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CHAPTER XIV |
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ADVENTURES AND EXCITEMENT
When we had been once again settled at Falcon s Nest for some days I suggested to the boys that they should practise shooting with arrows ; also running, jumping, getting up trees, both by means of climbing up the trunk or by a suspended rope, as sailors are obliged to do to get to the masthead.
We began at first by making knots in the rope, at a foot's distance from each other; then we reduced the number of knots, and before we left off we managed without any. I next taught them a new exercise, which was to throw two balls made of lead, fastened to each end of a string about six feet in length. This was in imitation of the Patagonians, who become so clever by practice that they can throw the balls and string so as to entangle the legs of wild animals and bring them to the ground.
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