THE &KUA GULL. 



Manner in which it is taken. 



take them usually in two manners : they either 

 climb from below into these high promontories, 

 that are as steep as a wall ; or they let themselves 

 down with a rope from above. When they 

 climb from below, they have a pole five or six 

 ells long, with an iron hook at the end, which 

 they that are below in the boat, or on the cliff, 

 fasten unto the man's girdle, helping him up thus 

 to the highest place where he can get footing: 

 afterwards they also help up another man ; and 

 thus several climb up as high as possibly they 

 can; and where they find difficulty, they help 

 each other up by thrusting one another np with' 

 their poles. When the first hath taken footing, 

 he draws the other up to him, by the rope fas- 

 tened to his waist; and so they proceed, till they 

 come to the place where the birds build. They 

 there go about as well as they can, in those dan- 

 gerous places; the one holding the rope at one 

 end, and fixing himself to the rocks; the other 

 going at the other end from place to place. If 

 it should happen that he chanceth to fall, the 

 other that stands firm keeps him and helps him 

 up again. But if he passeth safe, he likewise 

 fastens himself till the other has passed the same 

 dangerous place also. Thus they go about the 

 cliffs after birds as they please. It often hap- 

 peneth, however, the more is the pity, that 

 where one doth not stand fast enough, or is not 

 sufficiently strong to hold up the other in his fall, 



