110 THE OCEAN. 
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. 
GUILLEMOT AND GANNET. 
The object of these daring adventures, which bring 
to mind the words of Shakspeare, 
; “Talf way down 
Hangs one that gathers samphire—dreadful trade!” 
is chiefly the Guillemot (Uria Troile), a bird some: 
