Seagrave and Juno would be, for the greatest part of it, left at
the house, they were to employ themselves in clearing the garden of
weeds, and making preparation for fencing it in.
As soon as this important work had been completed, the boat would
return to the bay with a load of prickly pears for the garden fence,
and then they were to direct their attention to the stores which had
been saved from the wreck, and were lying in the cove where they had
first landed. When they had examined them, and brought round what were
required, and secured them in the storehouse, they would then have a
regular survey of the island by land and by water. But man proposes and
God disposes, as will be shown by the interruption of their intended
projects which we shall have to narrate in the ensuing chapter.
Chapter XLIII
As usual, Ready was the first up on the following morning, and having
greeted Juno, who followed him out of the house, he set off on his
accustomed rounds, to examine into the stock and their other
possessions. He was standing in the garden at the point. First he
thought that it would be necessary to get ready some sticks for the
peas, which were now seven or eight inches out of the ground; he had
proceeded a little farther, to where the calivances, or French haricot
beans, had been sown, and had decided upon the propriety of hoeing up
the earth round them, as they were a very valuable article of food,
that would keep, and afford many a good dish during the rainy or winter
season.
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