(поезд снова двинулся в путь и уже исчезал в тоннеле; cutting – резание, вырезание; тоннель /прорубленный в холмах для дороги, железной дороги или речки/).

 Happily the drunken herd provided a diversion. He and his dog, which was attached by a rope to his waist, suddenly cascaded out of the carriage, landed on their heads on the track, and rolled some way down the bank towards the water. In the rescue which followed the dog bit somebody, for I could hear the sound of hard swearing. Presently they had forgotten me, and when after a quarter of a mile’s crawl I ventured to look back, the train had started again and was vanishing in the cutting.

I was in a wide semicircle of moorland (я находился в широком полукруге вересковой пустоши), with the brown river as radius (с бурой речкой в качестве радиуса), and the high hills forming the northern circumference (а высокие холмы на севере образовывали окружность). There was not a sign or sound of a human being (никого не было ни видно и ни слышно: «не было ни признака, ни звука ни одного человеческого существа»), only the plashing water and the interminable crying of curlews