On the shore of this little eddy there is about two feet of gravel beach above water.

Standing on this beach, some of the men take a line of the little boat and let it drift down against another projecting angle.

Here is a little shelf on which a man from my boat climbs, and a shorter line is passed to him, and he fastens the boat to the side of the cliff.

Then the second one is let down, bringing the line of the third.

When the second boat is tied up, the two men standing on the beach above spring into the last boat, which is pulled up alongside ours.