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第899章 The Voyage of the Dawn Treader(24)

“.and in five days more we were in sight of Muil, which, as you know, is the westernmost of the Seven Isles. Then we rowed through the straits and came about sundown into Redhaven on the isle of Brenn, where we were very lovingly feasted and had victuals and water at will. We left Redhaven six days ago and have made marvellously good speed, so that I hope to see the Lone Islands the day after tomorrow. The sum is, we are now nearly thirty days at sea and have sailed more than four hundred leagues from Narnia.”

“And after the Lone Islands?” said Lucy.

“No one knows, your Majesty,” answered Drinian. “Unless the Lone Islanders themselves can tell us.”

“They couldn’t in our days,” said Edmund.

“Then,” said Reepicheep, “it is after the Lone Islands that he adventure really begins.”

Caspian now suggested that they might like to be shown ver the ship before supper, but Lucy‘s conscience smote er and she said, “I think I really must go and see Eustace. easickness is horrid, you know. If I had my old cordial with e I could cure him.”