FROM TONKIN TO INDIA 



you to keep your hands clasped on the saddle, clear of the 

 friction of the rope. Once mounted and set in motion, it was a 

 slide down one side, and a ])ull and scramble up the other by 



Mode i)( Crossing on a Single-line Bridge. 



hands and feet. 1 n some narrow channels there is a double cable, 



and it may be done at a single rush. But at Piao-tsen the crossing 



took a quarter of an hour, and a considerable expenditure of energy. 



We held on our way up the right shore of the Mekong, and 



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