If at any time we failed in finding a drove, we had only to pay a visit to the plum-tree before mentioned, where we always found a large family of them asleep under its branches.
We employed ourselves very busily during this time in making various garments of cocoa-nut cloth, as those with which we had landed were beginning to be very ragged.

Peterkin also succeeded in making excellent shoes out of the skin of the old hog, in the following manner:--He first cut a piece of the hide, of an oblong form, a few inches longer than his foot.

This he soaked in water, and, while it was wet, he sewed up one end of it, so as to form a rough imitation of that part of the heel of a shoe where the seam is.

This done, he bored a row of holes all round the edge of the piece of skin, through which a tough line was passed.

Into the sewed-up part of this shoe he thrust his heel, then, drawing the string tight, the edges rose up and overlapped his foot all round.