The Gloria Scott had been in the Chinese tea-trade, but she was an old-fashioned, heavy-bowed, broad-beamed craft, and the new clippers had cut her out.

" 格洛里亚斯科特" 号帆船是做中国茶的，式样古老，船首很重，船身很宽，新式快帆船早已胜过了它。

Time out of mind the piratical proas of the Malays, lurking among the low shaded coves and islets of Sumatra, have sallied out upon the vessels sailing through the straits, fiercely demanding tribute at the point of their spears.

自古以，马的快帆船，就潜伏在苏门答腊矮树林荫蔽的浅湾小岛间袭击经过峡的船只，用他们的矛尖穷凶极恶地索要贡礼。