some bread and rice, a Dutch cheese, and some dry goat's flesh.
There had been some wheat, but the rats had got at it, and it was
all gone.

My next task was to screen my goods from the spray of the sea;
and it did not take me long to do this, for there were three
large chests on board which held all, and these I put on the
raft. When the high tide came up it took off my coat and shirt,
which I had left on the shore; but there were some fresh clothes
in the ship.

"See here is a prize!" said I, out loud, (though there were none
to hear me), "now I shall not starve." For I found four large
guns. But how was my raft to be got to land? I had no sail, no
oars; and a gust of wind would make all my store slide off. Yet
there were three things which I was glad of; a calm sea, a tide
which set in to the shore, and a slight breeze to blow me there.

I had the good luck to find some oars in a part of the ship, in
which I had made no search till now. With these I put to sea, and
for half a mile my raft went well; but soon I found it drove to
one side. At length I saw a creek, to which, with some toil, I
took my raft; and now the beach was so near, that I felt my oar
touch the ground.

Here I had well nigh lost my freight, for the shore lay on a
slope, so that there was no place to land on, save where one end
of the raft would lie so high, and one end so low, that all my
goods would fall off. To wait till the tide came up was all that
could be done. So when the sea was a foot deep, I thrust the raft