d of the Tryal, with their chests of tools, were on shore when the
ship drove out to sea; the smith, too, was on shore, and had with
him his forge and some tools, but unhappily his bellows had not
been brought from on board, so that he was incapable of working,
and without his assistance they could not hope to proceed with their
design; their first attention, therefore, was to make him a pair of
bellows, but in this they were for some time puzzled, by their want of
leather; however, as they had hides in sufficient plenty, and they had
found a hogshead of lime, which the Indians or Spaniards had prepared
for their own use, they tanned some hides with this lime; and though
we may suppose the workmanship to be but indifferent, yet the leather
they thus made served tolerably well, and the bellows (to which a
gun-barrel served for a pipe) had no other inconvenience than that of
being somewhat strong-scented from the imperfection of the tanner's
work.

Whilst the smith was preparing the necessary iron work, others were
employed in cutting down trees, and sawing them into plank, and this
being the most laborious task, the commodore himself wrought at it
for the encouragement of his people. As there were neither blocks
nor cordage sufficient for tackles to hale the bark on shore, it
was proposed to get her up on rollers; and for these the body of the
cocoa-nut tree was extremely useful, for its smoothness and circular
turn prevented much labour, and fitted it for the purpose with very
little workmanship; many of these trees were therefore felled, and the
ends of them properly opened for the reception of hand-spikes; and
in the mean time a dry dock was dug for the bark, and ways laid from
thence quite into the sea to facilitate the bringing her up. Besides
those who were thus occupied in preparing measures for the future
enlargement of the bark, a party was constantly ordered for the
killing and preparing of provisions for the rest: And though in these
various employments, some of which demanded considerable dexterity,
it might have been expected there would have been great confusion and
delay, yet good order being once established, and all hands engaged,
their preparations advanced apace. Indeed, the common men, I presume,
were not the less tractable for their want of spirituous liquors;
for, there being neither wine nor brandy on shore, the juice of
the cocoa-nut was their constant drink, and this, though extremely
pleasant,