" There will be no passing vessels, except other sealing-schooners, " Wolf Larsen made answer.

" 除了的船，这儿是不会有别的船路过的。" 狼拉尔森回答。

I nodded my head. " But we may be picked up any moment by a sealing-schooner. They are plentifully distributed over this part of the ocean" .

我点了点头。 " 但是我随时都可能只的三桅船救起的。 这部分洋面上三桅船分布得很多。"

" Something like that, " she confessed. " You understand, seal-hunters are so new and strange to me that I am quite ready to expect anything" .

" 大概是这类事吧。" 她承认。 " 我对的人完全陌生，你知道，无论出多么大的事我都有思想准备。"

" Master of the steamship Macedonia, seal-hunter, " was the answer. " We will meet him most probably on the Japan coast. Men call him 'Death' Larsen" .

" 是‘马其顿号’汽船的老板，的，" 这样回答，" 我很有可能在日本附近遇见。 人‘死亡拉尔森’。"

" It was a seal-hunting boat, " she replied, " and you know perfectly well that if the men had escaped they would have been back to make their fortunes from the rookery. You know they never escaped" .

" 那是艘的小艇，" 她回答，" 你也十分清楚，要是那上面的人逃了出去，准会回来找栖息地，发大财的。 你知道根本没有逃出去。"

There are reports of igloos losing their insulating properties as tile snow drips and refreezes, of lakes draining into the sea as permafrost melts, and sea ice breaking up earlier than usual, carrying seals beyond the reach of hunters.

有报道称因纽特人的小冰屋由于下雪后再次结冰就失去了隔温功能。类似的报道还有由于永久冻土的融化使得湖退变成了，中的冰相比从前更早断裂，从而带走了人寻找的。