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第898章 The Voyage of the Dawn Treader(23)

“.and unhorsed many knights,” repeated Drinian with a grin. “We thought the duke would have been pleased if the King’s Majesty would have married his daughter, but nothing came of that.”

“Squints, and has freckles,” said Caspian. “Oh, poor girl,” said Lucy.

“And we sailed from Galma,” continued Drinian, “and ran into a calm for the best part of two days and had to row, and then had wind again and did not make Terebinthia till the fourth day from Galma. And there their King sent out a warning not to land for there was sickness in Terebinthia, but we doubled the cape and put in at a little creek far from the city and watered. Then we had to lie off for three days before we got a south.east wind and stood out for Seven Isles. The third day out a pirate (Terebinthian by her rig) overhauled us, but when she saw us well armed she stood off after some shooting of arrows on either part.”

“And we ought to have given her chase and boarded her and hanged every mother‘s son of them,” said Reepicheep.