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accomplishing my desire and indeed to look over the edge gave me a peculiar sensation. In the afternoon enlisting the services of an Aleut boy Col. Woods and one of the a.m. party we returned and tying the rope about the boys waist tried to have him work his way along the shelf to the nest just around a projecting angle, he started and his courage gave way and he came back. I then tied the rope under my own arms and worked my way out on the shelf which was barely wide enough to let my feet rest upon but as the cliff projected over the shelf I was obliged to hold myself against the face by means of small cracks and projecting fragments which had a bad habit of falling off when touched and striking with a thud far below. At last I had the satisfaction of