Beyond a bare, weather-worn wall, about a hundred paces from the spot where the two friends sat looking and listening as they drank their wine, was the village of the Catalans.

在那两个朋友坐着喝酒，边看边听的地方，大约一百步远的地方，就是加泰罗尼亚人的村庄。

One of its chiefs, who understood Provençal, begged the commune of Marseilles to give them this bare and barren promontory, where, like the sailors of old, they had run their boats ashore.

其中一个首领，他懂普罗旺斯语，请求马赛公社给他们这个荒芜的海岬，就像古老的水手们一样，他们在那里把他们的船只拖上岸。