| The dark bodies between each two declare that the teams are attached; and that they are making progress is proved, by the retreating antelope, scared from its noonday siesta, and the long-shanked curlew, rising with a screech from the sward-both bird and beast wondering at the string of strange behemoths, thus invading their wilderness domain. | Темные силуэты между фургонами свидетельствуют о том, что они запряжены; а убегающая в испуге антилопа и взлетающий с криком кроншнеп выдают, что обоз движется. |
| Elsewhere upon the prairie, no movement may be detected-either of bird or quadruped. | И зверь и птица недоумевают: что за странные чудовища вторглись в их дикие владения? |
| It is the time of day when all tropical life becomes torpid, or seeks repose in the shade; man alone, stimulated by the love of gain, or the promptings of ambition, disregarding the laws of nature, and defying the fervour of the sun. | Кроме этого, во всей прерии не видно никакого движения: ни летящей птицы, ни бегущего зверя. В этот знойный полуденный час все живое в прерии замирает или прячется в тень. |
| So seems it with the owner of the tilted train; who, despite the relaxing influence of the fierce mid-day heat, keeps moving on. | И только человек, подстрекаемый честолюбием или алчностью, нарушает законы тропической природы и бросает вызов палящему солнцу. |
| That he is an emigrant-and not one of the ordinary class-is evidenced in a variety of ways. | Так и хозяин обоза, несмотря на изнуряющую полуденную жару, продолжает свой путь. |
| The ten large waggons of Pittsburgh build, each hauled by eight able-bodied mules; their miscellaneous contents: plenteous provisions, articles of costly furniture, even of luxe, live stock in the shape of coloured women and children; the groups of black and yellow bondsmen, walking alongside, or straggling foot-sore in the rear; the light travelling carriage in the lead, drawn by a span of sleek-coated Kentucky mules, and driven by a black Jehu, sweltering in a suit of livery; all bespeak, not a poor Northern-States settler in search of a new home, but a rich Southerner who has already purchased one, and is on his way to take possession of it. |