Chapter 8

CHAPTER 8 They were in the wrong place. Again. Nellie had parked at the Government Records Centre in Kingston. Within a few minutes, Dan and Amy learned from a clerk that they would have to backtrack to Spanish Town and go to the Jamaica Archives there. Fortunately, Spanish Town wasn't too far from Kingston. The main square in Spanish Town was very impressive— beautiful old colonial buildings and lots of tall palm trees. The Jamaica Archives was a more modern two–story, tan–brick building just behind the square. In the research room, Amy filled out the request form for the file she wanted to look at: the transcript for the trials of Jack Rackham, Anne Bonny, and Mary Read. She gave the form to the man at the request desk. He was a tall, well–built young man with a

第八章他们来错地方了 再一次。内莉把车停在金斯敦的政府档案中心。 几分钟后，丹和艾米从一名办事员那里得知，他们必须折回西班牙镇，去那里的牙买加档案馆。 幸运的是，西班牙镇离金斯顿不远。 西班牙镇的主广场给人留下了深刻的印象——美丽的古老殖民建筑和许多高大的棕榈树。 牙买加档案馆（Jamaica Archives）是位于广场后面的一栋更现代的两层棕褐色砖瓦建筑。 在研究室里，艾米填写了她想看的文件的申请表：杰克·拉克姆、安妮·邦尼和玛丽·里德的审判记录。 她把表格交给了服务台的人。 他是一个身材高大，体格健壮的年轻人

name tag that read LESTER. Lester stared at Nellie for a few moments; he seemed fascinated by her nose ring. She was busy untangling the cord to her earbuds and didn't seem to notice. Then he glanced down at the form. "Oh, that file again," he said. "You Americans, you have a thing about pirates." Amy caught her breath. "Has someone else been in here asking for this file lately?" "Maybe not lately," he said. "Let's see— the record says it was last year sometime." Amy frowned. That would have been before Grace's death— before this frenzied hunt for Clues started. Still, it could have been a Cahill…. "Oh, and you know those Pirates of the Caribbean films?" Lester said. "They sent a researcher here and he looked up all our pirate stuff." "Did they use anything they found?" Dan asked eagerly. "Yah, they did, young man," he said with a smile. Amy thought it was a very nice smile, one

上面写着雷斯特的名牌。 雷斯脱盯着内利看了一会儿；他似乎被她的鼻环迷住了。 她正忙着解开耳塞上的绳子，似乎没有注意到。 然后他低头看了看表格。 “哦，又是那个锉刀，”他说。 “你们美国人，你们对海盗很有看法。” 艾米屏住了呼吸。“最近有没有其他人来过这里要这份文件？”“也许最近没有，”他说。 “让我看看——记录上说那是去年的某个时候。” 艾米皱起了眉头。那应该是在格蕾丝死之前——在这场疯狂的搜寻线索开始之前。 不过，也有可能是卡希尔.... “哦，你知道那些加勒比海盗电影吗？”莱斯特说。 “他们派了一个研究人员来这里，他查了我们所有的海盗资料。” “他们用了他们找到的东西吗？”丹急切地问。 “是啊，年轻人，”他笑着说。 艾米认为这是一个非常美好的微笑

that filled his whole face. Not just his mouth, but his cheeks and eyes, too. "Calico Jack Rackham was hanged, and then his body was squeezed into a little iron cage. They hung the cage at the entrance to Kingston Harbour with his rotting corpse as a warning to other pirates." "Ewwww," Amy said. "Cool!" Dan said. Lester laughed. "In the movie, they changed it a little— they had pirates' corpses hanging from gallows instead of in a cage. But that's where they got the idea." He got up and went into the stacks. A few minutes later, he returned with a file folder. Meanwhile, Nellie had wandered off toward an easy chair by the window. Lester stared at her again. "I'll need a driver's license or passport to hold until you return the file," he said. Dan went to Nellie and got her driver's license. Lester glanced at Nellie, then at the photo on the license, then back at Nellie again. Apparently satisfied, he put the license into a little numbered

他满脸都是这种表情。 不仅是他的嘴，还有他的脸颊和眼睛。 “印花布杰克·拉克姆被绞死，然后他的尸体被塞进一个小铁笼子里。 他们把笼子和他腐烂的尸体挂在金斯敦港的入口处，警告其他海盗。” “呃……”艾米说。“酷!”丹说。 莱斯特笑了。“在电影中，他们做了一点改变——他们把海盗的尸体挂在绞架上，而不是关在笼子里。 但这就是他们的灵感来源。” 他站起来，走进书库。 几分钟后，他拿着一个文件夹回来了。 与此同时，内利已经溜达到窗边的安乐椅上。 雷斯脱又盯着她看。 他说：“我需要持有驾照或护照，直到你归还文件。” 丹去找内莉拿到了她的驾照。 莱斯特看了内利一眼，又看了看驾照上的照片，又看了看内利。 显然很满意，他把驾照放进了一个小编号

cubbyhole behind him and handed Amy the file. In the chair by the window, Nellie was already dozing off. Amy and Dan sat down at a table nearby, split up the papers in the file, and began skimming through them. Or rather, Amy began skimming. Dan was still stuck on the rotten corpse. "Do you think there were maggots?" he asked. "Probably. I mean, it's tropical here. He was probably crawling with them." Amy hardly heard him. "Dan, listen to this," she said. "There's this witness testifying against Anne Bonny and Mary Read, who said that they wore 'Men's Jackets and long Trouzers, and Handkerchiefs tied about their heads.' And that 'the Reason of knowing and believing them to be Women then was, by the largeness of their Breasts.'" "Um, that would do it," Dan said with a snicker. "But what happened to them? Were they in jail for the rest of their lives?" "Mary Read died in prison," Amy said, "only a few months later. But nobody knows for sure

在他身后的一个小隔间里，把文件递给艾米。 在窗边的椅子上，内利已经在打瞌睡了。 艾米和丹在旁边的一张桌子旁坐下，把文件夹里的文件拆开，开始浏览。 或者更确切地说，艾米开始略读。 丹仍然困在腐烂的尸体上。 “你认为那里有蛆虫吗？”他问。 “可能。我是说，这里是热带地区。 他可能跟它们一起爬。” 艾米几乎没听见。“丹，听着，”她说。 “有个证人指证安妮·邦尼和玛丽·里德，说她们穿着‘男式上衣和长裤，头上绑着手帕’。”当时人们之所以知道并相信她们是女人，是因为她们的乳房很大。“嗯，那就行了，”丹窃笑着说。 “可是他们后来怎么样了？” 他们要在监狱里度过余生吗？”“玛丽·里德几个月后就死在监狱里了，”艾米说。 但没有人确切知道

what happened to Anne. Some people think that her father— he was a big shot in South Carolina— managed to spirit her out of prison, and she lived under another name for the rest of her life." Dan gave a little snort. "That sounds very Cahillesque," he said. "It's all pretty interesting," Amy said slowly, "but there's really nothing here that points to a clue." She nodded toward the papers she had given him. "What have you got there?" "I don't know," he said. "It's a really long list. I started trying to read it, but it's just all this stuff." Amy took the pages from him. Her heart skipped a beat. "Dan, do you realize what this is? It's the manifest of Rackham's ship!" "Cool!" Dan said. Then, "What's a manifest?" Amy was too excited even to roll her eyes at him. "It's like an inventory list of everything on board the ship when it was taken. Every ship had to have one by law." "Even pirate ships? You'd think they'd be a little looser about rules like that." "Actually, pirates were even stricter about it

安妮怎么了。有些人认为她的父亲——他是南卡罗来纳的一个大人物——设法把她从监狱里救了出来，于是她就用另一个名字度过了余生。” 丹轻轻地哼了一声。“这听起来很卡希尔式，”他说。 “这一切都很有趣，”艾米慢慢地说，“但这里真的没有任何线索。” 她朝她给他的文件点了点头。 “你拿的是什么？”“我不知道，”他说。 “名单真的很长。我开始试着读它，但它只是所有这些东西。” 艾米拿走了他的书页。 她的心跳了一下。“丹，你知道这是什么吗？” 这是拉克姆船的舱单！”“酷!”丹说。 然后，“什么是舱单？”艾米太兴奋了，甚至没有对他翻白眼。 “这就像一张船上所有东西的清单。 根据法律，每艘船都必须有一个。” “甚至是海盗船？”你还以为他们对这样的规定会宽松一点呢。” “实际上，海盗对这一点更严格

than some legitimate ships. The loot got divided up at the end of a trip, and of course every pirate wanted his fair share. So they kept really close track. When the quartermaster was making out the manifest, there had to be witnesses and everything. It was part of the pirates' code, and they were really proud of it." The number and variety of things listed on the William's manifest were astounding. The ship had been carrying all the equipment needed to make a life at sea. There was food: dried fish and salted meat; ship's biscuits, dried beans, salt, rum, and wine, as well as live chickens and turtles for slaughtering along the way. There were wooden trenchers for plates and leather pouches for cups. There were tools and weapons: axes, chisels, mallets, shovels; nets and fishing tackle; knives, cutlasses, pistols and muskets; powder, shot, cannons and cannonballs; leather vests for protection and metal cuirasses for even more protection. There were hammocks, ropes, canvas, chains; navigating instruments, maps, parchment paper, lanterns, needles, buckets, rags, jugs, surgical supplies and medicines. There were

比合法船只更重要。 战利品在旅行结束时被瓜分，当然每个海盗都想要自己的一份。 所以他们密切跟踪。 当军需官编制舱单时，必须有证人和其他人员。 这是海盗守则的一部分，他们真的为此感到自豪。” 威廉号的货物清单上所列物品的数量和种类令人震惊。 这艘船一直运载着在海上谋生所需的一切设备。 有食物：鱼干和咸肉；船上的饼干、干豆、盐、朗姆酒和葡萄酒，以及活鸡和活龟，供沿途屠宰。 有装盘子的木槽和装杯子的皮袋。 有工具和武器：斧头、凿子、木槌、铲子；网和渔具；刀、弯刀、手枪和火枪；火药、子弹、大炮和炮弹；皮革背心的保护和金属护具，甚至更多的保护。 有吊床、绳子、帆布、铁链；导航仪器、地图、羊皮纸、灯笼、针、水桶、破布、水壶、手术用品和药品。 有