that Robinson did was to climb a hill, that he might
see what sort of country he was in, and find out if there were any
other people in it. But when he got to the top, he saw to his sorrow
that he was on an island, with no other land in sight except some
rocks, and two smaller islands far over the sea. There were no signs
of any people, and he saw nothing living except great numbers of
birds, one of which he shot. But it was not fit to eat, being some
kind of hawk.

After this, with the chests and boards that he had brought on shore,
he made a kind of hut to sleep in that night, and he lay there on the
sand very comfortably.

Day by day now for some time Robinson swam out to the ship, and made
fresh rafts, loading them with many stores, powder and shot, and lead
for bullets, seven muskets, a great barrel of bread, three casks of
rum, a quantity of flour, some grain, a box of sugar, sails and ropes
and twine, bags of nails, and many hatchets. With one of the sails he
made himself a good tent, in which he put everything that could be
spoiled by rain or sun. Around it he piled all the casks and other
heavy things, so that no wild beast could very easily get at him.

In about a fortnight the weather changed; it blew very hard one
night, and in the morning the ship had broken up, and was no more to
be seen. But that did not so much matter, for Robinson had got out of
her nearly everything that he could use.

Now Robinson thought it time to find some better place for his tent.
The land where it then stood was low and near the sea, and the only
water he could get to drink tasted rather salt. Looking about, he
found a little plain, about a hundred yards across, on the side of a
hill, and at the end of the plain was a great rock partly hollowed
out, but not so as quite to make a cave. Here he pitched his tent,
close to the hollow place in the rock. Round in front of the tent he
drove two rows of strong stakes, about eighteen inches apart,
sharpened at top; and he made this fence so strong that when it was
finished he was sure that nothing could get at him, for he left no
door, but climbed in and out by a ladder, which he always hauled up
after him.

Before closing up the end, Robinson hauled inside this fence all his
stores, his food and his guns, his powder and shot, and he rigged
inside a double tent, so better to keep off the hot sun and the rain.

Then he began to dig into the rock, which was not very hard, and soon