CHAPTER 8

Linen—Shoes of seal-leather—Manufacture of pyroxyle—Gardening— Fishing—Turtle-eggs—Improvement of Master Jup—The corral— Musmon hunt—New animal and vegetable possessions—Recollections of their native land. The first week of January was devoted to the manufacture of the linen garments required by the colony. The needles found in the box were used by sturdy if not delicate fingers, and we may be sure that what was sewn was sewn firmly. There was no lack of thread, thanks to Cyrus Harding’s idea of re-e…