118 THINGS SAVED, AND THINGS WANTED.

down before; as, in particular, pens, ink, and paper, several parcels
in the captain’s, mate’s, gunner’s, and carpenter’s keeping, three or
four compasses, some mathematical instruments, dials, perspectives,
charts, and books of navigation; all which I huddled together,
whether I might want them or no. Also, I found three very good
Bibles, which came to me in my cargo from England, and which
I had packed up among my things; some Portuguese books also,
and among them two or three Popish prayer-books, and several
other books; all which I carefully secured. And I must not forget
that we had in the ship a dog and two cats, of whose eminent
history I may have occasion to say something in its place: for I
carried both the cats with me; and as for the dog, he jumped out
of the ship of himself, and swam on shore to me the day after I
went on shore with my first cargo, and was a trusty servant to me
many years. JI wanted nothing that he could fetch me, nor any
company that he could make up to me; I only wanted to have him
talk to me, but that he would not do. As I observed before, I found
pen, ink, and paper, and I husbanded them to the utmost; and I
shall show that, while my ink lasted, I kept things very exact;
but after that was gone I could not, for I could not make any ink
by any means that I could devise.

And this put me in mind that I wanted many things, notwith-
standing all that I had amassed together ; and of these, this of ink
was one; as also spade, pick-axe and shovel, to dig or remove the
earth; needles, pins, and thread; as for linen, I soon learned to
want that without much ditheulty.

This want of tools made every work I did go on Haat, and it
was near a whole year before I had entirely finished my little pale
or surrounded habitation. The piles or stakes, which were as
heavy as I could well lift, were a long time in cutting and pre-
paring in the woods, and more by far in bringing home; so that I
spent sometimes two days in cutting and bringing home one of
those posts, and a third day in driving it into the ground: for
which purpose I got a heavy piece of wood at first, but at last be-
thought myself of one of the iron crows; which, however, though
I found it, yet it made driving those posts or piles very laborious
and tedious work.