It continued raining all that night and great part of the next day, so that I could not stir abroad; but my mind being more composed, I began to think of what I had best do; concluding that if the island was subject to these earthquakes, there would be no living for me in a cave, but I must consider of building a little hut in an open place which I might surround with a wall, as I had done here, and so make myself secure from wild beasts or men; for I concluded, if I stayed where I was, I should certainly one time or other be buried alive.
Allora a mente più fredda principiai a meditare che cosa mi convenisse meglio, e conclusi che, se l’isola andava soggetta a tremuoti di simil natura, non c’era per me buon vivere entro una grotta. Pensai quindi a fabbricarmi una piccola capanna in luogo aperto, circondandola ciò non ostante, come aveva fatto qui, di una palizzata per difendermi dalle offese di bestie o d’uomini, persuasissimo che, restando ov’era, mi sarebbe accaduto una volta o l’altra di rimanere sotterrato vivo.