Next morning they would pick up their pilot at the Foreland