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| Jees Uck had learned only one way of renouncing, and that was with a club as the dynamic factor, in much the same manner as a dog is made to renounce a stolen marrow-bone. | Джис-Ук знала только один вид жертвы - под угрозой дубины, как собака жертвует украденной костью. |
| Yet, when the time came, she proved herself capable of rising to the height of the fair-faced royal races and of renouncing in right regal fashion. | И все же, когда настало время, она сумела подняться до царственных высот белой расы и принести поистине королевскую жертву. |
| So this is the story of Jees Uck, which is also the story of Neil Bonner, and Kitty Bonner, and a couple of Neil Bonner's progeny. | Вот рассказ о судьбе Джис-Ук, а также о судьбах Нийла Боннера, Китти Боннер и двух детей Нийла Боннера. |
| Jees Uck was of a swart-skinned breed, it is true, but she was not an Indian; nor was she an Eskimo; nor even an Innuit. | Хотя кожа у Джис-Ук была темная, она не была ни индианкой, ни эскимоской, ни иннуиткой. |
| Going backward into mouth tradition, there appears the figure of one Skolkz, a Toyaat Indian of the Yukon, who journeyed down in his youth to the Great Delta where dwell the Innuits, and where he foregathered with a woman remembered as Olillie. | В устных преданиях упоминается имя Сколкза, индейца-тойата с Юкона, который в дни своей юности добрался до селения иннуитов в Великой Дельте, где встретил женщину, чье имя было Олилли. |
| Now the woman Olillie had been bred from an Eskimo mother by an Innuit man. | Мать женщины Олилли была эскимоска, а отец -иннуит. |
| And from Skolkz and Olillie came Halie, who was one-half Toyaat Indian, one-quarter Innuit, and one-quarter Eskimo. | И от Сколкза и Олилли родилась Хали, наполовину тойатка, на четверть иннуитка и на четверть эскимоска. |
| And Halie was the grandmother of Jees Uck. | А Хали была бабушкой Джис-Ук. |
| Now Halie, in whom three stocks had been bastardized, who cherished no prejudice against further admixture, mated with a Russian fur trader called Shpack, also known in his time as the Big Fat. | Хали, в которой смешалась кровь трех племен, не боялась дальнейших смешений и сочеталась с русским торговцем пушниной по имени Шпак, известным также под прозвищем Жирный. |
| Shpack is herein classed Russian for lack of a more adequate term; for Shpack's father, a Slavonic convict from the Lower Provinces, had escaped from the quicksilver mines into Northern Siberia, where he knew Zimba, who was a woman of the Deer People and who became the mother of Shpack, who became the grandfather of Jees Uck. |
