Show DOWN GREASED ROP ROPE engineers peculiar experience while working in africa A young civil engineer named fox had a thrilling experience while super intending part of the construction of 0 the great bridge over the zambezi riv er at victoria tails falls africa he ile had de blended been ded to the water s edge and to as him to ascend a rope was thrown to him As he was being drawn upward the rope was dragged through a huge greasy fungus both the rope and the young engineer engineers s hands be came lubricated he ile began to slip and then lost his grip entirely he ile slid rapidly down the entire length of 0 the rope eighty feet and then twenty feet through the air beyond he ile would have been dashed to pieces at the bottom of 0 the precipice had the fork of a tree not caught him and held I 1 im here he was rescued with much difficulty no bones were broken even this experience did not caucho engineer fox to lose his nerve tor for he holds the distinction of being the first man to be carried across the river on the first cable slung making the trip in a basket |