My master could well have laid claim to one of these cloth houses;
but because of the charges which had been made against him by Captain
Kendall and Captain Martin, the sting of which yet remained, he
chose to live by himself. Thus it was that he and I threw up the
roof of branches concerning which I have spoken; but it was only
to shelter us until better could be built.
BUILDING A HOUSE OF LOGS
While the others were hunting here and there for the gold which it
had been said could be picked up in Virginia as one gathers acorns
in the old world, Captain Smith set about making a house of logs
such as would protect him from the storms of winter as well as from
the summer sun.
This he did by laying four logs on the ground in the form of a
square, and so cutting notches in the ends of each that when it was
placed on the top of another, and at right angles with it, the hewn
portions would interlock, one with the other, holding all firmly
in place. On top of these, other huge tree trunks were laid with
the same notching of the ends.
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