I continued this work every day to the 15th of June, except the time necessary to get food, which I always appointed, during this part of my employment, to be when the tide was up, that I might be ready when it was ebbed out; and by this time I had got timber and plank and ironwork enough to have built a good boat, if I had known how; and also I got, at several times and in several pieces, near one hundredweight of the sheet lead.
Proseguí sin tregua con esta tarea hasta el día 15 de junio, con la excepción del tiempo que dedicaba a buscar alimento, que era, como he dicho, cuando subía la marea, a fin de haber terminado para cuando bajara. Para esta fecha había reunido suficientes maderas, tablones y hierros para construir un buen bote, si hubiera sabido cómo.