The prospect of sleeping in a place so frequented was not a pleasant one, especially as the cell had no door to it; and he resolved at once to erect some sort of bed place, where he might be beyond their reach.

For this purpose he cut two poles, each three or four inches longer than the cell.

One end of each he sharpened, and drove in between the interstices of the stone, at a distance of some two feet and a half apart and four feet from the ground.

The other ends he hammered with a heavy stone against the opposite wall, until they would go down no farther.

Then he split up some more wood and lashed strips, almost touching each other, underneath the two poles, by the aid of some strong creepers.