Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 324
FIG. 3. BOWLINE UPON BIGHT. FIG. 4. BECKET HITCH. it, but is simplest to describe. If you would tiethe knot in true nautical style, lay the end partacross the standing part, and with a turn of the left A KNOTTY SUBJECT. 30I wrist place the gooseneck, C, over it. Finish asbefore. A Bowline upon a… … ROLLING HITCH BLACKWALL HITCH. in simple bowline, and pass B up through it (seedotted lines, Fig. 3). So far, the knot is practicallythe same; but now B must be pulled through C,and spread open sufficiently to bend it downwardand over the larger bights, C and D, and then upagain until it surrounds…
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