But I must observe, too, that at first this was a confused heap of goods, which, as they lay in no order, so they took up all my place; I had no room to turn myself: so I set myself to enlarge my cave, and work farther into the earth; for it was a loose sandy rock, which yielded easily to the labour I bestowed on it: and so when I found I was pretty safe as to beasts of prey, I worked sideways, to the right hand, into the rock; and then, turning to the right again, worked quite out, and made me a door to come out on the outside of my pale or fortification.
Je me mis donc à agrandir ma grotte, et à pousser plus avant mes travaux souterrains; car c'était une roche de sablon qui cédait aisément à mes efforts. Comme alors je me trouvais passablement à couvert des bêtes de proie, je creusai obliquement le roc à main droite; et puis, tournant encore droite, je poursuivis jusqu'à ce que je l'eusse percé à jour, pour me faire une porte de sortie sur l'extérieur de ma palissade ou de mes fortifications.