I should advise you to keep your eyes shut, till you get to the bottom, for the rope will certainly twist round and round; but keep your arms well in front of you, and whenever you feel the rock, open your eyes, and send yourself off with your arms and legs.

I don't think you will touch, for at this point it seemed to me, as I looked down, that the rock projects farther out than anywhere else on the face of the precipice, and that a stone dropped straight down would fall some fourteen or fifteen feet from its foot.

Would you like me to bandage your eyes ?" "No, thank you.

I will keep my eyes closed." "That is the best thing you can do," Captain Holland said, "though it is so dark that you would not be able to see, if you did.

When you get to the bottom, untie the rope, pull it gently down, and call out to me whether the lowest piece of stick touches the ground.