To the 14th of July, I walked about with my gun, little and little at a time, having been reduced to the greatest extremity of weakness.  The applications and experiments I used were perfectly new:  neither could I recommend them to any one’s practice.  For though it carried off the fit, it very much weakened me, and I had frequently convulsions in my nerves and limbs for some time.  From this I learned, that going abroad in rainy weather, especially when it was attended with storms and hurricanes of wind, was most pernicious to health.  I had now been about ten months in the island; and as I never had seen any of the human kind, I therefore accounted myself as sole monarch; and as I grew better, having secured my habitation to my mind, I resolved to make a tour round my kingdom, in order to make new discoveries.

The 15th of July, I began my journey; I first went to the creek, where I had brought my rafts on shore; and travelling farther, found the tide went no higher than two miles up, where there was a little brook of running water, on the banks of which were many pleasant savannahs or meadows, plain, smooth, and covered with grass.  On the rising parts, where I supposed the water did not reach, I perceived a great deal of tobacco growing to a very strong stalk.  Several other plants I likewise found, the virtues of which I did not understand.  I searched a long time for the Cassava root, which I knew the Indians in that climate made their bread of, but all in vain.  There were several plants of aloes, though at that time I knew not what they were; likewise I saw several sugar canes, but imperfect for want of cultivation.  With these few discoveries, I came back that night, and slept contentedly in my little castle.

The next day, being the 16th, going the same way, but farther then the day before, I found the country more adorned with woods and trees.  Here I perceived different fruits in great abundance.  Melons in plenty lay on the ground, and clusters of grapes, ripe and very rich, spread over the trees.  You may imagine I was glad of this discovery, yet ate very sparingly, lest I should throw myself into a flux or fever.  The grapes I found of excellent use; for when I had dried them in the sun, which preserved them as dried raisins are kept, they proved very wholesome and nourishing, and served me in those seasons when no grapes were to be had.

The night drawing on apace, I ascended up a tree, and slept very comfortably, though it was the first time I had lain out of my habitation.  And when the morning came, I proceeded with great pleasure on my way, travelling about four miles, as I imagined, by the length of the valley, directing my course northward, there being a ridge of hills on the south and north side of me.  At the end of this valley, I came to an opening, where the country seemed to descend to the west; there I found a little spring of fresh water, proceeding out of the side of the hill, with