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Despite the ease with which, in theory, he expected to descend to the ground, Grenville was fully ten minutes escaping from the tree.
A number of twigs that he could not have passed without creating a disturbance he cut away with his knife. His ladder was also badly caught and stubbornly refused to be adjusted. One violent rustling of a heavy limb he caused when it finally slipped straight down, with his feet all but striking on the ground.