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 1 VIII  |      PREPARATIONS FOR VERTICAL DESCENT~Altona, which is but a suburb
 2 XI    |      would increase during our descent to a point which the mercurial
 3 XVI   |        order to facilitate the descent, Hans wound his way down
 4 XVI   |        the difficulties of the descent, down steeps unknown to
 5 XVII  |         CHAPTER XVII.~VERTICAL DESCENT~Now began our real journey.
 6 XVII  |     which would facilitate the descent. But if there was no want
 7 XVII  |        the abyss, followed the descent of the luggage with a satisfied
 8 XVII  |       I took the arms: and the descent commenced in the following
 9 XVII  |    silence, broken only by the descent of loosened stones down
10 XVII  |      taken for consent and the descent went on.~Another three hours,
11 XVII  |  repeated fourteen times, each descent occupying half an hour,
12 XVIII |  reason for believing that our descent was more horizontal than
13 XVIII |      incapable of reasoning. A descent of seven hours consecutively
14 XIX   |        June 30, at 6 a.m., the descent began again.~We were still
15 XX    |       his feet, down which our descent might be resumed, or that
16 XXII  | FAILURE OF WATER~This time the descent commenced by the new gallery.
17 XXIV  |        at the steepness of the descent.~“This will take us a long
18 XXIV  |      against accident, and the descent commenced. I can hardly
19 XXV   |    attained only by a diagonal descent of eighty-four, it follows
20 XXVIII|      Soon the swiftness of the descent increased horribly, and
21 XLI   |   which seemed like a vertical descent. To judge by the air which
22 XLI   |    that blew past my face. The descent became steeper. I believe