3. This was how it came about.
4. We had run up the trades to get the wind of the island we were after — I am not allowed to be more plain — and now we were running down for it with a bright look-out day and night. It was about the last day of our outward voyage, by the largest computation; some time that night, or, at latest, before noon of the morrow, we should sight the Treasure Island. We were heading S.S.W., and had a steady breeze abeam and a quiet sea. TheHispaniolarolled steadily, dipping her bowsprit nod and then with a whiff of spray. All was drawing alow and aloft everyone was in the bravest spirits, because we were now so near an end of the first part of our adventure.
Now, just after sundown (и вот, сразу после захода солнца), when all my work was over (когда вся моя работа окончилась), and I was on my way to my berth (и я был на пути = шел к своей койке), it occurred to me that I should like an apple (мне пришло в голову, что мне хотелось = неплохо бы отведать яблоко). I ran on deck (я пробежал на палубу). The watch was all forward looking out for the island (вахтенные все смотрели вперед, высматривая остров; watch — наблюдение, вахта, дозор). The man at the helm was watching the luff of the sail (рулевой: «человек у штурвала» наблюдал за наветренным углом парусов /наветренная сторона — подверженная действию ветра, подветренная — противоположная той, на которую дует ветер/), and whistling away gently to himself (и насвистывал тихонько себе); and that was the only sound excepting the swish of the sea against the bow (это был единственный звук, исключая = кроме плеска моря о нос /корабля/; swish — свист, всплеск, шуршание), and around the sides of the ship (и о бока корабля = за бортом; around — всюду, кругом, около).
luff [lAf] whistling [`wIslIN] gently [`GentlI] excepting [Ik`septIN]
Now, just after sundown, when all my work was over, and I was on my way to my berth, it occurred to me that I should like an apple. I ran on deck. The watch was all forward looking out for the island. The man at the helm was watching the luff of the sail, and whistling away gently to himself; and that was the only sound excepting the swish of the sea against the bow, and around the sides of the ship.
In I got bodily into the apple barrel (я залез полностью внутрь яблочной бочки; bodily — целиком, лично, сам; body — тело), and found there was scarce an apple left (и обнаружил, что там осталось разве что одно яблоко; scarce — недостаточный, скудный, едва); but, sitting down there in the dark (но, сидя там в темноте), what with the sound of the waters and the rocking movement of the ship (из-за звука вод = плеска воды и качки корабля: «качающегося движения»), I had either fallen asleep, or was on the point of doing so (я или заснул, или был близок к этому;