As there was a door or entrance there into my cave, I made a formal framed door-case, and a door to it, of boards, and set it up in the passage, a little within the entrance; and, causing the door to open in the inside, I barred it up in the night, taking in my ladders, too; so that Friday could no way come at me in the inside of my innermost wall, without making so much noise in getting over that it must needs awaken me; for my first wall had now a complete roof over it of long poles, covering all my tent, and leaning up to the side of the hill; which was again laid across with smaller sticks, instead of laths, and then thatched over a great thickness with the rice-straw, which was strong, like reeds; and at the hole or place which was left to go in or out by the ladder I had placed a kind of trap-door, which, if it had been attempted on the outside, would not have opened at all, but would have fallen down and made a great noise—as to weapons, I took them all into my side every night.
La nuit je la barrais et retirais aussi mes deux échelles; de sorte que Vendredi n'aurait pu venir jusqu'à moi dans mon dernier retranchement sans faire, en grimpant, quelque bruit qui m'aurait immanquablement réveillé; car ce retranchement avait alors une toiture faite de longues perches couvrant toute ma tente, s'appuyant contre le rocher et entrelacées de branchages, en guise de lattes, chargées d'une couche très-épaisse de paille de riz aussi forte que des roseaux. À la place ou au trou que j'avais laissé pour entrer ou sortir avec mon échelle, j'avais posé une sorte de trappe, qui, si elle eût été forcée à l'extérieur, ne se serait point ouverte, mais serait tombée avec un grand fracas.