“A raft would be smashed.”
“Lifeboats swamped.”
“People jammed on the rocks.”
“Pounded into jelly-fish.”
“But it ought to have a name? Is it Cape Horn?”
“I don’t think so, that’s the other way round the world; we’re more the India way, I think.”
“Perhaps it’s Gibraltar.”
“As if we shouldn’t know Gibraltar!”
“Of course we should, I forgot. Look! There’s a little island and a passage—a channel. Mind how you steer—”
“It’s Scylla and Charybdis,” said Bevis. “I can see quite plain.”