322 The Eagle Owl 
practice when possible, for several reasons. Chancing to look 
round as I was picking up my discarded gear, I was horrified to 
see that the rope upon which my friend was depending had been 
neatly cut through about a yard behind the point where two of 
the party who were doing the lowering work were grasping it. 
Of course a caution for them to hold on was all that was 
PROFILE OF CRAG WITH CAVERN. 
Nesting Place of Eagle Owl, and formerly of Bonelli’s Eagle. 
needed and no harm befell anyone, but the humour of the 
situation lay distinctly with the retriever, who tired of being 
“down -charged” alongside my clothes had whiled away his 
leisure by thus severing the line of communication between the 
rock above and his master below. Subsequently I worked round 
the flank of this little cliff and got a photograph of its profile, 
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