I opened the chest, which contained only some sailors' dresses and some linen, both wetted with sea-water; but likely to be very useful as our own clothes decayed.

I found Fritz and Jack had been shooting ortolans; they had killed about fifty, but had consumed so much powder and shot, that I checked a prodigality so imprudent in our situation.

I taught them to make snares for the birds of the threads we drew from the karata leaves we had brought home.

My wife and her two younger sons busied themselves with these, while I, with my two elder boys, began to construct the sledge.

As we were working, we heard a great noise among the fowls, and Ernest, looking about, discovered the monkey seizing and hiding the eggs from the nests; he had collected a good store in a hole among the roots, which Ernest carried to his mother; and Knips was punished by being tied up, every morning, till the eggs were collected.
Our work was interrupted by dinner, composed of ortolans, milk, and cheese.