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which two small and well-worn ropes stretched nearly 
two hundred feet to the remaining pier on the farther 
bank. A hundred feet below was the Chixoy, foaming 
over its rocky bed. This we might see to the best 
advantage; for one by one we sat in a sling hung from 
Rope Bridge over the Chixoy. 
a rickety traveller, and, launching from the cliff, slid 
lapidly down the slack ropes, and after sliding back at 
the middle, were hauled up on to the remaining pier. 
Fiom this structure we descended a rough ladder to the 
shore, which was sandy and strewed with bowlders and 
other remains of the action of higher waters. Dizzy as 
