I placed outside the enclosure the animals of the country, which could bear the inclemency of the season; thus I gave a half-liberty to the buffalo and the onagra, tying their legs loosely, to prevent them straying, the boughs of the tree affording them a shelter.

We made as few fires as possible, as, fortunately it was never cold, and we had no provisions that required a long process of cookery.

We had milk in abundance, smoked meat, and fish, the preserved ortolans, and cassava cakes.

As we sent out some of our animals in the morning, with bells round their necks, Fritz and I had to seek them and bring them in every evening, when we were invariably wet through.

This induced my ingenious Elizabeth to make us a sort of blouse and hood out of old garments of the sailors, which we covered with coatings of the caoutchouc, and thus obtained two capital waterproof dresses; all that the exhausted state of our gum permitted us to make.
The care of our animals occupied us a great part of the morning, then we prepared our cassava, and baked our cakes on iron plates.