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they hadthere, much less of the cave at that place, which they kept, incase of necessity, as a safe retreat; and thither they carried alsothe two barrels of powder which I had sent them at my coming away.They resolved, however, not to change their habitation; yet, as Ihad carefully covered it first with a wall or fortification, andthen with a grove of trees, and as they were now fully convincedtheir safety consisted entirely in their being concealed, they setto work to cover and conceal the place yet more effectually thanbefore. For this purpose, as I planted trees, or rather thrust instakes, which in time all grew up to be trees, for some gooddistance before the entrance into my apartments, they went on inthe same manner, and filled up the rest of that whole space ofground from the trees I had set quite down to the side of thecreek, where I landed my floats, and even into the very ooze wherethe tide flowed, not so much as leaving any place to land, or anysign that there had been any landing thereabouts: th
s no comparison.They had, indeed, both of them as much ground laid out for corn asthey wanted, and the reason was, because, according to my rule,nature dictated that it was to no purpose to sow more corn thanthey wanted; but the difference of the cultivation, of theplanting, of the fences, and indeed, of everything else, was easyto be seen at first view.
Upon inquiry we found it was a French merchant ship of three-hundred tons, home-bound from Quebec. The master gave us a longaccount of the distress of his ship; how the fire began in thesteerage by the negligence of the steersman, which, on his cryingout for help, was, as everybody thought, entirely put out; but theysoon found that some sparks of the first fire had got into somepart of the ship so difficult to come at that they could noteffectually quench it; and afterwards getting in between thetimbers, and within the ceiling of the ship, it proceeded into thehold, and mastered all the skill and all the application they wereable to exert.
