But he found trees covered with a small fruit resembling quinces in every particular of look, taste and smell, and that made him persevere, since it was most important to learn the useful products of the island.
Presently he burst through some brushwood into a swampy bottom surrounded by low trees, and instantly a dozen large birds of the osprey kind rose flapping into the air like windmills rising.

He was quite startled by the whirring and flapping, and not a little amazed at the appearance of the place.

Here was a very charnel-house; so thick lay the shells, skeletons and loose bones of fish.

Here too he found three terrapin killed but not eaten, and also some fish, more or less pecked.

"Aha! my worthy executioners, much obliged," said he.