til the weather became colder.

"One thing which gave us great satisfaction was the immense quantity of
the dead moss which was in this bed,--so much, indeed, that, no matter
how long we should live there, we could never burn up the hundredth part
of it. At first there had not appeared to be much of it, but it
developed more and more, like a coal mine, as we dug farther and farther
into it.

"Our fireplace was therefore, as you see, a great success; but we were,
after a few days, most unexpectedly troubled with it. Thus far the wind
had been blowing only in one direction; but afterwards it shifted to the
opposite quarter, driving the smoke all down into the hut, and
smothering us out. Neither of us being a skilful mason, we could not
imagine what was the matter; but finally it occurred to us, after much
useless labor had been spent in tearing part of it down and building it
up again, that it was too low, being just on a level with the top of the
hut; so we ran it up as much higher as we could lift the stones, which
was about four feet, and after that we had no more trouble with it.

"Having succeeded so well with our arrangements towards keeping up a
fire, we next fitted up a bed, as the storms now began to trouble us,
and we found, when we were driven away from the grass, and were obliged
to sleep inside of the hut, that it was a very hard place to sleep,
being nothing but rough stones, which made us very sore, and made our
bones ache.

"The first thing we did now was to build a wall about as high as our
knees right across the middle of the hut, from side to side; then,
across the space thus enclosed in the back part of the hut, we built up
another wall about three feet high,--thus, you see, making two divisions
of it.

"One of these divisions we used as a sort of store-room or closet,
levelling the bottom of it with flat stone, of which we had no
difficulty in getting all we wanted. We also covered the front part of
the hut with stones of the same description, thus making quite a smooth
floor. It was not large enough, as you will see, to give us much trouble
in keeping it clean. Of the second division, in the back part, we made
our bed, by first filling it up with moss, then covering the moss over
with dry grass.

"Having given up all hope of a ship coming after us, we now gave up
watching for one; and we went to sleep together on our new bed, lying on
the dry grass, and, as before, covering ourselves over with