not tell for certain. We remembered the day of the week
well enough, and it was Tuesday; but more than this we could not get
into our heads; and so it seemed that there was nothing for us but to
sink all days into the one long day of the Arctic summer, and nevermore
know whether it was Sunday, or Monday, or Friday, or what day it was of
any month; and if it should be Heaven's will that we should live on upon
the island until the New Year came round, and still other years should
come and go, we should never know New Year's day.

"But, as I was saying, about making a Sunday for ourselves. I did
everything I could to refresh my memory about it. I counted up the
number of times we had slept, and the number of times we had worked, and
recalled the day when I first walked around the island; and I tried my
best to connect all those events together in such a way as to prove how
often the sun had passed behind the cliffs, and how often it had shone
upon us; and thus I made out that the very day I am telling you about
proved to be Sunday,--at least I so convinced the Dean, and he was
satisfied. And that's the way we made a Sunday for ourselves.

"So we resolved to do no work that day; and this was well, for we were
very weary and needed rest.

"I need not tell you that we passed the time in talking over our plans
for the future, and in discussing the prospects ahead of us, and
arranging what we should do. You see we had settled about Sunday, so
that was off our minds; and after recalling many things which had
happened to us, and things which had been done on the _Blackbird_, we
finally concluded that we had found out the day of the month, and so we
called the day 'Sunday, the second of July,' and this we marked, as I
will show you, thus: On the top of a large flat rock near by I placed a
small white stone, and this we called our 'Sunday stone'; and then, in a
row with this stone, we placed six other stones, which we called by the
other days of the week. Then I moved the white stone out of line a
little, which was to show that Sunday had passed, and afterwards, when
the next day had gone, we did the same with the Monday stone, and so on
until the stones were all on a line again, when we knew that it was once
more Sunday. Of course we knew when the day was gone, by the sun being
around on the north side of the island, throwing the shadow of the
cliffs upon us.

"For noting the days of the month we made a similar arrangement to t