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down the way up which I had climbed, so carefully wrapping the eggs 
in my handkerchief and putting them in my coat pocket, I started down. 
This seemed even more difficult than the ascent, but I was cheered by 
the thought that each foot down gave me one foot less to fall if I should 
miss my footing! How the feat was accomplished without breaking the 
eggs, and perhaps my neck, I do not know, except that I recall my clinging 
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desperately to sundry and divers rock projections and stems of shrubs as 
I slowly backed down the cliff. But I finally arrived safely at the foot 
cf the perpendicular portion, from which the going was comparatively 
easy, and I was shortly back home. The trip had not taken more than 
four hours in spite of the time the ascent and descent of the highest 
cliff had seemed to consume. 
