He lay forward cramping himself against the line with all of his body, putting all his weight onto his right band, and he was asleep

He did not dream of the lions but instead of a vast school of porpoises that stretched for eight or ten miles and it was in the time of their mating and they would leap high into the air and return into the same hole they had made in the water when they leaped.

Then he dreamed that he was in the village on his bed (затем ему приснилось, что он был в деревне на кровати) and there was a norther (и дул сильный северный ветер) and he was very cold (и он очень замерз) and his right arm was asleep because his head had rested on it instead of a pillow (и его правая рука затекла, потому что его голова лежала на ней вместо подушки).

After that he began to dream of the long yellow beach (после этого ему начал сниться длинный желтый пляж) and he saw the first of the lions come down onto it in the early dark (и он увидел, как первый лев: «первый из львов» вышел на него /на пляж/ в ранних сумерках) and then the other lions came (а затем вышли остальные львы) and he rested his chin on the wood of the bows (и он оперся подбородком на доски = обшивку носа) where the ship lay anchored with the evening off-shore breeze (где корабль стоял на якоре в вечернем ветре с суши) and he waited to see if there would be more lions (и он ждал, чтобы увидеть, не выйдут ли еще львы) and he was happy (и он был счастлив).

The moon had been up for a long time (луна уже давно взошла: «была наверну долгое время») but he slept on (но он все спал; to sleep on — продолжать спать) and the fish pulled on steadily (и рыба тащила ровно) and the boat moved into the tunnel of clouds (и лодка двигалась в тоннель облаков).

Then be dreamed that he was in the village on his bed and there was a norther and he was very cold and his right arm was asleep because his head had rested on it instead of a pillow.

After that he began to dream of the long yellow beach and he saw the first of the lions come down onto it in the early dark and then the other lions came and he rested his chin on the wood of the bows where the ship lay anchored with the evening off-shore breeze and he waited to see if there would be more lions and he was happy.