The Duties of Fugleman 259 
lay with me. Hence my assumption of the most unpleasant, and to 
me painful, duties of fugleman, for in cliff-work it is always far 
worse to watch another man climb than to do it oneself. On this 
DESCENT TO AN OSPREY’S NEST. 
occasion three of my party were naval men, two of them regular 
athletes, absolutely callous to any sentimental notions about heights 
and the so-called dangers of cliffs, 
