Beyond, the ground seems to slope regularly away.

If I could have got a rope I should have tried it, but they are pretty scarce commodities up here--in fact, I have never seen a piece twenty feet long since we came.

What sort of rope have you got ?" Dick opened the front of his garment, and showed the rope round his body.

Captain Holland gave a low whistle of dismay.
"I should not like to trust a child with that thing, Dick, much less a grown man.

It is no thicker than a flag halliard." "It is thin, Father, but there is no fear as to its strength.