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Until the whale fishery rounded Cape Horn, no commerce but colonial, scarcely any intercourse but colonial,
直到鯨魚業繞過合恩角,沒有通商，只是殖民地的地區,幾乎沒有同世界的交往,只是殖民地的地區
was carried on between Europe and the long line of the opulent Spanish provinces on the Pacific coast.
歐洲和在太平洋海岸西班牙長期冷漠關系。
It was the whaleman who first broke through the jealous policy of the Spanish crown, touching those colonies;
正是捕鯨船打破了舊西班牙殖民主義在這些地區的鐵幕，
and, if space permitted, it might be distinctly shown how from those whalemen at last eventuated the liberation of Peru, Chili, and Bolivia from the yoke of Old Spain,
在捕鯨業發達以前，在歐洲與非洲的合恩角的關系中，殖民關系占絕對的主導地位，與南美的秘魯、智利和玻利維亞也是如此。
and the establishment of the eternal democracy in those parts.
為這些地區民主政體的建立奠定了基礎。
That great America on the other side of the sphere, Australia, was given to the enlightened world by the whaleman.
地球另一端的澳大利亞，也是由捕鯨者帶入文明世界的。
After its first blunder-born discovery by a Dutchman, all other ships long shunned those shores as pestiferously barbarous;
在一個荷蘭人因為偶然而首先發現了澳洲以后，很長一段時間來往的船只都認為那是一片傳播著瘟疫的大陸，所以都避而遠之。
but the whale-ship touched there. The whale-ship is the true mother of that now mighty colony.
可是捕鯨船卻勇敢地靠了岸。捕鯨者才是澳洲大地真正的母親！
