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wit$i a^Rfong rope, one always feeks- a convenient place* to ftaiid
fore, and.be able tpj'hpld himfelf fail, whilft the other is climbing
about. Iff thefattgti fhould happen'tb flip, then he ,is held up
by the other,, whp;:flands,.firrn, and helps him up again; and
when he has. got {afe bythofeMange^us places, then he fibres
himfelf in. the fame jfcpanner, {.that ’he may affift idle other to come
fafe to him; .and jthep .th^^fclamb.er about„after Birds where
they,pleafe. -But acffilentsfometimes happen ; for.if the. oneidoes
hot ftandj firm, or isiVn,at,ftrong enough to, fupport the other
when he Hips, they bpth.<fall!j,>afid are,kill’d ; and this way there
are forpe g^pry yjeidefojroyed-.
Hr. Peder Claufopj in'h^;|©efcript'ioiii,of,Norway,.-writes, that
in former times; there in the chatty,, that when any
one by climbin.gr), the_rocks 1 fejlj, and.was. killed, and his,body
wai found, that, tla.cn his neareft relation fhould go.*.the fame
way, J f hejcppld pot,, Qr yvould not-Wfenture, .then the deceafed
was n.®J*all^iwed a cbriftiaji, burial yybtm treated fas a criminal, who
had, by that m.eans, been his( own f executioner ; butt that law is
Apt in force now. ^days:
I When 'f hey,, in ihg m.anpe1? already, ,relatpd,Jl-gef fop the? rocks
'tdf||efoirds-,y^^ they;felaom-;cpm'e,; the,Birds
5are fo fomgUhat they may#^| thgcp, yp with "their hands; for
they, do not readily leave their young $ but, where they are wild,
there ihgyEfother throw a net oyer them rin the rock, pr elfe;thofe
that are. flying a,way, or come flying in »again, they throw their
poles againft withyfafc net on them, and fo entangle, them in, it.
■ Jhis way thty catch vaft numbers fobthe Lumvifery Alliker, and
Lunder. In. the mean time, there is a bpat lying-mriderneath, on.
the. fea,‘ into , which, they throw their dead fowl, and fo quiekfy
f 11' thefoeffol.’' When' the weathefgis tolerably good, and there
is, a. good jdekl. pfogame, -the birdmen will fiefoght days together
in the rocks; for there are here and a there holes that they can
fafely and fecurely ; reft in ; apd pimyifion is .let doyn to them by
lines, and others go every day to them with little boats, to fetch
.what they catch;. f|
Many roqks are jfo frightful and,dangerous that they cannot
poflibly climb up them; for which reafap, they continue to get
down from above,’* which they call to fie; thisfothe -fecoiid way
of fearching for Birds, fodfojdqne thus: they have a ftrongfock-
line, qr rope, eighty or an hundred fathom long, and about; three
jnchps in thicknefs;. one end of this the, birdman fallens about
bis waift in the place _of a belt, and, then he .draws it betwixt
his legs, fo that he can fit on it ;, and fo he is let down with his
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