AN OUTLAW OF THE AIR 



to be a small bush a few feet down the cliff, and on 

 two small branches of this my precious camera had 

 caught. He 

 soon hauled it 

 up, and I began 

 to unpack, still 

 expecting to 

 find the whole 

 apparatus re- 

 duced to match- 

 wood ; but it 

 felt solid from 

 the outside. 

 The straps 

 were quickly 

 undone and the 

 camera pulled 

 out,and,strange 

 to say, it had 

 survived this 

 journey one 

 bent screw and 

 a slight crack 

 being all the RAVEN'S NEST 



damage done. 



Then, however, I feared for the two lenses, and hardly 

 dared to open the silk handkerchief containing them; 

 but these, too, were safe, including my much-valued 



