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Translating can be a treacherous means of communication, too.
The Independent called the U.N. decision to pull its current mission out of East Timor "a grand Pontius Pilate-style washing of hands" and "a treacherous abandonment for the Timorese people."
The warning on Spanish maps unfortunately did little to stop ships from running aground or foundering on the treacherous shoals; even today treasure lost centuries ago is still being discovered and salvaged.
So wide and treacherous is the river that, before the construction of the great concrete-and-steel bridge of Wuhan (the first to cross the Yangzi) in 1957, all communications depended on the ferries, which were often hampered by fog or flood.
These immigrant voyages were breathtaking and treacherous, requiring the crossing of 2,500 miles (4,000 km) of open seas aboard dugout catamarans and outrigger canoes.