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when they collect and throw down their booty to the 

 boat. Sometimes the party remains several days on 

 the expedition, sleeping in the crannies and caverns. 

 This mode is attended with peculiar hazard ; for as 

 a man often hangs suspended merely from the hands 

 of a single comrade," it occasionally happens that the 

 latter cannot sustain his weight, and thus lets him 

 fall, or is himself drawn over the rock, and shares in 

 his companion's miserable death. 



The object of these daring adventures, which bring 

 to mind the words of Shakspcare, 



Ilnlf way down 



Hangs one that gathers samphire — dreadful trade '" 



Is chiefly the Guillemot (Una Troth), a bird some- 



