Fritz and I return to the Calabash Wood--Fritz shoots a ruffed grouse--We come across waxberry bushes--Sociable grosbeaks--Fritz captures a parrot--A lecture on ants--Caoutchouc trees--The sago-palm and the edible worms--Return with sugar-canes to Falconhurst--Candle-making--How to make butter without a churn--Plant trees and adorn Tentholm--Last visit to the wreck--The first ducklings on the island--Falconhurst again--An excursion--We pitch our tent--Fritz and Jack ascend the cocoanut trees--Ernest brings us a delicacy--Loss of Grizzle--Jack and I go in pursuit--Giant bamboos--Encounter with buffaloes--The buffalo calf--Find a jackal's lair--Reach our camp--What happened in our absence--Fritz's pet--Sago manufacture--Meet with our sow and her family again--How Ernest tamed the eagle, 127 CHAPTER VIII. Prop our young trees--A lecture on grafting--A new idea broached--Why should we not build stairs within the trunk of our tree?--Jack finds one objection--I make a beehive, and we drive the bees from the tree--Stair-making--Additions to our family of domestic animals--The education of the "pets"--Shoemaking--We lead water from the stream to Falconhurst--A strange animal approaches--Our old ass and his companion--The onager captured--Provisioning our winter quarters--Capture of ruffed grouse--We discover flax--The rainy season, 151 CHAPTER IX. Spring again--We begin to hew a cave--Jack makes a discovery--We drive the foul air from the cavern--The mother and her boys join us--We explore the cave--Fit it up as our winter quarters--The herring-bank--We catch seals--Fishing on a grand scale--Isinglass and caviare--We visit our plantations--An expedition to establish a colony--The building of "Woodlands"--Jack and Fritz return to Falconhurst for provisions--Ernest and I explore--A "beast with a bill"--We build a canoe--Franz undertakes the education of Grumble--We continue our work at the cave--Carpet making--Thanksgiving-day--A startling salute--Athletics and shooting--Prize giving--Manufacture of birdlime--Fritz and Jack ride off for caoutchouc--Shoot a crane and badger--Find "Woodlands" turned upside down by monkeys--Discover ginseng, 168 CHAPTER X. Birdlime--A midnight raid--The massacre at Woodlands--Capture of Molucca pigeons--A pigeon-house--Fritz and I prepare a conjuring trick--Great success of our experiment--Lichen and nutmegs discovered--Jack's adventure--The loom manufactured--Winter stores prepared--The rainy season sets in--Interior of our house arranged--We study languages--The return of spring--A stranded whale--An account of coral--We go to work on the whale's carcass--Remarks on the habits of the whale, 199 CHAPTER XI.