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He comes down the side of precipices by a mysterious kind of pole-jumping half a dozen fathoms at a drop with landing-places a yard wide like a chamois or a rollicking Rocky Mountain ram.
He was taught to ride on horseback, and early became adept in pole-jumping whilst in the saddle, an art which the Frieslanders of that age had evolved to help their horses across the broad rhines of their country. In 1456, when he was just 12, he matriculated at Erfurt, and in May 1462 at Cologne.
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