REEPICHEEP was the only person on board besides Drinian and the two Pevensies who had noticed the Sea People．He had dived in at once when he saw the Sea King shaking his spear，for he regarded this as a sort of threat or challenge and wanted to have the matter out there and then．The excitement of discovering that the water was now fresh had distracted his attention，and before he remembered the Sea People again Lucy and Drinian had taken him aside and warned him not to mention what he had seen．

As 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 People，and even she had only one short glimpse． All morning on the following day they sailed in fairly shallow water and the bottom was weedy．Just before midday Lucy saw a large shoal of fishes grazing on the weed．They were all eating steadily and all moving in the same direction．“Just like a flock of sheep，”thought Lucy．Suddenly she saw a little Sea Girl of about her own age in the middle of them—a quiet，lonely-looking girl with a sort of crook in her hand．Lucy felt sure that this girl must be a shepherdess—or perhaps a fish-herdess—and that the shoal was really a flock at pasture．Both the fishes and the girl were quite close to the surface．And just as the girl，gliding in the shallow water，and Lucy，leaning over the bulwark，came opposite to one another，the girl looked up and stared straight into Lucy’s face．Neither could speak to the other and in a moment the Sea Girl dropped astern