Besides this, I kept myself, as I said, more retired than ever, and seldom went from my cell except upon my constant employment, to milk my she-goats, and manage my little flock in the wood, which, as it was quite on the other part of the island, was out of danger; for certain, it is that these savage people, who sometimes haunted this island, never came with any thoughts of finding anything here, and consequently never wandered off from the coast, and I doubt not but they might have been several times on shore after my apprehensions of them had made me cautious, as well as before.
Bovendien leefde ik stiller dan ooit, en verliet zelden mijne kluis dan voor mijne dagelijksche bezigheden, het melken mijner geiten en het nazien mijner kudde in het bosch, die als geheel aan de andere zijde van het eiland, buiten alle gevaar was; want het was zeker, dat de wilden, die somtijds het eiland aandeden, er nimmer iets dachten te vinden, en dus nooit het strand verlieten.