In the long nights of that last winter he resumed his narrative again. He seemed to have difficulty in finding English expression for what he had to tell, but I encouraged him in our wanderings around the fiord to repeat and interpret and explain what he had told us. Gradually the narrative found a more intelligible language, and I was able to jot down notes that I understood. I have done my best to throw them together into the form that they ultimately found in his story as he told it to us sitting together in our hut. But I am still puzzled and sometimes confused by many of the ideas and feel that they have baffled my best skill to put them into our tongue. Some of his descriptions awakened in us a sense of incredulity, and others shook our old world of beliefs to its foundations. But we were drawn to him by the noble and ingenuous way in which he told us all; indeed, were often fascinated and blinded as we listened. We could not but accept his story as the highest truth we could hear in this world, and yet we were struck dumb by its strangeness. Much of our bewilderment we attributed to the difficulty of understanding his strange speech, and more to our own ignorance of the intricate problems that have troubled sages. We have kept back this latter part of his story for a time in order that by study and care we might make it more intelligible and more suited to the thoughts of Christendom. But we have to acknowledge ourselves still baffled by the impossible task of making this road through difficult regions plain and easy, and so have resolved to issue the narrative with all its faults upon it. GODFREY SWEVEN. GLOSSARY AILOMO--The astrobiological families. AIROLAN--A sensometer, or instrument for finding the personal equation of a man. ALCLIROLAN--Radiographic cinematograph; an instrument combining microscope, camera _in vacuo_, and electric power. ALFARENE--Oxygen shrub. AMMERLIN--Historoscope. CIRALAISON--Museum of terrors. CLEVAMOLAN--Combination of telescope and makrakoust, or distance-hearer. CLIMOLAN--Earth-sensor. CLIROLAN--Instrument that combines electro-microscopy and photography. CLIROLANIC--Infinitesimally microscopic. CORFALEENA--Vacuum-engine car. DOOMALONA--The hill of farewells. DUOMOVAMOLAN--Instrument that interprets the music of the cosmos. ERFALEENA--Anti-gravitation flight-car. FALEENA--Ship of the air. FARFALEENA--Electric faleena. FAROSAN--Aroma-recorder. FIALUME--The valley of memories. FILAMMU--The will-telegraph. FIRLA--The electric sense. FIRLALAIN--The firlamaic department of Oomalefa. FIRLAMAI--The arts of the electric sense. FIRLAMAIC--Belonging to the arts of the firla. FIRLAMAN--A musical instrument that appeals to the firla. FLORAMO--The botanical families. FLORONAL--The tree of life.