Our passengers have left the ship and we are following them out. As
we do, the leaders of the two tribes grab us by the hands and start
talking with excitement to their own people. From what we can get, they
seem to be telling them all about the trip, with much enthusiasm and
exuberance.
This has continued for several hours.
Now it is over. The two chieftains, the one of the dark race and the
one of the light race, shake hands with each other and all the people
of both tribes gather together. With one chieftain on each side of us,
followed by all the tribespeople, we start walking in the direction
of the little lake again. When we reach the brush-forest that we had
previously broken a path through, we find they have their own path.
It is a wide open thoroughfare which we would have seen when we were
here first had not the opening to it been camouflaged, made to look
as though it was solid with brush. The natives are removing this
camouflage in order for the procession to get down to the lake.
After reaching the lake, the white boys go into the water taking with
them little gadgets which we are permitted to examine. These are made
of wood or the crotch of a limb with a very sharp point. With them they
catch fish at an amazing speed. In a very short time they have caught
a large quantity of fish. Then some of the people start to prepare a
feast.
During these preparations messengers are dispatched somewhere but we
don't know to where.
Realizing that these people are all friendly towards us, we are taking
more liberty in openly observing them and what they are wearing.
During all the time we have been with them, we have noticed how very
intelligent these Moon people really are in all their ways.
On examining the garments of the leaders we find the cloth they are
made of is a surprisingly fine quality. In fact the clothing all the
people are wearing is made of some very fine cloth, a sort of fiber
yet finer than the silken cloth used by people of the Earth.
The ornaments which they are wearing, bracelets and trinkets of many
types, are of a fine quality. They are all of very intricate designs.
The ornaments are made of gold and platinum and on close examination
they seem to have some iron in them for sturdiness, yet alloyed so well
that it does not tarnish, rust, nor anything that iron might do. Inlaid
in these ornaments or trinkets are quite a number of very large gems, a
considerable amount of diamonds and still more precious than diamonds
is a stone that is fully transparent, with a very, very moonlike cast.
This stone gives off regular prism colors. We are made to understand
this color radiation is the same at all times, in the brightest light
or in the darkest of darkness.
We would like to have a stone like this for it seems to possess magic
powers of some kind, but the white chieftain is the only one wearing
them while everybody is wearing the diamonds and the other types of
gems.
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