5 学会独自生活

Chapter 5 Learning to live alone

I still needed a lot of things. 'Well, ' I said, 'I'm going to have to make them. '

So, every day, I worked. First of all, I wanted to make my cave bigger.

I carried out stone from the cave, and after many day's hard work, I had a large cave in the side of the hill. Then I needed a table and a chair, and that was my next job.

I had to work on them for a long time. I also wanted to make places to put all my food, and all my tools and guns.

But every time I wanted a piece of wood, I had to cut down a tree. It was long, slow, difficult work, and during the next months I learnt to be very clever with my tools.

There was no hurry. I had all the time in the world. I also went out every day, and I always had my gun with me.

Sometimes I killed a wild animal, and then I had meat to eat. But when it got dark, I had to go to bed because I had no light.

I couldn't read or write because I couldn't see. For a long time, I didn't know what to do.

But in the end, I learnt how to use the fat of dead animals to make a light. The weather on my island was usually very hot, and there were often storms and heavy rain.