ncooked; but now
let us first see what else they have thrown out of the boat."

"Why, they have put on shore three of the little casks of water," said
I; "they took them all on board."

"They have so, I suppose, because the boat was too heavy, and they would
not part with the liquor. Foolish men, they will now not have more than
six days' water, and will suffer dreadfully."

We then looked round the rocks and found that they had left the iron
kettle, three breakers, five oars, and a harpoon and staffs; a
gang-board, a whale-line of 200 fathoms, an old saw, a bag of
broad-headed nails, and two large pieces of sheet-iron.

"That saw may be very useful to us," said Mrs Reichardt, "especially as
you have files in your chests. Indeed, if we want them, we may convert
one half of the saw into knives."

"Into knives! How?"

"I will show you; and these pieces of sheet-iron I could use again. You
see the sheet-iron was put on to repair any hole which might be made in
the boat, and they have thrown it out, as well as the hammer and nails.
I wonder at John Gough permitting it."

"I heard them quarrelling with him as I came out yesterday to fetch you
down; they would not mind what he said."

"No, or we should not have been left here," replied she; "John Gough was
too good a man to have allowed it, if he could have prevented it. That
sheet-iron will be very useful. Do you know what for? To broil fish
on, or anything else. We must turn up the corners with the hammer. But
now we must lose no more time, but fish all day long, and not think of
eating till supper-time."

Accordingly we threw out our lines, and the fish taking the bait freely,
we soon hauled in more than a dozen large fish, which I put into the
bathing-pool.

"What use can we make of that long line which they have left?"

"A good many; but the best use we can make of it, is to turn it into
fishing-lines, when we require new ones."

"But how can we do that, it is so thick and heavy?"

"Yes, but I will show you how to unlay it, and then make it up again.
Recollect, Frank, that I have been the wife of a Missionary, and have
followed my husband wherever he went; sometimes we have been well off,
sometimes as badly off as you and I are now--for a Missionary has to go
through great dangers, and great hardships, as you would acknowledge if
you ever heard my life, or rather that of my husband."

"Won't you tell it to me?"

"Yes, perhaps I will, some day