Several of the sailors said things uheir breath that sounded like “Honor be blowed”, but Caspian said：
“Oh, bother you, Reepicheep. I almost wish we’d left you at home. All right！ If you put it that way, I suppo we shall have to go on. Unless Lucy would rather not?”
Lucy felt that she would very much rather not, but what she said out loud was, “I’m game.”
“Your Majesty will at least hts?” said Drinian.
“By all means,” said Caspian. “See to it, Captain.”
So the three lanterns, at the stern, and the prow and the masthead, were all lit, and Drinian ordered two torches amidships. Pale and feeble they looked in the sunshihen all the men except some who were left below at the oars were ordered on ded fully armed and posted in their battle stations with swords drawn. Lud two archers were posted on the fighting-top with bows bent and arrows oring. Rynelf was in the bows with his line ready to take soundings. Reepicheep, Edmuad Caspian, glittering in mail, were with him. Drinian took the tiller.
“And now, in Aslan’s name, forward！” cried Caspian. “A slow, steady stroke. A every man be silent and keep his ears open for orders.”
With a creak and a groan the Dawn Treader started to creep forward as the men began to row. Lucy, up in the fighting-top, had a wonderful view of the exaent at which they ehe darkness. The bows had already disappeared before the sunlight had left the stern. She saw it go. At one mihe gilded stern, the blue a, and the sky, were all in broad daylight： mihe a and sky had vahe stern lantern—which had been hardly noticeable before—was the only thing to show where the ship ended. In front of the lantern she could e the black shape of Drinian croug at the tiller. Down below her the two torches made visible two small patches of ded gleamed on swords as, and forward there was another island of light on the forecastle. Apart from that, the fighting-top, lit by the masthead light which was only just above her, emed to be a little lighted world of its own floating in lonely darkness. And the lights themlves, as always happens with lights when you have to have them at the wrong time of day, looked lurid and unnatural. She also noticed that she was very cold.