You may be sure they watched the cliffs on their left eagerly for any sign of a break or any place where they could climb them； but tho cliffs remained cruel. It was maddening, becau everyone khat if ohey were out of the ge on that side, they would have only a smooth slope and a fairly short walk to Caspian’s headquarters.
The boys and the Dwarf were now in favour of lighting a fire and cooking their bear-meat. Susan didn’t want this； she only wanted, as she said, “to get on and finish it a out of the beastly woods.” Lucy was far too tired and mirable to have any opinion about anything. But as there was no dry wood to be had, it mattered very little what ahought. The boys began to wonder if raw meat was really as nasty as they had always been told. Trumpkin assured them it was.
Of cour, if the children had attempted a journey like this a few days ago in England, they would have been knocked up. I think I have explained before how Narnia was altering them. Even Lucy was by now, so to speak, only ohird of a little girl going to b school for the first time, and two-thirds of Queen Lucy of Narnia.
“At last！” said Susan.
“Oh, hurray！” said Peter.
The river ge had just made a bend and the whole view spread out beh them. They could e open try stretg before them to the horizon and, between it and them, the broad silver ribbon of the Great River. They could e the specially broad and shallow place which had once been the Fords of Beruna but was now spanned by a long, many-arched bridge. There was a little town at the far end of it.
“By Jove,” said Edmund. “We fought the Battle of Beruna just where that town is！”
This cheered the boys more than anything. You ’t help feeling stronger when you look at a place where you won a glorious victory not to mention a kingdom, hundreds of years ago. Peter and Edmund were soon so busy talking about the battle that they fot their sore feet and the heavy drag of their mail shirts on their shoulders. The Dwarf was ied too.
They were all getting on at a quicker paow. The going became easier. Though there were still sheer cliffs on their left, the ground was being lower on their right. Soon it was no le at all, only a valley. There were no more waterfalls and prently they were in fairly thick woods again.