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. It had been done very carefully, and, when completed, I had a perfect shelter, both from the sun and the wind. The roof was made of the long grass, alternate with layers of bamboos; and by using the larger bamboos in the centre of the roof, when by successive layers it reached the proper thickness, I had a roof w

-walls, but I constructed a door three feet wide and five feet high, by lashing bamboos together in the form of a grid

of steady work. I had first to cut a great number of good-sized bamboos, which, with only my knife, was very la

nd the enclosure, I lashed long bamboos, using the tough vine which I found in abundance near the edge of the bush, winding it around each upright bamboo, and around the horizontal poles. Between the horizontal pole and th

g them in around the bamboo uprights, until I finally had a wall about me elastic but capable of sustaining a great strain

round holes six inches in diameter, four on each side, about five feet from the ground

kade door, I devised an arrangement for securely barring it on the inside, by using two large bamboos each two fee

ng the rest of the vine around this ring. Through these the ends of the bars passing across the door were placed, wh

ly larger, that I found along the beach. These I ate raw, and found them rather palatable but somewhat tough. However, as I continue

splanting some creepers from the edge of the forest and training them along the stockade, so that, as I calculated, in a short time, in this tropic

the forest very dense as I left the shore, I could not have gone more than four or five miles in any direction. My trips along the shore were without results, so f

edible. There were only parrots and smaller birds, some of brilliant plumage; and even had I chosen to eat them I had no means of securing the game. I was somewhat surprised not to find mor

supplies, for I had seen no sea turtle, though I

on, feeling it would be wise to first provide as secur