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been hauled up on the last faithful strand of a rope, with his hair 

 standing on end, his face o'erspread with an unspeakable horror, and 

 then fainted dead away on reaching terra Jjrma. 



I have heard a lot of terrible tales about chafing ropes, but as 



DESCENDING AN OVERHANGING CLIFF 

 From Kearton's ' Wild Life at Home,' copyrig-hted by Cassell & Co., Ltd. 



a matter of fact, there are dangers a thousand times greater if less 

 picturesque ; such, for instance, as a prosaic little stone, no bigger than 

 an orange, being dragged out of its bed by one of the ropes when the 



