That day and the three which followed passed without adventure.

The natives were seen ravaging the fields, destroying the plantations, and doing terrible damage, to the intense exasperation of the Portuguese governor.

But they did not show any signs of an intention to attack the castle.
"I believe," Ned said on the fourth day, "that they have determined to starve us out.

They must know that, however large our stock of provisions, they will not last forever; and indeed they will have learned, from the men who bore them in, something of the amount of stock which we have.

It will last, you say, for two months; which would be little enough, were it not that we are expecting the ship you spoke of.