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The Bowline

will never jam under the heaviest strain. It
will never jam under the heaviest strain. It

This knot is used The description in slinging heavy bodies; it cannot slip, and may perhaps be will never jam under the heaviest strain. It rendered clearer is difficult to understand at first, but with a by the aid of the little practice can be made very rapidly. figures, which exhibit the top and bottom of Take the fixed or standing part of the rope in a box corded as described. The cords, howthe left hand (this should be done in making ever, are shown in a loose state, to allow all knots), lay the free end over it, and then their arrangement to be perceived more by a twist of the wrist make a loop in the easily. a Fig. 7.

Fig. 8. standing part which shall inclose the free end (a, Fig. 8); then carry the free end behind the standing part and trrough the loop, parallel with itself (b, Fig. 8). This knot will well repay the trouble spent in learning it.

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