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DER NEUENHEIMER.
XU
which everyone has forgotten) and procured a good
dinner, which we were decidedly in need of. At 3.30
we again started; the heavy four as usual starting first
was soon overtaken by the :< Donau" which took a lead
of about a kilometre : At this juncture, there was a
division in the river; and as nobody knew which side
of the division was the right one; the "Donau" naturally
went on the wrong side, and after rowing some way,
the crew was warned by a friendly German that they
were rowing down a weir, and so had to turn back and
l'ow up the rapids, which was decidedly hard work, the
more so, as everybody was beginning to show signs of
fatigue. Both boats then paddled alongside each other
and after consulting a map of the Neckar-valley, which
we had brought with us, we found that we had rowed
twenty-three miles, and had nine more to row before
we should reach Eberbach.
The weather, which up to this time had been
perfect, now began to look bad. And before we had
gone a mile and a half the rain came down in torrents:
" row up " was the cry " lets get somewhere," and we
did row up ; in a couple of minutes we were simply
soaked through and through. However we rowed on
for another five minutes, and on such occasions as this
five minutes seems a long time ; then the rain stopped,
but only for a minute or two, and then the wind
veered round and instead of blowing in our faces, blew
on to our backs, and then down came the rain harder
than ever.
After rowing for another mile we reached a village
called Neckargerach, which is better known now
among those who went on this expedition as " Neckar-
gesmashed " here we landed and found a little Wirths-
chaft where we got some very bad beer and tried to
get dry : this however was hopeless, and as it cleared
up a bit, we decided to go on to Eberbach, and get
dry there : by this time we were all very tired, stiff
and miserable and it was with some difficulty that we
managed to re-embark. The heavy four was about half
a mile ahead when they heard a terrific yell, and turn-
ing round, were just in time to see the Daran rapidly
assuming a position for which it was not built, namely
DER NEUENHEIMER.
XU
which everyone has forgotten) and procured a good
dinner, which we were decidedly in need of. At 3.30
we again started; the heavy four as usual starting first
was soon overtaken by the :< Donau" which took a lead
of about a kilometre : At this juncture, there was a
division in the river; and as nobody knew which side
of the division was the right one; the "Donau" naturally
went on the wrong side, and after rowing some way,
the crew was warned by a friendly German that they
were rowing down a weir, and so had to turn back and
l'ow up the rapids, which was decidedly hard work, the
more so, as everybody was beginning to show signs of
fatigue. Both boats then paddled alongside each other
and after consulting a map of the Neckar-valley, which
we had brought with us, we found that we had rowed
twenty-three miles, and had nine more to row before
we should reach Eberbach.
The weather, which up to this time had been
perfect, now began to look bad. And before we had
gone a mile and a half the rain came down in torrents:
" row up " was the cry " lets get somewhere," and we
did row up ; in a couple of minutes we were simply
soaked through and through. However we rowed on
for another five minutes, and on such occasions as this
five minutes seems a long time ; then the rain stopped,
but only for a minute or two, and then the wind
veered round and instead of blowing in our faces, blew
on to our backs, and then down came the rain harder
than ever.
After rowing for another mile we reached a village
called Neckargerach, which is better known now
among those who went on this expedition as " Neckar-
gesmashed " here we landed and found a little Wirths-
chaft where we got some very bad beer and tried to
get dry : this however was hopeless, and as it cleared
up a bit, we decided to go on to Eberbach, and get
dry there : by this time we were all very tired, stiff
and miserable and it was with some difficulty that we
managed to re-embark. The heavy four was about half
a mile ahead when they heard a terrific yell, and turn-
ing round, were just in time to see the Daran rapidly
assuming a position for which it was not built, namely