As there was a door or entrance there into my cave, I made a formal framed door-case, and a door to it, of boards, and set it up in the passage, a little within the entrance; and, causing the door to open in the inside, I barred it up in the night, taking in my ladders, too; so that Friday could no way come at me in the inside of my innermost wall, without making so much noise in getting over that it must needs awaken me; for my first wall had now a complete roof over it of long poles, covering all my tent, and leaning up to the side of the hill; which was again laid across with smaller sticks, instead of laths, and then thatched over a great thickness with the rice-straw, which was strong, like reeds; and at the hole or place which was left to go in or out by the ladder I had placed a kind of trap-door, which, if it had been attempted on the outside, would not have opened at all, but would have fallen down and made a great noise—as to weapons, I took them all into my side every night.
Estaba apoyado en la roca, atravesado por unas ramas entrelazadas, que hacían las veces de listones, y recubierto de una gruesa capa de paja de arroz, que era tan fuerte como las cañas. En la apertura o hueco que había dejado para entrar o salir con la escalera, coloqué una especie de puerta-trampa, que, en caso de un ataque del exterior, no se habría abierto sino que habría caído con gran estrépito.