The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-16

mile inland to survey the country. The moment he was hign enough to gain a view he was overcome again with ter TOT and despair. for he saw that he was on an Island with no other land in st ,ssssS sss m stSs req gsy s,ay sslsts about nine miles to the vest.
 Gloomy hfd Hopeless he returned to the beach,. On the way he shot a bird. It must have been the first gunshot fired there since the creation of the world The explosion started an in- numerable number of birds all over the island, and Robinson Crusoe was com fortsd by the knowledge that he was. at least. ssurs of food .ssss A That night he haflcaded himself with the chests and boards from the raft. The next day he determined to get ail he could from the ship. since the first storm would break her up. He swan to 1t again as before and made a sec ond raft, not so unwleidy or heavy as the first. He loaded 1t with spikes and nails. a great screwJack,, dozen hatch cts, a grindstone, iron crowbars, eight guns, two barrels of musket bullets and some more powder. He completed the ladflg swith ali the clothes he could find, astopsail. hammock and some bedding. and brought all safely ashore.
 With the sail he made tent into which he put all the articles that might spoil from sun or rain. Although he had great store now, he would not rest, but made trip after trip to the ship, till he had all the ropes and cord age all the sails, though he was fore ed to. cut them into pieces that he might move them. more gunpowder and tools and a great hogshead of bread. three large barrels of rum, a box of sugar and a barrel of fine fiour
 He learned now what enormous la- bors a single human being can accomp- fish when he Is fighting for existence. Indeed. he believed verify that in time he could bring away the twelfth trip. when he carried of some forty pounds in coin, not without sad smile at the vanity of money in a desert island, the wind rose and blew hard all day and the next might. When daylight came the ship was gone.
 All this time he was in deadly fear of savages. He gave himself little time for rest, but set to work at once to make a little fortified home.
 He found steep hill with. tiny plain in front of it. Here he pitched his tent. Then he drew a semi-circle of about twenty yards in front of the place and drove in two rows of great stakes about i've and one half feet long sharpened at the top. This work cost him incredible labor, but at last he had fence so strong that neither man or beast possibly could get over it He made no door. but entered and left his palisade with a ladder that he drew after him.
 Over his small tent he pitched a larger one and covered all with a tar paulin for protection against the vio- lent rains which he knew would come with the rainy season. As soon as he felt secure, he began to, burrow Into the hillside behind the tent till he had q cave fin which he could store his powder which had given him deep con- cern till then, lest 1t be exploded by lightning. To make it quite safe he d. vided it into small parcels till he had 1t stored away in almost a hundred separate packages.
 As soon as he had no need to work so desperately any more dismal thoughts over came him again. He cried many times to think that he was doom ed to end his life in a desolate place withou the sight of another human be- ing. and he expostulated with Provi- dence for rendering it's creatures so absolutely miserable. But then. for the first time in his life. he began to have a glimmering of gratitude to the Creator. for 1t came to him that though he was desoiate he had been saved from the death that found all his ship mates. When he reflected further he was mortified at the fate that would have been his had the ship not come so near shore.
 Ills reason began to master his de- spondency. He learned tbat man can not be so miserable that he cannot find something to comfort him and make him grateful that he is not stin more wretched.
 With fresh courage he turned to work. His first task was to keep a reckoning of days. On a large post he cut the inscription. ''I came on sllore here on the 30th of December. 1ahs,"