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the moor-fowl(they were not,of course,talking birds)which Eustace and the wiggle shot. Jill rather envied Eustace for being able to shoot;he had learned it on his voyage with King Caspian. As there were countless streams on the moor,they were never short of water. Jill thought that when, in books,people live on what they shoot,it never tells you what a long,smelly,messy job it is plucking and cleaning dead birds, and how cold it makes your fingers. But the great thing was that they met hardly any giants. One giant saw them,but he only roared with laughter and stumped away about his own business.
About the tenth day,they reached a place where the country changed. They came to the northern edge of the moor and looked down a long,steep slope into a different,and grimmer,land. At the bottom of the slope were cliffs:beyond these,a country of high mountains,dark precipices,stony valleys,ravines so deep and narrow that one could not see far into them,and rivers that poured out of echoi