The daily Alaskan., 1912-12-06
OVER A PRECIPICE,
Nerve Hacking Experience of a
 Hunter In the TyTOl.
BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH.

PsriIs the Daring Adventursr srsVed
 to Rob a Golden Eagles Nest of It's
 Young and the Anxious Hours He
 Spent Dangling In Terror In Mid Air.
 An Englishman who was spending his vacation in the TyrOl learned that pair of golden eagles were ravaging the valleys of poultry and small game and found that they had their aerie on certain mountainside. Being of an ad- venturous disposition he obtained the services of several woodcutters and started out before dawn determined to capture the young eagle that was be Heved to be in the nest
 When the party asceuded the noun tain and looked over the edge of the perpendicular cliff they could see a ledge about 100 feet below them. One of the party remained at the top while the others lowered themselves to the ledge by means of rope.
 Here they fastened a fifty fathom half Inch rope to the stump of tree, fixed a block of wood against the edge of the cllff for the rope to run over, fas- tened au iron hook In the crevice of the rocks and prepared to lower the Eng Hshman to the aerie, which they could now see far below.
 A stout leather belt was fastened round hls waist, with an iron ring in front. through which the rope passed To the end of the rope a strong piece of wood was Enotted, and the English man seated himself astride it
 With a rife on his back, a revolver In hls pocket, a big knife fin bis belt and a long pole in his hands he was ready to start. Five men took hold of the rope, while two others lay dat upon the rocks. rifles in hand. looking over the edge Of the clirr If the old birds should attack the intruder his life would probably depend upon those two rifles.
 The descent lasted ten or fifteen min utes. Then the Englishman found him self opposite the eagles ledge, He jerked the signal line. He was ten or twelve feet from the ledge, but with the hooked end of bis long pole he was able to draw himself in and pres ently was gazing cautiously over the edge of the nest which, to bis sur prise, contained not one eaglet, but two.
 One of them, not without a lively struggle. he put into the canvas bag he had brought for the purpose. The other he finally managed to secure by running a moose over its feet He tied the bag to the signal cord, arranged himself upon his wooden seat, took the second bird in his left hand and gave the signal. The men on the ledge above. contrary to instructions, gave vigorous pull that wrenched the pole from his hands and sent him away from the cliff at a frightful pace. The return swing was likely 10 dash him against the rock with deadly force.
 There was but one thing to do, and the EnCllShman had the presence of mind to do it He tilted the upper part of bis body backward and his legs for. ward and struck the rock with his feet, with no worse result than a paralyzed feeling in hIs legs and a twitChing sen satlon in his back and loins.
 Just then a dark object flashed by him. It passed in such close prOX- imIty that the man felt the rush of air produced by It's flight At first he sup posed 1t to be a falling stone, but pres eutly be perceived that instead of being drawn upward he was quite stationary.
 One hour passed, then two, and still he hung motionless at the end of the rop. He could of course form no Idea of what had happened The strange situation finally got upon his nerves He imagined that he had been aban- doned and must swing there tin he lost his hold and fell to his death or until the parent eagles should return and pluck out his eyes. To add to his mts fortunes, a sharp thunderstorm came Ou llul NPl ulll NO tue NNlN "'N "''''F blinded him with lightning
 At Inst. when he had hung thus be tween heaven and earth for more than three hours. he felt a tug upon ihe rope and In fifteen minutes was at th" top with his two prizes
 Then he found that the falling oh feet was the block on which the rop had run It had had to be replaced lest the rope should be cut by the shnrT edge of the rock. and the long dela' had been caused by the necessity Oi sending the one man at the top dowl to the base of the mountain to cut Q small tree and make a second block