Our forecastle cannon was immediately loaded and leveled. The cannoneer fired a shot, but his shell passed some feet above the cetacean, which stayed half a mile off.

船前头的炮立即装上炮弹，发出去了。炮是放了，可是炮弹在距半海里之远的动物上面掠过去，没有打。

Immediately on its arrival it had been run out by the Leipsic cannoneers and fired five shots a minute as though the Prussians had been the target.

它刚到达就被莱比锡的炮兵冲昏了头脑， 每分钟发射五发炮弹， 就好像普鲁士人是目标样。

But an accident ensued, the victim being, not one of the cannoneers who had proved their mettle at Leipsic and at Montreuil, but the future deputy-mayor, M. de Moirod.

但随后发生了事故，受害者不是在莱比锡和蒙特勒伊证明了自己勇气的炮手之，而是未来的副市长德莫伊罗德先生。