"Where is the sea?" asked Duare.
"I do not know," I admitted.
Only at sunrise and at sunset, for a few minutes, is it possible to differentiate between the points of the compass on Venus; then the direction of the sun is faintly indicated by a slightly intensified light along the eastern or the western horizon.
And now the sun was rising at our left, when it should have been upon our right were we going in the direction that I believed the ocean to be.
My heart sank in my breast, for I knew that we were lost.
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Duare, who had been watching my face intently, must have read the truth in the despair of my expression.
"You do not know where the sea lies?" she asked.
I shook my head. "No."