Identifier: withnatureandcam00kear (find matches)
Title: With nature and a camera; being the adventures and observations of a field naturalist and an animal photographer
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Kearton, Richard, 1862-1928
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Publisher: London, Paris, New York, Melbourne, Cassell and company, limited
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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126 WITH NATURE AND A CAMERA. St. Kilda who knew how to make one was long-since dead. My purchase weiglis three pounds,and measures iifty-two feet m length, and is, Ineed hardly say, treasured as a prize of con-siderable value amongst my collection of curiosities. Kenneth Macau-lay describes thefowling-rope in useat the time ofhis visit as thirtyfathoms long, madeof a strong, raw cow-hide . . . capableof sustaining a greatweight, and lastingfor about two gener-ations. He addstliat in tlie testa-ment of a father itconstitutes the veryfirst article in favourof his eldest son;should it happen tofall to a daughtersshare in default ofmale heirs it isreckoned equal invalue to the two bestcows in the isle.Four years ago a girl, whilst watching the mencollect eggs on the Doou, had her petticoatsballooned by a sudden squall of wind, and waslifted clean over the clift. She fell one hundredand eighty feet without a break, and alighted on aledge which was covered with earth. The cragsuuMidescende

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