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Dawn Treader

Also known as the Dawn Treader, Dawn Treader ship

Caspian X’s single-masted ship, built for the voyage to find his father’s seven lost friends. Its dragon-shaped prow carries the expedition across the Eastern Sea.

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The Voyage of the Dawn Treader25 cited passages⌄

Chapter II · paragraph 51…gilding, and round inside it ran a little bench. The name of the ship was Dawn Treader. She was only a little bit of a thing compared with one of our ships, or even with the cogs, dromonds, carracks…Open passage →
Chapter II · paragraph 52…uch. What did you get?" But as he didn't seem likely to get many marks on the Dawn Treader he now started a diary. This was the first entry.Open passage →
Chapter III · paragraph 11…the boat and send it back, and then we could walk across Felimath and let the Dawn Treader pick us up on the other side?"Open passage →
Chapter III · paragraph 18…d back they all turned and looked round. They were surprised at how small the Dawn Treader looked.Open passage →
Chapter IV · paragraph 47…n lands and seas behind them and the fullest preparations had to be made. The Dawn Treader was emptied and drawn on land by eight horses over rollers and every bit of her was gone over by the most skill…Open passage →
Chapter V · paragraph 1It was nearly three weeks after their landing that the Dawn Treader was towed out of Narrowhaven harbour. Very solemn farewells had been spoken and a great crowd had assembled to …Open passage →
Chapter V · paragraph 5…d landswomen--are a nuisance to the crew, began to obey. It was not easy. The Dawn Treader was listing terribly to starboard and the deck sloped like the roof of a house. She had to clamber round to the…Open passage →
Chapter VI · paragraph 39…beneath him in the moonlight. He could see the bay like a silver slab and the Dawn Treader lying at anchor and camp fires twinkling in the woods beside the beach. From a great height he launched himself…Open passage →
Chapter VII · paragraph 53…id Eustace. "I've heard that name mentioned several times since we joined the Dawn Treader. And I felt--I don't know what--I hated it. But I was hating everything then. And by the way, I'd like to apolo…Open passage →
Chapter VII · paragraph 59In a few days now the Dawn Treader, re-masted, re-painted, and well stored, was ready to sail. Before they embarked Caspian caused to be cut on a …Open passage →
Chapter VIII · paragraph 1Everyone was cheerful as the Dawn Treader sailed from Dragon Island. They had fair wind as soon as they were out of the bay and came early next morning t…Open passage →
Chapter VIII · paragraph 16… smaller: indeed on the starboard the Sea Serpent was now almost touching the Dawn Treader's side.Open passage →
Chapter IX · paragraph 1…elf 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…Open passage →
Chapter IX · paragraph 30…the boat for lost, went down to another part of the bay, and signalled to the Dawn Treader to stand in and take us aboard?"Open passage →
Chapter XI · paragraph 68…ossible to the shore to give their news to Rhince and the others on board the Dawn Treader, who were by now very anxious. And, of course, the Monopods went with them, bouncing like footballs and agreein…Open passage →
Chapter XI · paragraph 69…cut rude paddles for themselves, they all paddled about the bay and round the Dawn Treader, looking for all the world like a fleet of little canoes with a fat dwarf standing up in the extreme stern of e…Open passage →
Chapter XII · paragraph 22With a creak and a groan the Dawn Treader started to creep forward as the men began to row. Lucy, up in the fighting-top, had a wonderful view of the exa…Open passage →
Chapter XIII · paragraph 3…ea 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 la…Open passage →
Chapter XIII · paragraph 45…use never having read of such things or even heard of them till he joined the Dawn Treader made it worse for him than for the others.Open passage →
Chapter XIV · paragraph 26…were not so, it would break my heart not to go as near the World's End as the Dawn Treader will take us. But I am thinking of the crew. They signed on to seek the seven lords, not to reach the rim of th…Open passage →
Chapter XIV · paragraph 32"My lord," said the King to Drinian, "pray send two men back to the Dawn Treader with a message to the Lord Rhoop. Tell him that the last of his old shipmates are here asleep--a sleep without …Open passage →
Chapter XV · paragraph 5"It's our shadow!--the shadow of the Dawn Treader" said Lucy. "Our shadow running along on the bottom of the sea. That time when it got bigger it went over a hil…Open passage →
Chapter XV · paragraph 16…opped suddenly because the scene was changing. The Sea People had noticed the Dawn Treader. The shoal of fish had scattered in every direction: the People themselves were coming up to find out the meani…Open passage →
Chapter XVI · paragraph 2As things turned out they need hardly have bothered, for by this time the Dawn Treader was gliding over a part of the sea which seemed to be uninhabited. No one except Lucy saw anything more of the …Open passage →
Chapter XVI · paragraph 3…, without wind in her shrouds or foam at her bows, across a waveless sea, the Dawn Treader glided smoothly east. Every day and every hour the light became more brilliant and still they could bear it. No…Open passage →

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