noon
We felt that we had taught these wild ape-men a lesson and that because of it we would be safer in the future -- at least safer from them ; but we decided not to abate our carefulness one whit , feeling that this new world was filled with terrors still unknown to us ; nor were we wrong . The following morning we commenced work upon our camp , Bradley , Olson , von Schoenvorts , Miss La Rue , and I having sat up half the night discussing the matter and drawing plans . We set the men at work felling trees , selecting for the purpose jarrah , a hard , weather-resisting timber which grew in profusion near by . Half the men labored while the other half stood guard , alternating each hour with an hour off at noon . Olson directed this work . Bradley , von Schoenvorts and I , with Miss La Rue 's help , staked out the various buildings and the outer wall . When the day was done , we had quite an array of logs nicely notched and ready for our building operations on the morrow , and we were all tired , for after the buildings had been staked out we all fell in and helped with the logging -- all but von Schoenvorts .