Ingenious Tree-climbing 



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The head of each pin was then securely 

 tied to this pole, which made a simple 

 and effective ladder. The Dyak who 

 climbed up told us that the nest con- 

 tained the mother and one young one. 

 These two birds were walled in with 

 a resinous substance, leaving only a 

 small hole through which the male bird 

 fed them, and the diameter of the hole 

 would be about two inches. This gum- 

 like substance is 

 formed, as I after- 

 flmt wards found, in 



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Storming the Stronghold of the Hornbfli. 



