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第1064章 The Voyage of the Dawn Treader(189)

That evening all the Narnians dined upstairs with the Magician, and Lucy noticed how different the whole top floor looked now that she was no longer afraid of it. Theysterious signs on the doors were still mysterious but ow looked as if they had kind and cheerful meanings, nd even the bearded mirror now seemed funny rather han frightening. At dinner everyone had by magic what veryone liked best to eat and drink, and after dinner the agician did a very useful and beautiful piece of magic. He id two blank sheets of parchment on the table and asked rinian to give him an exact account of their voyage up to ate: and as Drinian spoke, everything he described came ut on the parchment in fine clear lines till at last each heet was a splendid map of the Eastern Ocean, showing alma, Terebinthia, the Seven Isles, the Lone Islands, ragon Island, Burnt Island, Deathwater, and the land of he Duffers itself, all exactly the right sizes and in the right ositions. They were the first maps ever made of those seas nd better than any that have been made since without agic. For on these, though the towns and mountains oked at first just as they would on an ordinary map, when he Magician lent them a magnifying glass you saw that hey were perfect little pictures of the real things, so that ou could see the very castle and slave market and streets Narrowhaven, all very clear though very distant, like hings seen through the wrong end of a telescope. The only rawback was that the coastline of most of the islands was complete, for the map showed only what Drinian had seen ith his own eyes. When they were finished the Magician ept one himself and presented the other to Caspian: it still angs in his Chamber of Instruments at Cair Paravel. But he Magician could tell them nothing about seas or lands urther east. He did, however, tell them that about seven ears before a Narnian ship had put in at his waters and that he had on board the Lords Revilian, Argoz, Mavramorn and hoop: so they judged that the golden man they had seening in Deathwater must be the Lord Restimar.