A woman in the Antipodes and in the Far East . than the Franz Josef Glacier. Good hospitality awaited us at Batsons AccommodationHouse. Refreshed by a nights rest, I was eager to beoff to explore the lovely surroundings, and having refusedthe company of a guide, I started alone. I very soon cameto what was, to me, an almost insurmountable obstacle, inthe form of a foot-bridge across the Waiau, more generallyknown as the Waiho, or Swirling River . The bridge is fragile in the extreme, 298 feet long, andbetween fifty and sixty feet above the water. The foot-way consists of two planks suspended b
A woman in the Antipodes and in the Far East . than the Franz Josef Glacier. Good hospitality awaited us at Batsons AccommodationHouse. Refreshed by a nights rest, I was eager to beoff to explore the lovely surroundings, and having refusedthe company of a guide, I started alone. I very soon cameto what was, to me, an almost insurmountable obstacle, inthe form of a foot-bridge across the Waiau, more generallyknown as the Waiho, or Swirling River . The bridge is fragile in the extreme, 298 feet long, andbetween fifty and sixty feet above the water. The foot-way consists of two planks suspended by iron ropes and, asmay be imagined, it sways considerably. Fortunately theplanks are enclosed in a wire netting reaching up aboutthree and a half feet on either side, and but for that I couldnever have contemplated crossing. Once on the other side, I tried to banish the disturbingthought that I should have to re-cross on my return. I passed a cottage or two and crossed a farm, and thenencountering a track through the virgin bush, I wandered. MOUNT COOK.
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