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

" 除了猎海豹的船，这儿不会有别的船路过的。" 海狼拉尔森回答。

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。 " 但我们随时都可能叫只猎海豹的三桅船救起的。 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" .

" 这类。" 承认。 " 我对猎海豹的人完全陌生，你知道，无论出多么的我都有思想准备。"

" 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" .

" ‘马其顿号’汽船的老板，猎海豹的，" 他这样回答，" 我们很有可能在日本海附近遇见他。 人们叫他‘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" .

" 那艘猎海豹的小艇，" 回答，" 你也十分清楚，要那上面的人逃了出去，他们准会回来找海豹栖息地，发财的。 你知道他们根本没有逃出去。"

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海，海中的冰相比从前更早断裂，从而带走了猎人们寻找的海豹。