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The
field
was
prepared
,
then
surrounded
with
a
strong
palisade
,
high
and
pointed
,
which
quadrupeds
would
have
found
difficulty
in
leaping
.
As
to
birds
,
some
scarecrows
,
due
to
Pencroft
's
ingenious
brain
,
were
enough
to
frighten
them
.
The
seven
hundred
and
fifty
grains
deposited
in
very
regular
furrows
were
then
left
for
nature
to
do
the
rest
.
On
the
21st
of
November
,
Cyrus
Harding
began
to
plan
the
canal
which
was
to
close
the
plateau
on
the
west
,
from
the
south
angle
of
Lake
Grant
to
the
angle
of
the
Mercy
.
There
was
there
two
or
three
feet
of
vegetable
earth
,
and
below
that
granite
.
It
was
therefore
necessary
to
manufacture
some
more
nitro-glycerine
,
and
the
nitro-glycerine
did
its
accustomed
work
.
In
less
than
a
fortnight
a
ditch
,
twelve
feet
wide
and
six
deep
,
was
dug
out
in
the
hard
ground
of
the
plateau
.
A
new
trench
was
made
by
the
same
means
in
the
rocky
border
of
the
lake
,
forming
a
small
stream
,
to
which
they
gave
the
name
of
Creek
Glycerine
,
and
which
was
thus
an
affluent
of
the
Mercy
.
As
the
engineer
had
predicted
,
the
level
of
the
lake
was
lowered
,
though
very
slightly
.
To
complete
the
enclosure
the
bed
of
the
stream
on
the
beach
was
considerably
enlarged
,
and
the
sand
supported
by
means
of
stakes
.
By
the
end
of
the
first
fortnight
of
December
these
works
were
finished
,
and
Prospect
Heights
--
that
is
to
say
,
a
sort
of
irregular
pentagon
,
having
a
perimeter
of
nearly
four
miles
,
surrounded
by
a
liquid
belt
--
was
completely
protected
from
depredators
of
every
description
.
During
the
month
of
December
,
the
heat
was
very
great
.
In
spite
of
it
,
however
,
the
settlers
continued
their
work
,
and
as
they
were
anxious
to
possess
a
poultry-yard
they
forthwith
commenced
it
.
It
is
useless
to
say
that
since
the
enclosing
of
the
plateau
had
been
completed
,
Master
Jup
had
been
set
at
liberty
.
He
did
not
leave
his
masters
,
and
evinced
no
wish
to
escape
.
He
was
a
gentle
animal
,
though
very
powerful
and
wonderfully
active
.
He
was
already
taught
to
make
himself
useful
by
drawing
loads
of
wood
and
carting
away
the
stones
which
were
extracted
from
the
bed
of
Creek
Glycerine
.
The
poultry-yard
occupied
an
area
of
two
hundred
square
yards
,
on
the
southeastern
bank
of
the
lake
.
It
was
surrounded
by
a
palisade
,
and
in
it
were
constructed
various
shelters
for
the
birds
which
were
to
populate
it
.
These
were
simply
built
of
branches
and
divided
into
compartments
,
made
ready
for
the
expected
guests
.
The
first
were
the
two
tinamous
,
which
were
not
long
in
having
a
number
of
young
ones
;
they
had
for
companions
half
a
dozen
ducks
,
accustomed
to
the
borders
of
the
lake
.
Some
belonged
to
the
Chinese
species
,
of
which
the
wings
open
like
a
fan
,
and
which
by
the
brilliancy
of
their
plumage
rival
the
golden
pheasants
.
A
few
days
afterwards
,
Herbert
snared
a
couple
of
gallinaceae
,
with
spreading
tails
composed
of
long
feathers
,
magnificent
alectors
,
which
soon
became
tame
.
As
to
pelicans
,
kingfishers
,
water-hens
,
they
came
of
themselves
to
the
shores
of
the
poultry-yard
,
and
this
little
community
,
after
some
disputes
,
cooing
,
screaming
,
clucking
,
ended
by
settling
down
peacefully
,
and
increased
in
encouraging
proportion
for
the
future
use
of
the
colony
.
Cyrus
Harding
,
wishing
to
complete
his
performance
,
established
a
pigeon
-
house
in
a
corner
of
the
poultry-yard
.
There
he
lodged
a
dozen
of
those
pigeons
which
frequented
the
rocks
of
the
plateau
.
These
birds
soon
became
accustomed
to
returning
every
evening
to
their
new
dwelling
,
and
showed
more
disposition
to
domesticate
themselves
than
their
congeners
,
the
wood
-
pigeons
.
