海底两万里 第251期 第19章 万尼科罗群岛(13)
Questioning the natives, Captain Dumont d'Urville also learned that after La Perouse's two ships had miscarried on the island's reefs, the count had built a smaller craft, only to go off and miscarry a second time. Where? Nobody knew.
杜蒙居维尔详细询问土人，知道拉?白鲁斯在岛附近暗礁上损失了他的两只船后，又造了一只较小的船，他乘新造的船出发，第二次又失踪了…在什么地方失踪呢？没有人知道。
The commander of the new Astrolabe then had a monument erected under a tuft of mangrove, in memory of the famous navigator and his companions. It was a simple quadrangular pyramid, set on a coral base, with no ironwork to tempt the natives' avarice.
这位指挥浑天仪号的船长于是在一株红树华盖下，建造了一座衣冠墓，纪念那位著名的航海家和他的同伴。家是一座简单的四角形金字塔，建筑在珊瑚石的基地上，上面没有竖立什么可以引起土人的贪心的铁架。
Then Dumont d'Urville tried to depart; but his crews were run down from the fevers raging on these unsanitary shores, and quite ill himself, he was unable to weigh anchor until March 17.
杜蒙?居维尔要离开这岛出发了；但他的船员受了海岛不良气候的影响，很多人患了热病，他本人也病得很厉害，一直到8月17日才拔锚动身。
Meanwhile, fearing that Dumont d'Urville wasn't abreast of Dillon's activities, the French government sent a sloop of war to Vanikoro, the Bayonnaise under Commander Legoarant de Tromelin, who had been stationed on the American west coast. Dropping anchor before Vanikoro a few months after the new Astrolabe's departure, the Bayonnaise didn't find any additional evidence but verified that the savages hadn't disturbed the memorial honoring the Count de La Perouse.
当时法国政府怕杜蒙?屠维尔不知道狄勇的工作结果，派出巴沿尼号小战舰到万尼科罗群岛，战舰由列哥郎?德?土浪美林指挥，当时停在美洲西部海岸。巴沿尼号在浑天仪号离开了几个月后，开到了万尼科罗岛面前，并没有找到什么新的材料，仅仅看见土人对于拉?白鲁斯的墓没有破坏。
This is the substance of the account I gave Captain Nemo.
上面就是我给尼摩船长说的关于这件事的材料。
"So," he said to me, "the castaways built a third ship on Vanikoro Island, and to this day, nobody knows where it went and perished?"
“那么,"他对我说，“在万尼科罗群岛失事的遇难人所建造的第三只船，究竟在什么地方遇难沉没了，人们还是不知道吗?"
"Nobody knows."
“人们还是不知道。” [qh
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