{In Jess than one minute we were down to the' middle. of our' course and, then, from the other bank the terrymen' began their work. Each jerk. they gave, pulling the long towing rope caused us to dance In the air, a most unpleasant kind of Tt went so for a little while, then we felt a shock, heard a splash below us and slipped back at full speed in the ageing middle part of the The towing rope had broken.
The accident in itself did not en danger our lives. Men would come to attach the rope that they were drawing out of the water. But gid-dines "might overcome vs, suspended as we were, two or three hundred feet above the swift current.
The way in which we were tached afforded security for a con scious passenger in an erect. po tion whose hands had a strong grip to the strap under the hook, but could not be trusted in the case of one who collapsed and dropped. Dackward, My nerves are solid. I thei
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