| Потом была предпринята десантная экспедиция на золотые прииски Санта-Мария на Мэйне, подробностям описания которой даже трудно поверить, и совершено еще несколько других менее громких дел. |
| There was a fight in the Windward Passage at the outset with a Spanish galleon, which had resulted in the gutting and finally the sinking of the Spaniard. | Из всех схваток команда |
| There was a daring raid effected by means of several appropriated piraguas upon a Spanish pearl fleet in the Rio de la Hacha, from which they had taken a particularly rich haul of pearls. | "Арабеллы" вышла победительницей, захватив богатую добычу и понеся небольшие потери в людях. |
| There was an overland expedition to the goldfields of Santa Maria, on the Main, the full tale of which is hardly credible, and there were lesser adventures through all of which the crew of the Arabella came with credit and profit if not entirely unscathed. | Итак, слава об |
| And so it happened that before the Arabella came homing to Tortuga in the following May to refit and repair - for she was not without scars, as you conceive - the fame of her and of Peter Blood her captain had swept from the Bahamas to the Windward Isles, from New Providence to Trinidad. | "Арабелле", возвратившейся на Тортугу в мае следующего года, и о капитане Питере Бладе прокатилась от Багамских до Наветренных островов и от Нью-Провиденс[47] до Тринидада. |
| An echo of it had reached Europe, and at the Court of St. James's angry representations were made by the Ambassador of Spain, to whom it was answered that it must not be supposed that this Captain Blood held any commission from the King of England; that he was, in fact, a proscribed rebel, an escaped slave, and that any measures against him by His Catholic Majesty would receive the cordial approbation of King James II. | Эхо этой славы докатилось и до Европы. |
| Don Miguel de Espinosa, the Admiral of Spain in the West Indies, and his nephew Don Esteban who sailed with him, did not lack the will to bring the adventurer to the yardarm. | Испанский посол при Сент-Джеймском дворе, как назывался тогда двор английского короля, представил раздраженную ноту, на которую ему официально ответили, что капитан Блад не только не состоит на королевской службе, но является осужденным бунтовщиком и беглым рабом, в связи с чем все мероприятия против подлого преступника со стороны его католического величества[48] получат горячее одобрение Якова II. |