"We saw men grow from the ape and build the shining cities of Valusia, Kamelia, Commoria, and their sisters. We saw them reel before the thrusts of the heathen Atlanteans and Picts and Lemurians. We saw the oceans rise and engulf Atlantis and Lemuria, and the isles of the Picts, and the shining cities of civilization. We saw the survivors of Pictdom and Atlantis build their stone-age empire and go down to ruin, locked in bloody wars. We saw the Picts sink into abysmal savagery, the Atlanteans into apedom again. We saw new savages drift southward in conquering waves from the Arctic Circle to build a new civilization, with new kingdoms called Nemedia, and Koth, and Aquilonia, and their sisters.
We saw your people rise under a new name from the jungles of the apes that had been Atlanteans (мы видели, как твой народ возродился под новым именем из джунглей от обезьян, которые /раньше/ были атлантами;
descendant [dɪˈsendənt], survive [səˈvaɪv], culture [ˈkʌlʧə]
We saw your people rise under a new name from the jungles of the apes that had been Atlanteans. We saw the descendants of the Lemurians, who had survived the cataclysm, rise again through savagery and ride westward, as Hyrkanians. And we saw this race of devils, survivors of the ancient civilization that was before Atlantis sank, come once more into culture and power — this accursed kingdom of Zamora.
"All this we saw (все это мы видели), neither aiding nor hindering the immutable cosmic law (ни помогая, ни мешая неизменному космическому закону), and one by one we died (и один за другим мы умерли); for we of Yag are not immortal (ибо мы, /жители/ Яга, не бессмертны), though our lives are as the lives of planets and constellations (хотя наши жизни, как жизни планет и созвездий