When General Oglethorpe bombarded the fort,--at the time the Spaniards held it,--he made a good many dents in the wall, and these would help us.

I did climb up a few feet, but we saw that it would never do to try to get all the way up without a rope.
How to fasten the rope on the top of the wall was the next question.

We went in the fort, and found that if we could get a stout grapnel over the wall, it would probably catch on the inside of the coping, and give us a good enough hold.

There is a wide walk on top, with a low wall on the outside, just high enough to shelter cannon, and to enable the garrison to dodge musketry and arrows.
We had a good deal of trouble finding a rope, but we bought one, at last, which was stout enough,--the man asked us if we were going to fish for sharks, and didn't seem to believe us when we said no,--and we took it to our room, and made knots in it about a foot apart.

The fort walls are about twenty feet high, and we made the rope plenty long enough, with something to spare.