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parts, and lastly fasten on the legs. If the camera 

 is made ready first, there is nowhere to put it 

 while the legs are being extended, and with only 

 one hand to work with, something may be dropped, 

 and even the soundest of apparatus, tropical or 

 otherwise, is not improved by a fall of sixty feet 

 or so. 



If one is fortunate enough to have a companion 

 on the ground it is a great help, and things are 

 much simplified, in fact how great a help is not 

 realized by one who has been constantly thus aided, 

 till a day comes when he finds himself alone. One 

 can then put the line in a pocket in a bundle and 

 climb up free, turning this way or that as the 

 branches offer, without a thought of a tangled line 

 beneath. Arrived at the nest, and having made 

 fast to a branch one end of the line, the rest of the 

 bundle can be thrown down on that side presenting 

 the fewest obstacles, and the camera, which in the 

 meantime our assistant on the ground has erected, 

 can be hauled up complete and ready for immediate 

 work, to be followed by the dark-slides, etc., as 

 required. 



This saves a great deal of time and bother, and 

 when fixing the camera in position we can easily 

 haul up a rail, a branch, or other odds and ends, 

 and thus save a journey down. 



A compromise can be effected when alone by 



