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were left below at the oars were ordered on deck and fully armed and posted in their battle stations with swords drawn．Lucy and two archers were posted on the fighting top with bows bent and arrows on the string．Rynelf was in the bows with his line ready to take soundings．Reepicheep， Edmund，Eustace and Caspian，glittering in mail，were with him． Drinian took the tiller．
“And now，in Aslan’s name，forward ！”cried Caspian．“A slow，steady stroke．And let every man be silent and keep his ears open for orders．”
With a creak and a groan the Dawn Treader started to creep forward as the men began to row．Lucy，up in the fighting top， had a wonderful view of the exact moment at which they entered the darkness．The bows had already disappeared before the sunlight had left the stern．She saw it go．At one minute the gilded stern， the blue sea，and the sky，were all in broad daylight：next minute the sea and sky had vanished，the stern lantern-which had been hardly noticeable before-was the only t
