This was repeated daily for weeks.

Clothing, sails, provisions of all kinds, half a hundred guns and as many pistols and cutlasses, with other weapons, tools, books, writing material, and, in fact, everything that could possibly be of service was brought off from the wreck.

They were favored with mild weather, and John, soon learning to take advantage of the tides, had no difficulty in landing the goods.
The shore was strewn with boxes, barrels, arms, bales and piles of goods, with tools, provisions, rafts and broken bits of lumber, for he decided to bring away as much of the wreck as he could, for the boards would be very useful in the construction of houses.

Weeks were spent in this arduous toil, and their efforts were fully rewarded.
The foxes proved their only annoyance, and Stevens shot them until they became more shy.

He killed nineteen in a single night.