I began to occupy my house on the 4th of July, as soon as it was
boarded and roofed, for the
boards were carefully feather-edged and lapped, so that it was perfectly impervious to rain, but before boarding I laid the foundation of a chimney at one end, bringing two cartloads of stones up the hill from the pond in my arms.
However, I made me a table and a chair, as I observed above, in the first place; and this I did out of the short pieces of
boards that I brought on my raft from the ship.
However, as I had a great many very good clothes and linen in abundance, which I had ordered to be packed up in two great boxes, I had them shipped on
board, not as my goods, but as consigned to my real name in Virginia; and had the bills of loading signed by a captain in my pocket; and in these boxes was my plate and watches, and everything of value except my money, which I kept by itself in a private drawer in my chest, which could not be found, or opened, if found, with splitting the chest to pieces.
The rais was about to reply, but the general could not at that moment listen to him, as he had to hasten to receive the viceroy, who was now coming on
board the galley, and with him certain of his attendants and some of the people.
Only one amongst us, Conseil, seemed to protest by his indifference against the question which so interested us all, and seemed to be out of keeping with the general enthusiasm on
board.
Mann.' He finished the gin-and-water, and added, 'Oliver being now too old to remain here, the
board have determined to have him back into the house.
"When thwarted in their cravings for delicacies," Said he, "they would exclaim it was d-d hard they could not live as they pleased upon their own property, being on
board of their own ship, freighted with their own merchandise.
--Women may be as comfortable on
board, as in the best house in England.
I immediately found out the supercargo, and told him the story, adding that I foresaw there would be a mutiny in the ship; and entreated him to go immediately on
board and acquaint the captain of it.
"If the robber is on
board he will no doubt get off at Suez, so as to reach the Dutch or French colonies in Asia by some other route.
That is, subconsciously, he was aware that not alone his own food, but the food of all on
board found its source in the man and woman.
"It would take a clever man to find that out, as things are on
board now," Mr.
