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Slung to his girdle he carried a long thin coil of cord; and while he had been making these preparations, one of his companions had cut a strong creeper or bush-rope eight or ten yards long, to one end of which the wood-torch was fastened, and lighted at the bottom, emitting a steady stream of smoke.
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The general character of the Bornean forests is necessarily tropical. In the higher regions the traveller gazes delightedly on the infinite number of fantastically flowering orchids, and arborescent ferns with colossal leaves of filmy lace-work, perennial urticeæ (or nettles) three feet high, glorious bignonias, and splendidly beautiful passion-flowers, filling the air with fragrance, and intertwining, in an embrace that death only can put aside, with creepers, bushropes, and interminable lianes.
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He had to climb a bushrope to save himself in a tree, and there he was held up for twenty-four hours until the peccary forgot what they had come for.
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Yesterday I lay in a bushrope hammock in an Indian house, finishing a flash-card lesson on numbers.
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