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AFTER this adventure they sailed on south and a little east for twelve days with a gentle wind，the skies being mostly clear and the air warm，and saw no bird or fish，except that once there were whales spouting a long way to starboard．Lucy and Reepicheep played a good deal of chess at this time．Then on the thirteenth day，Edmund，from the fighting top，sighted what looked like a great dark mountain rising out of the sea on their port bow．
They altered course and made for this land，mostly by oar， for the wind would not serve them to sail north-east．When evening fell they were still a long way from it and rowed all night． Next morning the weather was fair but a flat calm．The dark mass lay ahead，much nearer and larger，but still very dim，so that some thought it was still a long way off and others thought they were running into a mist．
About nine that morning，very suddenly，it was so close that they could see that it was not land at all，nor even，in an ordinary sense，a mist．It wa
