Definition: A crude or makeshift dwelling or shelter.
Location: Crusoe makes his way up a stream in search of a new location for his inhabitation. He docks when he reaches a flat area of land on the right side of the stream. Crusoe decides to situate his new shelter a little farther off the stream to enable him to stay along the same coast where he landed.
Purpose: Crusoe moved from his old shelter to explore and find a better site which could still protect him from the weather and wild animals. Now that he salvaged some goods from the wreck, he also needed suitable storage and shelter to protect them from spoiling or getting ruined. Again, the house is simply a temporary shelter until he can get rescued and/or better materials and more time to create a more permanent home.
How it is made: Crusoe simply salvages materials from the shipwreck to create his home using three seaman’s chests, a carpenter’s chest and casks which are stacked to make up the wall while planks are combined to form a roof. A tent is also built a day later when he manages to salvage some poles and a sail from the wreckage.
“I went to work to make me a little tent, with the sail and some poles which I cut for that purpose; and into this tent I brought everything that I knew would spoil, either with rain or sun ; and I piled all the empty chests and; casks up in a circle round the tent, to fortify it from any sudden attempt, either from man or beast.”
“I barricaded myself round with the chests and boards that I had brought on shore, and made a kind of a hut for that night's lodging”
Size and Scale: The hut/tent is just big enough for himself, a chest of perishable goods and a couple muskets.
Timeline: Crusoe builds the hut on the second night and on the third he builds the tent.
Narrative: Typically huts are used for nomads as temporary shelters made up of indigenous materials to the land.
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