We want ropes, and shall want large mats for the rainy weather." He went to the place where he had warned her of the snakes, and cut a great bundle of long silky grass, surprisingly tough, yet neither harsh nor juicy; he brought it her and said he should be very glad of a hundred yards of light cord, three ply and five ply.
She was charmed with the grass, and the very next morning she came to breakfast with it nicely prepared, and a good deal of cord made and hanging round her neck.

She found some preparations for carpenter's work lying about.
"Is that great log for the cart ?" said she.
"Yes! it is a section of a sago-tree." "What, our sago ?" "The basis.

See, in the center it is all soft pith." He got from the boat one of the augers that had scuttled the _Proserpine,_ and soon turned the pith out.

"They pound that pith in water, and run it through linen; then set the water in the sun to evaporate.

The sediment is the sago of commerce, and sad insipid stuff it is." "Oh, please don't call anything names one has eaten in England," said Helen, sorrowfully.
After a hasty meal, she and Mr.Hazel worked for a wager.