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.
Belülről elreteszelhető ajtót alkottam, mely a barlangom külső bejáratát zárta el, és a létrákat is magamhoz vettem éjszakára a barlangba. Így, ha valami módon fel is jutott volna a belső falra, a tetőmön, amely hosszú cölöpökre vastagon fektetett ágakból és rizsszalmából állt, nem juthatott át anélkül, hogy meg ne halljam.