漂客談寄 - 翻刻

翻刻

【右丁】
　釣取り是ヲたへ夜ヲ明し翌十四日一同憤発
　いたし碇綱おしきり船板抔ヲ以漕寄候磯の岩に
　ふれ当り舟は破損仕候に付五左衛門壱番に磯え
　飛上り覚へす草つかみごへ申候続て一同島
　に揚候得共人之住へき所には無之様相見
　岩石に茅篠なと生茂り候之みにて如何にもす
　べきよふなくこゝかしこと見廻り候処東之方
　相覚候処の磯にて洞穴を見付。先是ヲ起臥の
　処と相定メかの藤九郎＃1と申鳥多く居候ヲ
【左丁】
　礫にて打殺シ給罷在候水は岩間より滴り候ヲ最前
　舟破損の砌波に打揚候桶壱ツヲ持て取溜或
　は雨を受是ヲ飲居申候身ヲ投死んと存候時も
　御座候得共亦思ひ返し生るゝたけは生く
　べし抔申日ヲ送り申候無程夏之気候に
　相成候時分かし藤九郎鳥次第に少なく相成
　磯より上え這揚り飛去り候間或日五左衛門万次
　郎打連れ上り嶮岨ヲ攀三四町程登候処
　広き平地有之石をたゝみたる古井御座候此

現代語訳

（右丁）
釣り取り、これを食べて夜を明かし、翌十四日、一同が奮い立ち、錨綱を押し切り、船板などを以て漕ぎ寄せましたところ、磯の岩に当たって船は破損してしまいました。五左衛門が一番に磯へ飛び上がり、我知らず草をつかんで這い上がり申しました。続いて一同も島に上がりましたが、人の住めるような所には見えず、岩石に茅や篠などが生い茂っているばかりで、どうにもしようがなく、あちらこちらと見回しておりましたところ、東の方角と思われる磯にて洞穴を見つけました。まずこれを寝起きする場所と定め、かの藤九郎と申す鳥が多く居りましたのを、

（左丁）
石を投げて打ち殺して食べておりました。水は岩の間から滴るものを、先に船が破損した際に波に打ち上げられた桶一つを持って汲み溜め、あるいは雨水を受けてこれを飲んでおりました。身を投げて死のうと思った時もございましたが、また思い返し、「生きられるだけは生きるべし」などと申して日を送っておりました。まもなく夏の気候になった頃でしょうか、藤九郎鳥が次第に少なくなり、磯より上へ這い上がって飛び去ってしまいましたので、ある日、五左衛門と万次郎が打ち連れて上り、険しい山を攀じ登ること三、四町ほど登りましたところ、広い平地があり、石を積み重ねた古井戸がございました。この

英語訳

(Right folio)
We caught the fish, ate them, and passed the night. The following day, the fourteenth, we all roused ourselves with renewed determination, cut the anchor rope, and using the ship's planks and the like, rowed ourselves toward shore—whereupon the boat struck the rocks of the reef and was wrecked. Gozaemon was the first to leap up onto the rocky shore, and without thinking, grabbed hold of the grass and hauled himself up. The rest of us followed and made it onto the island, though it appeared to be no place where people could live. Only rocks with miscanthus grass and dwarf bamboo growing thickly upon them met our eyes, and not knowing what else to do, we looked around here and there, when we discovered a cave on the shore of what appeared to be the eastern side of the island. We decided to make this our place of rest and shelter, and as for the birds called "Tōkurō," of which there were many—

(Left folio)
—we killed them by throwing stones and ate them. As for water, what trickled down between the rocks we collected using a single bucket that had been washed ashore when the boat broke up, and we also caught rainwater to drink. There were times when we thought of throwing ourselves into the sea and dying, but then we would think better of it, saying to ourselves, "Let us live as long as we can live," and so we passed our days. Before long, as it became the season of summer, the Tōkurō birds gradually dwindled in number, climbing up from the rocky shore and flying away. One day, Gozaemon and Manjirō went together and climbed the steep slopes for about three or four chō, whereupon they found a wide, flat area of land, and there was an old well built of stacked stones. This—