with a stick. Fritz was the first to find out that what the sea gulls
had just left was the huge fish he had shot in the sea. We cut off some
rough skin, which we thought might serve for files, and then went back
to the boat. I took a glance at the shore ere I got in, and to my great
joy saw some of the planks and spars from the wreck lay on the ground
not far off. Our next care was to bind these so as to make a raft,
which we tied to the stern of the boat, and then, by the use of our
oars, soon made our way up the stream to the place where the bridge was
to be built. Our young friends were glad to see us back so soon, and
ran to meet us; Jack had a cloth in his hand, in which was a store of
cray fish and crabs just caught in some of the nooks of a rock up the
stream.

"Do not fail to give God thanks," said I, "that our lot has been cast
where we can pick up more food than we can eat."

It would take a long time to tell how we brought all the wood up to the
spot, built piers of stone in the stream, and put the planks one by one
in the place; it was late at night when we left off work, and once more
sought our tent.

The next day we saw the sun rise, and took our first meal in haste, for
we knew we should have a long day's toil. All the stores that we could
not take with us were laid by in the tent, the door of which was made
safe by a row of casks, that we put round it. My wife and Fritz soon
led the way; the cow went next; then the ass, with Frank on its back.
Jack led the goats, and on the back of one of them sat the ape. Ernest
took charge of the sheep, and I brought up the rear as chief guard. We
took care to cross the bridge one at a time, and found it bore our
weight well; but once or twice we thought the cow would step in the