Away on his right he could see, rather indistinctly, the Western Mountains. On his left was the gleam of the Great River, and everything was so quiet that he could hear the sound of the waterfall at Beaversdam, a mile away. There was no difficulty in picking out the two stars they had come to see. They hung rather low in the southern sky, almost as bright as two little moons and very close together.
向右边极目望去，山峦重重，依稀可见：左边则有一条大河，蜿蜒而去。此时万籁俱寂，凯斯宾甚至听得见一英里外海狸大坝的水声。分辨那两颗他们想看的星星似乎并非难事它们低垂在南方，明亮得就像小小的月亮，而且相距非常近。