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第995章 The Voyage of the Dawn Treader(120)

Neither said anything for a while. The last bright star had anished and though they could not see the sunrise because f the mountains on their right, they knew it was going n because the sky above them and the bay before them urned the colour of roses. Then some bird of the parrot ind screamed in the wood behind them, and they heard ovements among the trees, and finally a blast on Caspian’s orn. The camp was astir.

Great was the rejoicing when Edmund and the restored ustace walked into the breakfast circle round the camp re. And now of course everyone heard the earlier part f his story. People wondered whether the other dragon ad killed the Lord Octesian several years ago or whether ctesian himself had been the old dragon. The jewels ith which Eustace had crammed his pockets in the cave ad disappeared along with the clothes he had then been earing: but no one, least of all Eustace himself, felt any esire to go back to that valley for more treasure.

In a few days now the Dawn Treader, remasted, re. ainted, and well stored, was ready to sail. Before they mbarked Caspian caused to be cut on a smooth cliff facing he bay the words:

DRAGON ISLAND DISCOVERED BY CASPIAN X, KING OF NARNIA, ETC.