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"Oak," I announced soberly, "and feels solid and strong No doubt those Indians e to rack the nerves"

"Will you adventure the passage?" questioned Cairnes, striving to peer across my shoulder "As for me I would rather atteiven 'T is either turn and go back, or foot the tree; of the two the atte would addle e as far as I dared, clinging desperately to the root, and gazed down It was like peering into the reat well Then I nerved myself for the ordeal, and the next ri as if with drunkenness Yet I kept , and soon felt solid rock oncefeet With prayer on lips I crouched, sick and dizzy, close in against the wall, watching Cairnes where he followed along the same perilous path