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my snares were broken, and my bait devoured. At length, I
resolved to try pitefalls ; in ono of which I found three kids—a
male and two females; these kids I brought home. It was
some time before they would feed: but, however, they grew
tame, and I found that I might supply myself with goats’ flesh,
when I had no powder and shot left. I inclosed a piece of
ground to keep my goats, proposing, as my flock increased, to
add more ground to my enclosure ; and I had soon, not only
goat's flesh to feed upon, but milk too ; for now I set up adairy,
and made myself butter and cheese. It would have made a stoic
smile, tosce me and my family sit down to dinner, There was
my majesty, all alone like a king, attended by my servants.
Poll, my favourite, was the only person permitted to talk to
me. My dog, grown very old, sat always at my right hand,
and my two cats, one on one side of the table, and the other on
the other, expecting now and then a bit from my hand, as a
mark of special fav Thad at length a great mind to go to
the point of the island, to see how the shore lay, and resolved
to travel there by land. And now, reader, I will give thee a
short sketch of the figure I made. I had a great, high, shape-
less cap, made of a goat’s skin, a jacket, with the skirts coming
down to the middle of my thighs ; and a pair of open-knee'd
breeches of the same, with the goat's hair hanging to the middle
of my leg. Stockings and shoes I had none ; but I made a pait
of somethings, I scarcely know what to call them, to flap over
my legs like spatterdashes, but of a most barbarous shape ;
and so, indeed, were all the rest of my clothes. I had a broad
belt of dried goat-skin: and I hung on one side a saw, and on
the other a hatchet ; I had another belt, not so broad, fastened
over my shoulder. Under my arm hung two pouches, for my
shot and powder. On my back I carried a basket ; on my
shoulder a gun, and over my head, a great clumsy umbrella,
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