he Sea People had noticed the Dawn Treader. The hoal of fish hard scattered in every direction： the People hemselves were coming up to find out the meaning of this ig， black thing which had come between them and the un. And now they were so close to the surface that if they ad been in air， instead of water， Lucy could have spoken to hem. There were men and women both. All wore coronets f some kind and many had chains of pearls. They wore noother clothes. Their bodies were the colour of old ivory， their hair dark purple. The King in the centre （no one could mistake him for anything but the King） looked proudly and fiercely into Lucy‘s face and shook a spear in his hand. His knights did the same. The faces of the ladies were filled with astonishment. Lucy felt sure they had never seen a ship or a human before.and how should they， in seas beyond the world’s End where no ship ever came？
“What are you staring at， Lu？” said a voice close besideher.
Lucy had been so absorbed in what she was seeing that she started at the sound， and when she turned she found that her arm had gone “dead” from leaning so long on the rail in one position. Drinian and Edmund were beside her.
“Look，” she said.
