An account of the grotto--A room added to it--A view of that building--The author makes a little cart--Also a wet dock for his boat--Goes in quest of provision--A description of divers fruits and plants--He brings home a cartload of different sorts--Makes experiments on them--Loads his cart with others--A great disappointment--Makes good bread--Never sees the sun--The nature of the light
The author lays in a store against the dark weather--Hears voice--His thoughts thereon--Persuades himself it was a dream--Hears them again--Determines to see if any one lodged in the rock--Is satisfied there is nobody--Observations on what he saw--Finds a strong weed like whip-cord--Makes a dragnet--Lengthens it--Catches a monster--Its description--Makes oil of it
The author passes the summer pleasantly--Hears the voices in the winter--Ventures out--Sees a strange sight on the lake--His uneasiness at it--His dream--Soliloquy--Hears the voices again, and perceives a great shock on his building--Takes up a beautiful woman--He thinks her dead, but recovers her--A description of her--She stays with him
He is afraid of losing his new mistress--They live together all winter--A remark on that--They begin to know each others language--A long discourse between them at cross purposes--She flies--They engage to be man and wife
The author's disappointment at first going to bed with his new wife--Some strange circumstances relating thereto--She resolves several questions he asks her, and clears up his fears as to the voices--A description of swangeans
Youwarkee cannot bear a strong light--Her husband makes her spectacles, which help her--A description of them
Youwarkee with child--The author's stock of provisions--No beast or fish in Youwarkee's country--The voices again--Her reason for not seeing those who uttered 'em--She bears a son--A hard speech in her lying-in--Divers birds appear--Their eggs gathered--How the author kept account of time
His concern about clothing for Pedro, his eldest son--His discourse with his wife about the ship--Her flight to it--His melancholy reflections 'till her return--An account of what she had done, and of what she brought--She clothes her children and takes a second flight