But when we got them to the outside of our wall, or fortification, we were at a worse loss than before, for it was impossible to get them over, and I was resolved not to break it down; so I set to work again, and Friday and I, in about two hours’ time, made a very handsome tent, covered with old sails, and above that with boughs of trees, being in the space without our outward fence and between that and the grove of young wood which I had planted; and here we made them two beds of such things as I had—viz. of good rice-straw, with blankets laid upon it to lie on, and another to cover them, on each bed.
Amikor azonban elértünk az erődítményünk külső falához, az eddigieknél is komolyabb problémával néztünk szembe, mert a falon nem tudtuk őket átvinni, a falat megbontani pedig nem voltam hajlandó. Újra munkához láttam, és két óra múlva Péntek segítségével egész csinos kis vitorlavásznakkal és faágakkal takart sátrat emeltünk a fal és az általam ültetett erdő közötti területen.