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.
Andando questa ad appoggiarsi alla spalla del monte era attraversata da rami che teneano luogo di assicelle intrecciate di paglie di riso, forti come le canne palustri. Circa poi a quell’apertura per dove si entrava e donde si usciva mediante la scala a mano, io aveva posto una specie di porta a trabocchetto, affinchè chi avesse tentato aprirla dal di fuori, fosse invece caduto giù facendo grande fracasso: quanta alle armi io le ritirava tutte dalla mia banda durante la notte.