第六章 学会独自生活（上）

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.