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to proceed without the aid of both hands and after consultation with 
the others had to abandon his gun, which was dashed to pieces on 
the rocks far below. This talus in our instance proved too much 
THE OSPREY’S CLIFF. 
for some of my party and unluckily amongst them was the man whom 
I had relied upon to signal to me the precise position of the nest 
when we had gained the summit. 
