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the left, and striking a joint in the rock running at an angle of 45 
or so slipped along it with my weight on the rope, keeping myself 
NEST AND EGGS OF GOLDEN EAGLE. 
in to the face of the cliff by handhold. By this means it was easy 
to get to the nest, always keeping a strain on the rope, an essential 
proviso owing to the absence of any safe foothold. On this occasion 
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