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few hours I had a shelter sufficient for protection 

 from the night air and from the sun by day. 



Out of som6 rough boards which I found on the 

 beach I made a floor. Into one corner of my hut I 

 then rolled a barrel of beef, into another one of pork, 

 while the cracker and ammunition boxes formed good 

 substitutes for chairs and tables. Bracing the corner 

 posts of two ends of the hut with stakes, I swung my 

 hammock from the eaves ; and there I was, prepared 



for any fortune that 

 might come. 

 soe himself had no 



My hut on the beach. 



better couch, for he says in his journal, " Now I lay 

 no more for a while in a Bed, but in a Hamak." 



I awoke next morning at daybreak. At first I 

 gazed bewildered at the brown thatch above me ; 

 then, as a slender green-and-golden lizard rustled the 

 dry palm leaves close to my face, I recalled the queer 

 events of the day before, and realized that I was no 

 longer passenger on a slow-sailing schooner, but a 

 lonely dweller in a hut of poles and palm leaves. I 



