I found a good place for my house. It was on a hill, under a high rock, near fresh water. I made a strong fence of sticks in front of the rock. I had no door. I went in and out with a ladder, and at night I pulled the ladder in after me. Then I made a cave in the rock behind my tent. It was cool and dry, and I kept my food and gunpowder there. I had no calendar, so I made one. I put a big post in the ground near the beach. Every day I cut a small line in it with my knife. On the post I wrote: I came on shore here on the 30th of September, 1659.