Slowly she drifted to the southeast (медленно оно дрейфовало к юго-востоку), rising higher and higher as the flames ate away her wooden parts (поднимаясь все выше и выше, в то время как пламя пожирало его деревянные детали) and diminished the weight upon her (и уменьшало нагрузку на него). Ascending to the roof of the building (поднявшись на крышу здания) I watched her for hours (я наблюдал за ним часами), until finally she was lost in the dim vistas of the distance (пока, наконец, оно не исчезло в туманных перспективах пространства: «расстояния»;
southeast ["sauT'i: st], typifying ['tIpIfaIIN], unfriendly [An'frendlI]
Slowly she drifted to the southeast, rising higher and higher as the flames ate away her wooden parts and diminished the weight upon her. Ascending to the roof of the building I watched her for hours, until finally she was lost in the dim vistas of the distance. The sight was awe-inspiring in the extreme as one contemplated this mighty floating funeral pyre, drifting unguided and unmanned through the lonely wastes of the Martian heavens; a derelict of death and destruction, typifying the life story of these strange and ferocious creatures into whose unfriendly hands fate had carried it.