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They did not go home to the hut to perform their culinary operations. There would have been no advantage in doing so: since the kitchen accommodation there was not a whit better than where they were at work; and the larder contained nothing more than what they had brought along with them some dried ibex-meat.
As soon as they had hung the ibex-meat upon the curing strings, and pegged out the two skins for drying, they turned their attention to the making of the rope by which they were to be pulled out of their prison. By good fortune they had a large stock of hemp on hand all ready for twisting.
Up to the hour of sunset did these "cascarilleros" work with only a few minutes of interruption, while they went back to the hut, and ate a hurried luncheon of ibex-meat and just as the sun was sinking behind the summit of the great Chumulari, they might have been seen trudging homeward each bearing a heavy bundle of bark, with Fritz following gleefully at their heels.
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