The_Complete_Chronicles_of_Narnia_(volumes_1-7,_in_order_of_publication)

THE THREE SLEEPERS
THE wind never failed but it grew gentler every day till at length the waves were little
more than ripples, and the ship glided on hour after hour almost as if they were sailing on
a lake. And every night they saw that there rose in the east new constellations which no
one had ever seen in Narnia and perhaps, as Lucy thought with a mixture of joy and fear,
no living eye had seen at all. Those new stars were big and bright and the nights were
warm. Most of them slept on deck and talked far into the night or hung over the ship's
side watching the luminous dance of the foam thrown up by their bows.
On an evening of startling beauty, when the sunset behind them was so crimson and
purple and widely spread that the very sky itself seemed to have grown larger, they came
in sight of land on their starboard bow. It came slowly nearer and the light behind them
made it look as if the capes and headlands of this new country were all on fire. But
presently they were sailing along its coast and its western cape now rose up astern of
them, black against the red sky and sharp as if it was cut out of cardboard, and then they
could see better what this country was like. It had no mountains but many gentle hills
with slopes like pillows. An attractive smell came from it - what Lucy called "a dim,
purple kind of smell", which Edmund said (and Rhince thought) was rot, but Caspian
said, "I know what you mean."
They sailed on a good way, past point after point, hoping to find a nice deep harbour, but
had to content themselves in the end with a wide and shallow bay. Though it had seemed
calm out at sea there was of course surf breaking on the sand and they could not bring the
Dawn Treader as far in as they would have liked. They dropped anchor a good way from
the beach and had a wet and tumbling landing in the boat. The Lord Rhoop remained on
board the Dawn Treader. He wished to see no more islands. All the time that they
remained in this country the sound of the long breakers was in their ears.
Two men were left to guard the boat and Caspian led the others inland, but not far
because it was too late for exploring and the light would soon go. But there was no need
to go far to find an adventure. The level valley which lay at the head of the bay showed
no road or track or other sign of habitation. Underfoot was tine springy turf dotted here
and there with a low bushy growth which Edmund and Lucy took for heather. Eustace,
who was really rather good at botany; said it wasn't, and he was probably right; but it was
something of very much the same kind.
When they had gone less than a bowshot from the shore, Drinian said, "Look! What's
that?" and everyone stopped.
"Are they great trees?" said Caspian.
"Towers, l think," said Eustace.
"It might be giants," said Edmund in a lower voice.