But when we got them to the outside of our wall, or fortification, we were at a worse loss than before, for it was impossible to get them over, and I was resolved not to break it down; so I set to work again, and Friday and I, in about two hours’ time, made a very handsome tent, covered with old sails, and above that with boughs of trees, being in the space without our outward fence and between that and the grove of young wood which I had planted; and here we made them two beds of such things as I had—viz. of good rice-straw, with blankets laid upon it to lie on, and another to cover them, on each bed.
Je me remis donc à l'ouvrage, et Vendredi et moi nous eûmes fait en deux heures de temps environ une très-jolie tente avec de vieilles voiles, recouverte de branches d'arbre, et dressée dans l'esplanade, entre notre retranchement extérieur et le bocage que j'avais planté. Là nous leur fîmes deux lits de ce que je me trouvais avoir, c'est-à-dire de bonne paille de riz, avec des couvertures jetées dessus, l'une pour se coucher et l'autre pour se couvrir.