When this was done I stuck all the ground without my wall, for a great length every way, as full with stakes or sticks of the osier-like wood, which I found so apt to grow, as they could well stand; insomuch that I believe I might set in near twenty thousand of them, leaving a pretty large space between them and my wall, that I might have room to see an enemy, and they might have no shelter from the young trees, if they attempted to approach my outer wall.
Hecho esto, por la parte exterior de la muralla y a lo largo de una gran extensión de tierra, planté una infinidad de palos o estacas de un árbol parecido al sauce, que, según había comprobado, crecía muy rápidamente. Creo que planté cerca de veinte mil, dejando entre ellas y la muralla espacio suficiente para ver al enemigo sin que pudiese ocultarse entre ellas, si intentaba acercarse a mi muralla.