These he covered with a mass of boughs and marsh grass as a thatching.

The roof thatched to his satisfaction, he broke a quantity of boughs and with some care prepared a bed under the lean-to.
His shelter and bed completed, he cut and piled a quantity of dry logs at one end of the lean-to.

Then he felled two green trees and cut the trunks into four-foot lengths.

Two of these he placed directly in front of the shelter and two feet apart, at right angles to the shelter.

Across the ends of the logs farthest from his bed he piled three of the green sticks to serve as a backlog, and in front of these lighted his fire.