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sappointed.They came to some rocks which they had to climb and from the top they could see a fair way ahead and-“Oh bother!”said Edmund,“it’s no good.We shan’t be able to get to those other woods at all.We’re on an island!”
It was true.At this point the channel between them and the opposite coast was only about thirty or forty yards wide; but they could now see that this was its narrowest place.After that,their own coast bent round to the right again and they could see open sea between it and the mainland.It was obvious that they had already come much more than halfway round the island.
“Look!”said Lucy suddenly.“What’s that?”She pointed to a long,silvery,snake-like thing that lay across the beach.
“A stream! A stream!”shouted the others,and,tired as they were,they lost no time in clattering down the rocks and racing to the fresh water.They knew that the stream would be better to drink farther up,away from the beach,so they went at once to the spot where it came ou