第904章 The Voyage of the Dawn Treader(29)

Caspian now showed them over the ship， though indeed hey had seen most of it already. They went up on the orecastle and saw the look.out man standing on a little helf inside the gilded dragon‘s neck and peering through its pen mouth. Inside the forecastle was the galley （or ship’s itchen） and quarters for such people as the boatswain， the arpenter， the cook and the master archer. If you think it dd to have the galley in the bows and imagine the smoke om its chimney streaming back over the ship， that is ecause you are thinking of steamships where there is ways a headwind. On a sailing ship the wind is coming om behind， and anything smelly is put as far forward as ossible. They were taken up to the fighting top， and at first was rather alarming to rock to and fro there and see the eck looking small and far away beneath. You realized that you fell there was no particular reason why you should ll on board rather than in the sea. Then they were taken o the poop， where Rhince was on duty with another man t the great tiller， and behind that the dragon‘s tail rose up， overed with gilding， and round inside it ran a little bench. he name of the ship was Dawn Treader. She was only little bit of a thing compared with one of our ships， or ven with the cogs， dromonds， carracks and galleons which arnia had owned when Lucy and Edmund had reigned here under Peter as the High King， for nearly all navigation ad died out in the reigns of Caspian’s ancestors. When his ncle， Miraz the usurper， had sent the seven lords to sea， hey had had to buy a Galmian ship and man it with hired almian sailors. But now Caspian had begun to teach the arnians to be sea.faring folk once more， and the Dawn reader was the finest ship he had built yet. She was so mall that， forward of the mast， there was hardly any deck oom between the central hatch and the ship‘s boat on oneside and the hen.coop （Lucy fed the hens） on the other. But she was a beauty of her kind， a “lady” as sailors say， her lines perfect， her colours pure， and every spar and rope and pin lovingly made. Eustace of course would be pleased with nothing， and kept on boasting about liners and motor.boats and aeroplanes and submarines （“As if he knew anything about them，” muttered Edmund）， but the other two were delighted with the Dawn Treader， and when they returned aft to the cabin and supper， and saw the whole western sky lit up with an immense crimson sunset， and felt the quiver of the ship， and tasted the salt on their lips， and thought of unknown lands on the Eastern rim of the world， Lucy felt that she was almost too happy to speak.