brought back tried our strength. My wife soon made a fire to boil some of the fruit that Ernest had found, which we ate with milk form the cow and the goat, and then went up to The Nest for the night.
CHAPTER VIII.
It took the whole of the next day to make a sledge, to which we tied the ass, and drove to Tent House. On our sledge we put such of the casks which held food, and took them back to The Nest. In the course of the same week, Fritz and I went once more to the wreck, and this time we brought off chests of clothes, pigs of lead, cart wheels, sacks of maize, oats, peas, and wheat, and a small mill that had been used by the cook on board to grind the peas with which he made soup for the crew. When we had put these on board the raft, there was not an inch of room to spare. With a strong bar we broke down some of the doors, and took such parts of the ship as we thought would aid us to build our house, which as yet was far less safe than I could wish. These we bound with cords, and made them float back at the stern of the raft.
