After that for many days, without wind in her shrouds or foam at her bows, across a waveless a, theDawn Treader glided smoothly east. Every day and every hour the light became more brilliant and still they could bear it. No oe or slept and no one wao, but they drew buckets of dazzling water from the a, strohan wine and somehow wetter, more liquid, than ordinary water, and pledged one another silently in deep draughts of it. And one or two of the sailors who had been oldish mehe voyage began now grew younger every day. Everyone on board was filled with joy aement, but not aement that made oalk. The further they sailed the less they spoke, and then almost in a whisper. The stillness of that last a laid hold on them.
“My Lord,” said Caspian to Drinian one day, “what do you e ahead?”
“Sire,” said Drinian, “I e whiteness. All along the horizon from north to south, as far as my eyes reach.”
“That is what I e too,” said Caspian, “and I agine what it is.”
“If we were in higher latitudes, your Majesty,” said Drinian, “I would say it was ice. But it ’t be that; not here. All the same, we’d better get men to the oars and hold the ship back against the current. Whatever the stuff is, we don’t want to crash into it at this speed！”
They did as Drinian said, and so tio go slower and slower. The whiteness did not get any less mysterious as they approached it. If it was land it must be a very strange land, for it emed just as smooth as the water and on the same level with it. When they got very clo to it Drinian put the helm hard over and turhe Dawn Treader south so that she was broadside on to the current and rowed a little way southward along the edge of the whiteness. In so doing they actally made the important discovery that the current was only about forty feet wide and the rest of the a as still as a pond. This was good news for the crew, who had already begun to think that the return jouro Ramandu’s land, rowing against stream all the way, would be pretty poor sport. （It also explained why the shepherd girl had dropped so quickly astern. She was not in the current. If she had been she would have been movi at the same speed as the ship.）