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.
Ahhoz pedig, hogy szabadon hozzájuk férhessek, nem volt másra szükség, mint olyan biztonságossá alakítani a karámjukat, hogy esélyük se legyen elhagyniuk azt. Ezt aztán az említett módszerrel olyannyira sikerült elérnem, hogy az elburjánzott sövénykerítést sűrűsége miatt kénytelen voltam még ritkítani is.