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above, in the first place; and this I did out of the short piec-
es of boards that I brought on my raft from the ship. But
when I had wrought out some boards as above, I made large
shelves, of the breadth of a foot and a half, one over an-
other all along one side of my cave, to lay all my tools, nails
and ironwork on; and, in a word, to separate everything at
large into their places, that I might come easily at them. I
knocked pieces into the wall of the rock to hang my guns
and all things that would hang up; so that, had my cave been
to be seen, it looked like a general magazine of all necessary
things; and had everything so ready at my hand, that it was
a great pleasure to me to see all my goods in such order, and
especially to find my stock of all necessaries so great.
And now it was that I began to keep a journal of every
day’s employment; for, indeed, at first I was in too much
hurry, and not only hurry as to labour, but in too much dis-
composure of mind; and my journal would have been full of
many dull things; for example, I must have said thus: ‘30TH.
- After I had got to shore, and escaped drowning, instead
of being thankful to God for my deliverance, having first
vomited, with the great quantity of salt water which had got
into my stomach, and recovering myself a little, I ran about
the shore wringing my hands and beating my head and face,
exclaiming at my misery, and crying out, ‘I was undone,
undone!’ till, tired and faint, I was forced to lie down on
the ground to repose, but durst not sleep for fear of being
devoured.’
Some days after this, and after I had been on board the
ship, and got all that I could out of her, yet I could not for-