Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-10-02
OVER A PREC|P|CE.
Nerve Racking Experience Of a
Hunter IN the Tyro|.
W HEAVEN AND EARTH.
PsriIs the Daring Advsnturer 6ravsd
TO Rob a Golden Eagles Nest Of It's
Young and the Anxious Hours He
Spent Dangling In Terror In Mid Air.


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 Il
| pair Of golden eagles were ravaging the
valleys Of poultry and small game and
found that they had their acrie on a
| certain mountainside. Being Of an ad-
| %venturous disposition he obtained the
services Of several woodcutte:s and
| started out before dawn determined to
| capture the young eagle that was be.
ueved to be in the nest.
When the party assembled the noun
tain and looked over the edge Of the
perpendicular cliff they could sec 4
ledge about 100 feet below them. One
Of tue party remained at the top while
the others lowered themselves to the
ledge by means Of a rope.
Here they fastened a fifty fathom
half inch rope to the stump of a tree.
| fixed Il block Of wood against the edge
of the cliff for the rope to run over, fas-
| tened an iron hook in the creVice Otthe
rocks and prepared to lower the Eng
liShman to the aerie. which they could
now see far below.
A stout leather belt was fastened
round his waist, with an iron ring In
front. through which the rope passed.
10 the end OF the rope Il strong piece
Of wood was kDotte6. and the English
.lan seated himself astridc it.
With a rifle Oh his back. Il revolver
in his pocket, a big knife. In his belt
and q long pore in his hands he was
ready to start. Five men took hold Of
the rope whiles two Others lay fat upon
the rocks. rifles in hand. looking over
tho edge Of the cliff. II thc 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
jerkcd the signal line. He was ten
or twelve feet from the ledge. but with
the hooked end Of his long pole he
was able to draw himself in and pres
entity was gazing cautiously over the
edge Of the nest, which. TO his sur
prise. contained not one caglet, but
two. ~ o. ="
One OF them. not without a lively
struggle. be put into the canvas bag be
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 q
vigorous pull that wrencled the pole
from his bands and sent him away
from the cliff ut a frightful pace. The.
return swing was likely TO dash him
against the rock with deadly force.
There was but one thing to do. aud
the Englishman had the presence Of
mind to do it. He tilted the upper part
Of his body backward and bis legs for
ward and struck the rock with iis feet,
with no worse result than q paraIyzed
feeling in bis legs and a twitching sell
sation in his back and loins.
Just then a dark object flashed by
him. 1t passed 10 such close prox-
Unity that the man felt the rush of air
produced by its flight. At first. he sup
posed it to be a falling stone. but pres.
entity he perceived that instead of being
drawn upward he was quite stationary.
One hour passed. then two. und still
he huns, m~otti!onleess. at The, end Of the