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So we strolled back to the city in the gathering darkness, bought a map of the Rhine and a couple of rucksacks and laid in a small stock of provisions at a great department store, biscuits, chocolates, some hard sausage and two small flasks of rum.
"Yes, but there would be a house nearer than Odde. If I could get some bearers we'd get you comfortable before dark." "Oh, I'm comfortable enough now," Urquhart said. James thought that a bad sign. He unpacked the rücksacks, got out the brandy-flask, a mackintosh, a sweater and a cape.
The choughs are persistent followers of a Ski-ing party, flying over one's head and chirruping for lunch. When at last we stop and take our nosebags out of our Rucksacks, they perch on a cliff near and wait till we move on, when they immediately fly down to see what we have left for them.
No part of the course should be along a road. Throughout the Test candidates must carry rucksacks, which should weigh about six lbs. for men, and three lbs. for ladies. The ski must not be removed during the test, except to clean or repair them. The Judges should, if possible, appoint two time-keepers. During the descent not more than six candidates must be judged in one batch.
A rattle of stones made him look up, and he saw two girls silhouetted in a flash of sunshine against the face of the crag. They carried bulging rucksacks and were coming down towards him, picking their way among the tumbled rocks. He could not see the face of the first, but noticed her light poise and graceful movements as she sprang from stone to stone.
And already the telephone-wires had been effectively cut. All the approaching Legionaries wore rucksacks, and all were in their respective uniforms, though every man still wore a long coat that concealed it. A few groups of two appeared, bearing rather heavy burdens.
Yes, Wastdale shall be to-night's halt. And so over Black Sail, and down the rough mountain side to the inn whose white-washed walls hail us from afar out of the gathering shadows of the valley. To-morrow? Well, to-morrow shall be as to-day. We will shoulder our rucksacks early, and be early on the mountains, for the first maxim in going a journey is the early start.
He was standing by the door of the hotel, and looking up he saw Michel Revailloud and a small band of guides, all of whom carried ice-axes and some Rücksacks on their backs, and ropes, come tramping down the street toward him. Michel Revailloud came close to his side and spoke with excitement. "He has been seen, monsieur. It must have been Monsieur Lattery with his one guide.
A lathering climb it was, laden as they were with heavy rucksacks, in the moonless obscurity. Now and then the Master's little searchlight his own wonderful invention, a heatless light like an artificial firefly, using no batteries nor any power save universal, etheric rays in an absolute vacuum glowed with pale virescence over some particularly rough bit of going.
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