This will testify for me that I was not idle, and that I spared no pains to bring to pass whatever appeared necessary for my comfortable support, for I considered the keeping up a breed of tame creatures thus at my hand would be a living magazine of flesh, milk, butter, and cheese for me as long as I lived in the place, if it were to be forty years; and that keeping them in my reach depended entirely upon my perfecting my enclosures to such a degree that I might be sure of keeping them together; which by this method, indeed, I so effectually secured, that when these little stakes began to grow, I had planted them so very thick that I was forced to pull some of them up again.
Hieruit ziet men, dat ik niet ledig was, en geene moeite spaarde voor hetgeen tot mijn onderhoud noodig was, want ik begreep, dat het aanfokken van tamme dieren, voor mij een levend magazijn van vleesch, melk, boter en kaas zou zijn, al moest ik hier ook nog veertig jaren leven. Dit hing echter geheel af van de sterkte der omheining, die ik nu ook zoo sterk had gemaakt, dat ik van de opgroeijende staken naderhand eenigen moest rooijen.