For some five days they ran before a south.south.east ind， out of sight of all lands and seeing neither fish nor gull. hen they had a day when it rained hard till the afternoon. ustace lost two games of chess to Reepicheep and began to et like his old and disagreeable self again， and Edmund said e wished they could have gone to America with Susan. Then ucy looked out of the stern windows and said：
“Hello！ I do believe it’s stopping. And what‘s that？”
They all tumbled up to the poop at this and found that he rain had stopped and that Drinian， who was on watch，was also staring hard at something astern. Or rather， at several things. They looked a little like smooth rounded rocks， a whole line of them with intervals of about forty feet in between.
“But they can’t be rocks，” Drinian was saying， “becausethey weren‘t there five minutes ago.”
“And one’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.”
