“How should I know？ Anyway I don‘t think I should bother about it if I were you. We’ve got to get there first. Do you know the way？”
“I know my way to Tashbaan. After that comes the desert. Oh， we‘ll manage the desert somehow， never fear. Why， we’ll be in sight of the Northern mountains then. Think of it！ To Narnia and the North！ Nothing will stop us then. But I‘d be glad to be past Tashbaan. You and I are safer away from cities.”
“Can’t we avoid it？”
“Not without going along way inland， and that would take us into cultivated land and main roads； and I wouldn‘t know the way. No， we’ll just have to creep along the coast. Up here on the downs we‘ll meet nothing but sheep and rabbits and gulls and a few shepherds. And by the way， what about starting？”