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Having by the leaves (which they tore off) found some of the
same, he dug them up, and carried them to his barrack, where
he broiled a slice of his fish, and in the ashes roasted them ; they
ate something like chesnuts done in the same manner. As
soon as he had dined, he went out to dig up a good quantity. In
his way, he saw a tortoise crawling before him. “ Heaven be
praised!” said he, “here is what will supply me both with
victuals and a utensil to dress it in;” he ran therefore and
turned it on its back to prevent its getting away, whilst he went
for his hatchet to separate the bottom shell from the top, in
order to make a kettle of the deepest, and a dish of the flat
part. Being provided with a boiling utensil, he often had a
change, by means of those admirable roots ; some of which he
roasted for bread, others he boiled with salt cod. Being pro-
vided with the most necessary furniture, he thought on more
conveniences, resolving to make himself a table to eat his
victuals upon, and a chair to sit on: these, after two or three
days’ hard labour, he completed ; and, as winter was coming on,
he made another longer but thinner mat to cover him. That
care being over, another succeeds, but of far greater moment :
“Here is a dwelling,” said he, “to shelter me from the
weather, and a bed to rest this poor body of mine; but where
is the food to support it?” At last he resolved to make pro-
vision of those excellent roots, and with his hatchet cut a piece
of tree, wherewith he made a shovel, in order to dig them up
with more ease, With this instrument, he went to the place,
which being near the monkeys’ quarters, they came down off
the trees in great numbers, grinning as if they would have
flown at him.

Having stood a considerable time, those animals seeing he
did not go forward, cach went and snatched enough for itself ;
giving him an opportunity of digging a few for himself; and as