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s just disappeared,”said Lucy.
“Yes,and there’s another one coming up,”said Edmund.
“And nearer,”said Eustace.
“Hang it!”said Caspian.“The whole thing is moving this way.”
“And moving a great deal quicker than we can sail,Sire,”said Drinian.“It’ll be up with us in a minute.”
They all held their breath,for it is not at all nice to be pursued by an unknown something either on land or sea.But what it turned out to be was far worse than anyone had suspected.Suddenly, only about the length of a cricket pitch from their port side,an appalling head reared itself out of the sea.It was all greens and vermilions with purple blotches—except where shellfish clung to it—and shaped rather like a horse’s,though without ears.It had enormous eyes,eyes made for staring through the dark depths of the ocean,and a gaping mouth filled with double rows of sharp fish-like teeth.It came up on what they first took to be a huge neck,but as more and more of it emerged everyone k