Having made a raft from wood taken from the giant mushroom forest,
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with rigging consisting of a mast made of two staves lashed
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together, a yard made of a third, and a sail borrowed from their
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stock of rugs, they set sail from the harbour - Port Grauben,
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named after Axel's fiancee. With a north-westerly wind propelling
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them along at about three miles an hour, silvery beams of light,
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reflected here and there by drops of spray, produced luminous
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points in the eddy created by the raft. Soon all land was lost to
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view. Five days out to sea, they witnessed a terrifying battle
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between two sea monsters. One having the snout of a porpoise, the
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head of a lizard, and teeth of a crocodile - an Ichthyosaurus. And
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the other, the mortal enemy of the first, a serpent with a
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turtle's shell, the Plesiosaurus.
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Narration 5
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| Rick Wakeman |
