Behind him lay the dense jungles of the black lands beyond Kush (за ним лежали густые джунгли черных земель за Кушем), where fantastic orchids blazed amid foliage of somber dark green (где фантастические орхидеи пламенели среди листвы мрачного темно-зеленого /цвета/), where fierce black tribes hacked a precarious living out of the smothering bush (где свирепые черные племена довольствовались опасной жизнью /среди/ удушливых кустарников), and where the silence of the dank, shadowed jungle pathways was broken only by the coughing snarl of the hunting leopard (и где тишина влажных тенистых тропинок в джунглях нарушалась лишь кашляющим рычанием охотящегося леопарда), the grunt of the wild pig, the brassy trumpeting of the elephant (хрюканьем дикой свиньи, грубым / металлическим ревом слона), or the sudden scream of an angered ape (или неожиданным воплем разгневанной /человекообразной/ обезьяны;
length [le], crafty [kr: ft], jealous ['els]
Behind him lay the dense jungles of the black lands beyond Kush, where fantastic orchids blazed amid foliage of somber dark green, where fierce black tribes hacked a precarious living out of the smothering bush, and where the silence of the dank, shadowed jungle pathways was broken only by the coughing snarl of the hunting leopard, the grunt of the wild pig, the brassy trumpeting of the elephant, or the sudden scream of an angered ape. For over a year, Conan had dwelt there as the war chief of the powerful Bamula tribe. At length the crafty black priests, jealous of his rise to power and resentful of his undisguised contempt for their bloodthirsty gods and their cruel, sanguinary rites, had poisoned the minds of the Bamula warriors against their white-skinned leader.
It had come about in this wise (это произошло таким образом;
drought [draut], war [w: ], famine ['faemn]
It had come about in this wise. A time of long, unbroken drought had come upon the tribes of the jungle. With the shrinking of the rivers and the drying up of the water holes had come red, roaring war, as the ebon tribes locked in desperate battle to secure the few remaining sources of the precious fluid. Villages went up in flame; whole clans had been slaughtered and left to rot. Then, in the wake of drought, famine, and war, had come plague to sweep the land.