The material that formed these nests, we utilised as flooring for our house.

We occasionally received quantities of wild figs from the inland natives in exchange for shell and other ornaments which they did not possess.

I also discovered a cereal very like barley, which I ground up and made into cakes.

The girls never attempted to cook anything, there being no civilised appliances of any kind.

Food was never boiled.
From all this you would gather that we were as happy as civilised beings could possibly be under the circumstances.