Chapter 8, Two Narrow Escapes Summary

Within a day of leaving Dragon Island, the Dawn Treader comes to another small island that is uninhabited, but ruins of huts that suggest people lived there at some point. On this island, Reepicheep finds a tiny boat that is perfect for him and decides to keep it. Then the ship moves on. Less than a week later, after a time of constant rain, they find themselves being attacked by a sea-serpent. The serpent seems a novelty at first. However, when it takes notice of the ship, the serpent wraps its body around the ship and only through the quick thinking of Reepicheep are the travelers able to push the serpent form the ship before it tightens its hold and makes firewood of the entire ship.

A few days later, the ship comes within sight of land...