Identifier: huntinginchamois00bonerich (find matches)
Title: Chamois hunting in the mountains of Bavaria and in the Tyrol
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Boner, Charles, 1815-1870
Subjects: Chamois Hunting -- Germany Bavaria
Publisher: London, Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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hose where Ihad hitherto been. They are wilder and more rugged,*and the difficult places far more frequent. Narrow pathsalong a ledge overhanging a precipice are sometimes notto be avoided : they must be passed in order to proceedfurther. In more than one place a wall of rock shutsout all advance : a path is impossible in such a spot,and yet if you could scale that perpendicular face of themountain, you would then be able to pursue your wayaccording to your pleasure. You have come so far, butfurther no living thing, except a bird, can get unaided.Nor is there any other spot where you may pass : thiswall of rock forms a break in your path of, it may be,a dozen yards or so, and which but for this barrierwould have suffered no interruption. If you cannotsurmount the obstacle, you must retrace your steps * Das steinerne Meer (The ocean of stone) is here,—so calledfrom the jagged rocks that, rising up one behind the other, and extend-ing on and on, look like the waves of a petrified sea.
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CHAPTER THE LAST. 423 for hours, and climb up the other side of the moun-tain. But to prevent the necessity of this, in suchplaces bars of iron have been driven into the rock andleft projecting sixteen or eighteen inches. They areplaced slantingly one above another, and by them, as onthe steps of a ladder, the hunter mounts up the steepface of the rock. He must of course be careful thathis rifle does riot swing against it, and that nothing hap-pens which might make him lose his balance while thushanging in the air. It is essential too that he shouldobserve which foot and hand he begins with; for if heput the wrong one first, he will hardly be able to go on;the bars being so arranged to receive, as he mounts, thisone the left, that one the right foot, and those above thegrasp of the right and left hand accordingly. To go upsuch a place is not quite pleasant, but coming down isstill less so; for in descending you are obliged to lookbelow to find the projecting piece of iron on which top

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