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However, light was soon to break. I could see no sign of the entrance he had spoken of, and no wonder, for it is only eighty yards wide, though it leads to a fiord thirty miles long. All at once we were jolting in a tumble of sea, and the channel grudgingly disclosed itself, stealing between marshes and meadows and then broadening to a mere, as at Ekken.
I'm coming down to help. And down he came, leaving the Dulcibella to her own devices. 'I think I'll go on deck, I said. 'Why in the world couldn't you lunch comfortably at Ekken and save this infernal pandemonium of a picnic? Where's the yacht going to meanwhile? And how are we to lunch on that slanting table? I'm covered with varnish and mud, and ankle-deep in crockery. There goes. the beer!
That must be Ekken on the port bow, peering under the sail, 'where the trees run in. I say, do you mind looking at the chart? He tossed it over to me. I spread it out painfully, for it curled up like a watch-spring at the least slackening of pressure. I was not familiar with charts, and this sudden trust reposed in me, after a good deal of neglect, made me nervous.
We were following the inward trend of a small bay towards a cleft in the low shore. 'That's Ekken Sound, said Davies; 'let's look into it, and a minute or two later we were drifting through a dainty little strait, with a peep of open water at the end of it.
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