In a few moments he was barefoot, his stockings folded in his pockets and his canvas shoes dangling by their knotted laces over his shoulders and, picking a pointed salt-eaten stick out of the jetsam among the rocks, he clambered down the slope of the breakwater.
Berehala zen oinutsik; sartu zituen galtzerdiak poltsikoetan, zintzilikatu zituen lonazko oinetakoak lepotik behera lokarriak elkarri korapilatuta eta harkaitz arteko zaborra artetik gatzak jandako makila puntadun bat hartu eta itsas hautsiaren maldan behera jaitsi zen.