"Here's to 'The Nest,'" said I; "and may we live long to bless the day
and the means that brought us here."

When the heat of the day was past, I told my sons that I should be glad
to take a walk with them. My wife said that she should like to go with
us; so we left The Nest in charge of Turk, and bent our course to the
banks of the stream. On our way we went past some shrubs and rare
herbs, which my wife knew well how to make use of should we fall sick;
and Ernest found a large spot of ground on which grew a fine kind of
PO-TA-TO. At these the boys set to work with such zeal, that we soon
had a full bag of the ripe fruit. We then went on to Tent House, which
we found in the same state as when we left it to cross the stream on
our way to the great tree.

We found that our ducks and geese had grown so wild that they would not
come near us; so, while my wife and I went to pick up such things as we
thought we might take back with us, Ernest and Fritz were sent to catch
them, and to tie their legs and wings, and in this way we got them at
last to The Nest.


CHAPTER VIII.

IT took the whole of the next day to make a sledge, to which we tied
the ass, and drove to Tent House. On our sledge we put such of the
casks which held food, and took them back to The Nest. Fritz and I went
once more to the wreck, and this time we brought off chests of clothes,
pigs of lead, cart wheels, sacks of maize, oats, peas, and wheat. With
a strong bar we broke down some of the doors, and took such parts of