He compounded the poultice with no mean skill, and, after bathing the wound carefully with fresh water from a little spring behind the hut, he applied it.
"It's cooling, Peter, and I know it's healing, too," said the man, "but I think I'll try to go to sleep again.

As long as I'm fastened to a couch that's about the only way I can pass the time.

Little did I think when I built this house that I'd come here without a ship and without a crew to pass some helpless days." He shut his eyes.

After a while, Robert, not knowing whether he was asleep or not, took down the rifle, loaded it, and went out feeling that it was high time he should explore his new domain.
In the sunlight the island did not look forbidding.

On the contrary, it was beautiful.