elen found
that she never turned in bed now. She slept as she had never slept
before. This mattress was made with plantain-leaves sewed together with
the thread furnished by the tree itself, and doubled at the edges.

2. A long shallow net four feet deep--cocoa-fiber.

3. A great quantity of stout grass rope, and light but close matting for
the roof, and some cocoanut matting for the ground and to go under the
mattress. But Hazel, instructed by her, had learned to plait--rather
clumsily--and he had a hand in the matting.

Hazel in the meantime heightened his own mud banks in the center, and set
up brick fireplaces with hearth and chimney; one on each side; and now
did all the cooking; for he found the smoke from wood made Miss Rolleston
cough. He also made a number of pigeon-holes in his mud walls and lined
them with clay. One of these he dried with fire, and made a pottery door
to it, and there kept the lucifer-box. He made a vast number of bricks,
but did nothing with them. After several failures he made two large pots,
and two great pans, that would all four bear fire under them, and in the
pans he boiled sea-water till it all evaporated and left him a sediment
of salt. This was a great addition to their food, and he managed also to
put by a little. But it was a slow process.

He made a huge pair of bellows, with a little assistance from Miss
Rolleston; the spout was a sago-stick, with the pith driven out, and the
substitute for leather was the skin of a huge eel he found stranded at
the east point.

Having got his bellows and fixed them to a post he drove into the ground,
he took for his anvil a huge flint stone, and a smaller one for hammer;
heated his old iron to a white heat, and hammered it with a world of
trouble into straight lengths; and at last with a portion of it produced
a long saw without teeth, but one side sharper than the other. This, by
repeated experiments of heating and immersing in water, he at last
annealed; and when he wanted to saw he blew his embers to a white heat
(he kept the fire alive now night and day); heated his original saw
red-hot, and soon sawed through the oleaginous woods of that island. If
he wanted to cut down a tree in the jungle, he put the bellows and a pot
of embers on his cart with other fuel, and came and lighted the fire
under the tree and soon had it down. He made his pickax in half an hour,
but with his eyes rather than his hands. He found a young tree growing on
th