THE THREE SLEEPERS THE wind never failed but it grew gentler every day till at length the waves were little more than ripples, and the ship glided on hour after hour almost as if they were sailing on a lake. And every night they saw that there rose in the east new stellations whio one had ever seen in Narnia and perhaps, as Lucy thought with a mixture of joy and fear, no living eye had seen at all. Those ars were big and bright and the nights were warm. Most of them slept on ded talked far into the night or hung over the ships side watg the luminous dance of the foam thrown up by their bows.
On an evening of startliy, when the su behind them was so crimson and purple and widely spread that the very sky itself seemed to have grown larger, they came in sight of land on their starboard bow. It came slowly nearer and the light behind them made it look as if the capes and headlands of this new try were all on fire. But presently they were sailing along its coast and its western cape now rose up astern of them, black against the red sky and sharp as if it was cut out of cardboard, and then they could see better what this try was like. It had no mountains but many gentle hills with slopes like pillows. An attractive smell came from it - what Lucy called "a dim, purple kind of smell", which Edmund said (and Rhihought) was rot, but Caspian said, "I know what you mean.」
They sailed on a good ast point after point, hoping to find a nice deep harbour, but had to tent themselves in the end with a wide and shallow bay. Though it had seemed calm out at sea there was of course surf breaking on the sand and they could n the Dawn Treader as far in as they would have liked. They dropped anchood way from the bead had a wet and tumbling landing in the boat. The Lord Rhoop remained on board the Dawn Treader. He wished to see no more islands. All the time that they remained in this try the sound of the long breakers was in their ears.
Two men were left to guard the boat and Caspiahe others inland, but not far because it was too late for expl and the light would soon go. But there was o go far to find an advehe level valley which lay at the head of the bay showed no road or track or n of habitation. Underfoot was tine springy turf dotted here and there with a low bushy growth which Edmund and Lucy took for heather. Eustace, who was really rather good at botany; said it wasnt, and he robably right; but it was something of very much the same kind.
When they had gohan a bowshot from the shore, Drinian said, "Look! Whats that?" and everyoopped.
"Are they great trees?" said Caspian.
"Towers, l think," said Eustace.
"It might be giants," said Edmund in a lower voice.
"The way to find out is to ght iv among them," said Reepicheep, drawing his sword and pattering off ahead of everyone else.
"I think its a ruin," said Lucy when they had got a good deal nearer, and her guess was the best so far. What they noas a wide oblong space flagged with smooth stones and surrounded by grey pillars but unroofed. And from end to end of it ran a long table laid with a rich crimson cloth that came down nearly to the pavement. At either side of it were many chairs of stone richly carved and with silken cushions upon the seats. But oable itself there was set out such a ba as had never been seen, not even wheer the High Ki his court at Cair Paravel. There were turkeys and geese and peacocks, th