nk my very soul within me a second time.

After the third shock was over, and I felt no more for some time, I began
to take courage; and yet I had not heart enough to go over my wall again,
for fear of being buried alive, but sat still upon the ground greatly
cast down and disconsolate, not knowing what to do. All this while I had
not the least serious religious thought; nothing but the common "Lord
have mercy upon me!" and when it was over that went away too.

While I sat thus, I found the air overcast and grow cloudy, as if it
would rain. Soon after that the wind arose by little and little, so that
in less than half-an-hour it blew a most dreadful hurricane; the sea was
all on a sudden covered over with foam and froth; the shore was covered
with the breach of the water, the trees were torn up by the roots, and a
terrible storm it was. This held about three hours, and then began to
abate; and in two hours more it was quite calm, and began to rain very
hard. All this while I sat upon the ground very much terrified and
dejected; when on a sudden it came into my thoughts, that these winds and
rain being the consequences of the earthquake, the earthquake itself was
spent and over, and I might venture into my cave again. With this
thought my spirits began to revive; and the rain also helping to persuade
me, I went in and sat down in my tent. But the rain was so violent that
my tent was ready to be beaten down with it; and I was forced to go into
my cave, though very much afraid and uneasy, for fear it should fall on
my head. This violent rain forced me to a new work--viz. to cut a hole
through my new fortification, like a sink, to let the water go out, which
would else have flooded my cave. After I had been in my cave for some
time, and found still no more shocks of the earthquake follow, I began to
be more composed. And now, to support my spirits, which indeed wanted it
very much, I went to my little store, and took a small sup of rum; which,
however, I did then and always very sparingly, knowing I could have no
more when that was gone. It continued raining all that night and great
part of the next day, so that I could not stir abroad; but my mind being
more composed, I began to think of what I had best do; concluding that if
the island was subject to these earthquakes, there would be no living for
me in a cave, but I must consider of building a little hut in an open
place which I might surround with a wall, as I