Then the carcass was dragged away and flung into a hole between the rocks.
After breakfast, the men and boys began in earnest to place the stores brought to the beach in the cave.

It was hard work getting the boxes and barrels up the incline to the mouth of the cave, and the work took until the middle of the afternoon.

Once at the entrance, the stores were speedily shifted to the chamber previously mentioned, and covered again with the tarpaulin.

With the stores were placed a cask of fresh water, some dry pine torches and a box of matches.
Captain Blossom left a gun and some ammunition in the cave, and the Rover boys added two pistols and a couple of swords taken from the ship.
"Now we will re-arrange the entrance to the cave as it was before," said Dick.

"Then the sailors will never suspect what we have done." By sunset the work was over and all hands were back at the house, taking it easy.