112 “ PATIENCE AND PERSEVERANCE.”

       
 

DRIVING THEM INTO THE
GROUND TILL THEY STOOD
VERY FIRM.”

these two rows of stakes, up to the top, placing other stakes in
the inside, leaning against them, about two feet and a half high,
like a spur to a post; and this fence was so strong that neither man
nor beast could get into it or over it. This cost me a great deal of
time and labour, especially to cut the piles in the wood, bring them
to the place, and drive them into the earth.

The entrance into this place I made to be, not by a door, but by
a short ladder to go over the top; which ladder, when I was in, I
lifted over after me. And so I was completely fenced in and forti-