so form a mound over the skeleton. Jack, therefore, with his axe,
cut down the other door-post, which, when it was done, brought the whole
hut in ruins to the ground, and thus formed a grave to the bones of the
poor recluse and his dog. Then we left the spot, having brought away
the iron pot, the pistol, and the old axe, as they might be of much use
to us hereafter.

During the rest of this day we pursued our journey, and examined the
other end of the large valley, which we found to be so much alike to the
parts already described that I shall not recount the particulars of what
we saw in this place. I may, however, remark that we did not quite
recover our former cheerful spirits until we arrived at our bower, which
we did late in the evening, and found everything just in the same
condition as we had left it three days before.

CHAPTER TWELVE.

SOMETHING WRONG WITH THE TANK--JACK'S WISDOM AND PETERKIN'S
IMPERTINENCE--WONDERFUL BEHAVIOUR OF A CRAB--GOOD WISHES FOR THOSE WHO
DWELL FAR FROM THE SEA--JACK COMMENCES TO BUILD A LITTLE BOAT.

Rest is sweet, as well for the body as for the mind. During my long
experience, amid the vicissitudes of a chequered life, I have found that
periods of profound rest at certain intervals, in addition to the
ordinary hours of repose, are necessary to the well-being of man. And
the nature, as well as the period, of this rest varies according to the
different temperaments of individuals and the peculiar circumstances in
which they may chance to be placed. To those who work with their minds,
bodily labour is rest; to those who labour with the body, deep sleep is
rest; to the downcast, the weary, and the sorrowful, joy and peace are
rest. Nay, further, I think that to the gay, the frivolous, the
reckless, when sated with pleasures that cannot last, even sorrow proves
to be rest of a kind, although, perchance, it were better that I should
call it relief than rest. There is, indeed, but one class of men to
whom rest is denied--there is no rest to the wicked. At this I do but
hint, however, as I treat not of that rest which is spiritual, but more
particularly of that which applies to the mind and to the body.

Of this rest we stood much in need on our return home, and we found it
exceedingly sweet when we indulged in it after completing the journey
just related. It had not, indeed, been a very long journey;
nevertheless, we had pursued it so diligently that our frames were not a