![]() Keeping a welcome space about me marched a cordon of stolid, scuttle-headed guards, who had joined us on our leaving the boat in which we had come along the channels of the Central Sea. Everywhere faces stared at me-blank, chitinous gapes and masks, eyes peering over tremendous olfactory developments, eyes beneath monstrous forehead plates and undergrowth of smaller creatures dodged and yelped, and helmet faces poised on sinuous, long-jointed necks appeared craning over shoulders and beneath armpits. The missing words of the following sentence are probably “the crowd.” There follows quite clearly: “grew ever denser as we drew near the palace of the Grand Lunar-if I may call a series of excavations a palace. ![]() The first message begins: “At last I am able to resume this” it then becomes illegible for a space, and after a time resumed in mid-sentence. The second came after an interval of a week. Cavor seems to have sent most of it without interference, but to have been interrupted in the concluding portion. ![]() THE PENULTIMATE message describes, with occasionally elaborate detail, the encounter between Cavor and the Grand Lunar, who is the ruler or master of the moon. ![]()
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