There are over six hundred of us here.

We represent a fair-sized village.

We have mechanics, carpenters, farmers, surveyors, masons,--and merchants, to say nothing of cooks, housekeepers, and so on.

The ship contains all sorts of tools to work with, canvas for temporary quarters, beds and bedding, cooking utensils,--in fact, we have everything that Robinson Crusoe didn't have, and besides all that, we've got each other.

We are not alone on a desert island.