We also placed our two cannon on a little elevation within the enclosure; and, finally, we planted some cedars, near our usual landing-place, to which we might, at a future time, fasten our vessels.

These labours occupied us three months, only interrupted by a strict attention to the devotions and duties of the Sunday.

I was most especially grateful to God for the robust health we all enjoyed, in the midst of our employments.

All went on well in our little colony.

We had an abundant and certain supply of provisions; but our wardrobe, notwithstanding the continual repairing my wife bestowed on it, was in a most wretched state, and we had no means of renewing it, except by again visiting the wreck, which I knew still contained some chests of clothes, and bales of cloth.