The_Complete_Chronicles_of_Narnia_(volumes_1-7,_in_order_of_publication)

"Sire," said Reepicheep, "this is a place with a curse on it. Let us get back on board at
once. And if I might have the honour of naming this island, I should call it Deathwater."
"That strikes me as a very good name, Reep," said Caspian, "though now that I come to
think of it, I don't know why. But the weather seems to be settling and I dare say Drinian
would like to be off. What a lot we shall have to tell him."
But in fact they had not much to tell for the memory of the last hour had all become
confused.
"Their Majesties all seemed a bit bewitched when they came aboard," said Drinian to
Rhince some hours later when the Dawn Treader was once more under sail and
Deathwater Island already below the horizon. "Something happened to them in that place.
The only thing I could get clear was that they think they've found the body of one of
these lords we're looking for."
"You don't say so, Captain," answered Rhince. "Well, that's three. Only four more. At
this rate we might be home soon after the New Year. And a good thing too. My baccy's
running a bit low. Good night, Sir."
CHAPTER NINE
THE ISLAND OF THE VOICES
AND now the winds which had so long been from the north-west began to blow from the
west itself and every morning when the sun rose out of the sea the curved prow of the
Dawn Treader stood up right across the middle of the sun. Some thought that the sun
looked larger than it looked from Narnia, but others disagreed. And they sailed and sailed
before a gentle yet steady breeze and saw neither fish nor gull- nor ship nor shore. And
stores began to get low again, and it crept into their hearts that perhaps they might have
come to a sea which went on for ever. But when the very last day on which they thought
they could risk continuing their eastward voyage dawned, it showed, right ahead between
them and the sunrise, a low land lying like a cloud.
They made harbour in a wide bay about the middle of the afternoon and landed. It was a
very different country from any they had yet seen. For when they had crossed the sandy
beach they found all silent and empty as if it were an uninhabited land, but before them
there were level lawns in which the grass was as smooth and short as it used to be in the
grounds of a great English house where ten gardeners were kept. The trees, of which
there were many, all stood well apart from one another, and there were no broken
branches and no leaves lying on the ground. Pigeons sometimes cooed but there was no
other noise.