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THE 'ODNi?OR I VoL. VII the beach in rapid succes. sion. 'Granting we could reach the smooth water beyond the high-rolling surf, the boat was then too heavy to hoist to a ledge high enough above the tide line to protect it from the lashing waves. The first difficulty we met, finally, by making two trips in succession with our equipment wrapped in water-tight bags. The second difficulty we overcame by taking a block and tackle and raising the boat to a ledge twelve feet above the water. Our enterprise involved the landing upon a rocky shelf at the foot of a precip- itious.cliff in mid-ocean. It was necessary to wait until conditions were favorable to have a reasonable possibility of success. We expected to get on the rocks, when we caught a calm spell. We hoped to get off before our provisions were all gone. We pitched our 4x7 tent on the beach among the drift, opposite the big rocks. Although it was the latter part of June, the sea winds were cold and the rain continuous. Occasionally, the sun would break from the clouds for a day and raise our hopes by diminishlug the size of the rollers, but this was sure to be followed by a sou'wester that brought a steady pour of drizzling rain and lashed the white-caps as high as ever. We were wet half the time but didn't seem to catch cold. We soon got into a sort of amphibian state, where a condition of water-soak seemed part of IN CAMP ON ARCH ROCK (-))uric.9' of TIie ?ac(/ic .?[onlhlJ' our normal environment. ' When it rained all day, we sometimes went to bed and slept our clothes dry. It rains a good nine months out of the year and one ot the natives said "it was a little apt to be showery the other three". For sixteen days we lay in camp, while the waves throbbed incessantly night and day like the pulse of a living world. Often, we lay awake at night feeling the rain beat on the canvas and listening to the wind, trying to imagine the growl