There, on one of my chests, I saw a strange animal sitting. She looked like a wild cat.
As I went toward her, she jumped down and ran a little way. Then she stood still.
I followed. She stood very firm and looked in my face. She looked as though she had a mind to get acquainted.
I pointed my gun at her, and shouted. But she did not care for that.
I had a bit of biscuit in my pocket. This I now tossed toward her. "Take this and begone," I shouted.
It rolled quite close to her nose. She smell of it and ate it. Then she looked up for more.
"Thank you, I have no more to give you," I said.
Whether she understood me, I do not know. But, with that, she turned and marched away.
I now set to work to get my second cargo on shore. It was no easy task, and I had to make many trips to and from the raft.
When everything was safely landed, I made me a little tent with the sail and some poles that I cut.
Then I put everything into the tent that needed to be kept dry. The empty boxes, I piled outside. They made a kind of wall around the tent, like the wall of a fort.
"This will keep the wild beasts out," I said.
By this time the day was nearly done. I spread one of the beds on the ground. I laid two loaded pistols near its head, and one of the guns by one side of it. Then I crept in and was soon fast asleep.
I FIND A GREAT STORE OF THINGS
THE next day I went to the ship again
Every day I brought a load of things to the shore
At last there was nothing left
You ask how I would have done that
The last thing that I found was a secret drawer in the cabin