The_Complete_Chronicles_of_Narnia_(volumes_1-7,_in_order_of_publication)

Reepicheep. Indeed it seemed to Eustace that the rapier as well as the pursuit was hot. It
might have been red-hot by the feel.
There was not much difficulty in settling the matter once Eustace realized that everyone
took the idea of a duel seriously and heard Caspian offering to lend him a sword, and
Drinian and Edmund discussing whether he ought to be handicapped in some way to
make up for his being so much bigger than Reepicheep. He apologized sulkily and went
off with Lucy to have his hand bathed and bandaged and then went to his bunk. He was
careful to lie on his side.
CHAPTER THREE
THE LONE ISLANDS
"LAND in sight," shouted the man in the bows.
Lucy, who had been talking to Rhince on the poop, came pattering down the ladder and
raced forward. As she went she was joined by Edmund, and they found Caspian, Drinian
and Reepicheep already on the forecastle. It was a coldish morning, the sky very pale and
the sea very dark blue with little white caps of foam, and there, a little way off on the
starboard bow, was the nearest of the Lone Islands, Felimath, like a low green hill in the
sea, and behind it, further off, the grey slopes of its sister Doorn.
"Same old Felimath! Same old Doorn," said Lucy, clapping her hands. "Oh - Edmund,
how long it is since you and I saw them last!"
"I've never understood why they belong to Narnia," said Caspian. "Did Peter the High
King conquer them?"
"Oh no," said Edmund. "They were Narnian before our time - in the days of the White
Witch."
(By the way, I have never yet heard how these remote islands became attached to the
crown of Narnia; if I ever do, and if the story is at all interesting, I may put it in some
other book.)
"Are we to put in here, Sire?" asked Drinian.
"1 shouldn't think it would be much good landing on Felimath," said Edmund. "It was
almost uninhabited in our days and it looks as if it was the same still. The people lived
mostly on Doorn and a little on Avra - that's the third one; you can't see it yet. They only
kept sheep on Felimath."