Chapter Six
Learn to Live Alone
第六章
学会独自生活
A
1、First, I needed a comfortable bed, a table and a chair.
2、I was lucky enough to have tools from the ship.
3、At first, I was not good at using them, but within a month I became quite clever with them.
4、I cut down trees to get wood or used the wood from the shipwreck.
5、It was a long and hard work, but it made my life meaningful.
6、Besides, there was no hurry, I had all the time in the world.
B
1、Everyday I went out to hunt and fish.
2、I caught fish and turtles to eat.
3、I always had two guns with me when I went out.
4、I killed beasts and birds to get meat.
5、I dried some of the meat and fish and put them in salt so that I could eat them later.
6、I cooked some sea water in a pot and when the water was gone as vapour, salt was left on the bottom of the pot.
C
1、For the first two months, I did not have light at night.
2、So I had to go to bed very early.
3、That was very boring.
4、Later I put some animal fat in a small bowl to get a lamp.
5、Then I could read the books I had gotten from the ship.
6、Soon I made candles from animal fat.
7、Fortunately I had pens, paper and ink from the ship so I could write down what I did.
D
1、Once I caught a she-goat and her baby goat.
2、I did not kill them but kept them inside my fence.
3、Soon I had milk for the first time since I left Brazil.
4、Later, I built a sheep pen and kept more goats in it.
5、In this way， I had plenty of milk and meat .
6、I made clothes and beddings from goat skin and fur.
E
1、I had a bag of corn from the ship.
2、I did not eat all of it but planted some as seeds in a field.
3、I had to make a fence around my field so that animals could not get in to eat all my crops.
4、Several months later I harvested a few bags of corn.
5、I tried to make bread from the corn, but it was not an easy job.
6、Several days after I had harvested the corn, I cooked the first loaf of bread on the island.
F
1、One day I went out to visit the other parts of the island.
2、I found some wild fruit trees and I collected two bags of fruit.
3、I could not eat them all, so I put some in the sun to dry that I could eat them later.
4、I also made some fruit jam, and so for the first time I had sweetened food.
G
1、Sometimes I found bird eggs in bushes or in trees.
2、One day it occured to me that I should hatch some eggs.
3、I collected some hen's eggs and kept them in a warm place.
4、Soon, most of the eggs hatched and I had some chicks. I kept them in the yard.
5、I cut off some of their feathers so that they could not fly out of the yard.
6、Within a year I was able to enjoy eggs and chicken without having to hunt.
