After the food was cut off, all we could do was go down to the water to look for seaweed. There was a kind of sweet potato up in the mountains, but after two weeks all of the sweet potatoes were eaten up, roots, leaves, and all. After that, we went to the sea to catch crab and conch-we were living just like in Robinson Crusoe.
斷了糧，只好到海邊去撿紫菜，山上本來有種地瓜，兩個禮拜後，所有的地瓜連根帶葉通通吃完了，之後就往海裡抓螃蟹、找海螺裹腹，過著有如魯賓遜漂流記般的生活。」