The Black Vulture 
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clear that he was getting pumped, for the expenditure of energy 
on the part of a man thus balanced on one foot only, in such a 
situation, and using all his strength, is very great. 
Just as we were in despair as to his ultimate success the rope, 
which he had kept circling round and round, struck the bough, 
and the loop overlapped, it hanging down a foot or so. To 
us below this seemed to be a failure only in another form, but 
we were vastly mistaken. Letting go one portion of the rope he 
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grasped the other as low as he could reach, and by a combined 
turn of the wrist and upward jerk, as impossible to describe as 
it would be to imitate, he deftly made ove part of the loop “ flick” 
off the end of the stump, thus causing the bight of the rope to 
remain securely looped round it. 
After testing the strength of this new point, he grasped the 
two portions of the rope and climbed up as before. Repeating this 
extraordinary process once or twice again, he at last reached the 
