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At last they came to a place where the Warden commanded his cheerless lantern to be lit again. Then they passed into a cave so wide and dark that they could see nothing of it except that right in front of them a strip of the pale sand ran down into still water. And there,beside a little jetty,lay a ship without mast or sail but with many oars. They were made to go on board her and nearer;but there was not a song or a shout or a bell or the rattle of a wheel anywhere. The City was as quiet,and nearly as dark,as the inside of an ant-hill.
At last their ship was brought alongside a quay and made fast. The three travellers were taken ashore and marched up into the City. Crowds of Earthmen,no two alike,rubbed shoulders with them in the crowded streets,and the sad light fell on many sad and grotesque faces. But no one showed any interest in the strangers. Every gnome seemed to be as busy as it was sad,though Jill never found what they were so busy about. But the endless moving, shovin