May 15. Took with me two hatchets on purpose to cut off some lead from the roll, but all in vain, for it lay too low under water.
May 16. I omitted going to the wreck this day, for employing myself in looking for pigeons, I outstaid my time.
May 17. I perceived several pieces of the wreck driven ashore, which I found belonged to the head of the ship.
May 24. To this day I worked on the wreck, and with great difficulty loosened some things so much with the crow, that at the first flowing tide several casks floated out, and many of the seamen's chests, yet that day nothing came to land but pieces of timber, and a hogshead which had some Brazil pork in it. I continued working to the 15th of June; (except necessary times for food and rest) and had I known how to have built a boat, I had timber and planks enough; I had also near 100 weight of sheet lead.
June 16. As I was wandering towards the sea-side, I found a large tortoise or turtle, being the first I had seen on the island, though, as I afterwards found, there were many on the other side of it.
June 17. This day I spent in cooking it, found in her threescore eggs, and her flesh the most savoury and pleasant I ever tasted in my life.
June 18. I staid within this day, there being a continual rain; and it was somewhat more chilly and cold than usual.
June 19. Exceedingly bad, being taken with a trembling and shivering.
June 20. Awake all night, my head racked with pain and feverish.
June 21. Sick unto death, and terrified with the dismal apprehensions of my condition. Prayed to God more frequently, but very confusedly.