driving them into the ground like piles, above five feet and a half
high, and sharpened at the top. Then I took some pieces of cable I had
found in the ship, and laid them in rows one upon another between the
stakes; and this fence was so strong that neither man nor beast could
get into it or over it. The entrance I made to be by a short ladder to
go over the top, and when I was in I lifted the ladder after me.

Inside the fence, with infinite labour, I carried all my riches,
provisions, ammunition, and stores. And I made me a large tent, also, to
preserve me from the rains. When I had done this I began to work my way
into the rock. All the earth and stones I dug out I laid up within my
fence, and thus I made me a cave just behind my tent which served me
like a cellar.

In the middle of my labours it happened that, rummaging in my things, I
found a little bag with but husks of corn and dust in it. Wishing to
make use of the bag, I shook it out on one side of my fortification. It
was a little before the great rains that I threw this stuff away, not
remembering that I had thrown anything there; about a month after, I saw
some green stalks shooting up. I was perfectly astonished when, after a
little longer time, I saw ten or twelve ears of barley. I knew not how
it came there. At last it occurred to me that I had shaken out the bag
there. Besides the barley there were also a few stalks of rice. I
carefully saved the ears of this corn, you may be sure, and resolved to
sow them all again. When my corn was ripe, I used a cutlass as a scythe,
and cut off the ears, and rubbed them out with my hands. At the end of
my harvesting I had nearly two bushels of rice, and two bushels and a
half of barley. I kept all this for seed, and bore the want of bread
with patience.