When we realized what had just been done, what our brilliant companion
and copilot had accomplished in this field, our rejoicing knew no
bounds. But, being Earthmen, we wished for still more. Now that we were
going to be able to send our Moon friends' voices through space and
have them heard on Earth, we wanted to also send their pictures, but we
doubted whether the small televising instruments we had with us would
send pictures from here to the Earth.
After fifteen minutes were up, contact was again established with the
Earth and the white chieftain was introduced. He spoke in his native
tongue to the peoples of the world. When he got through talking,
we asked him if his dancers would dance and chant as they had when
entertaining us earlier in the evening.
This they did.
After they finished, the black chieftain who had accompanied us on our
trip, was introduced and he, too, talked in his native tongue to the
peoples of the Earth.
Then each one of us talked to our Earth friends in our language,
which they understood. We told them of our plans for the next day
when we were going to make a flight over the northeast territory, and
we promised, since this was a success thus far, that we would try to
broadcast on our flight and give a description of the territory.
The Earth station with which our contact was made wanted to know
the exact time we were expecting to take off on this trip so they
could have all connections completed and ready for a round-the-world
broadcast of our trip direct from us.
They also told us that since the people on Earth have heard the
natives on the Moon actually talking to them over their radios, they no
longer doubt our findings. Further, they informed us that they tried
the television screens in different ways while they were receiving
our messages and they had succeeded partially in screening the white
chieftain and the dancers, not enough to know what this chieftain
looked like, but just a form which was descriptive, as we had given
before of his gown which he was wearing, and what appeared to be the
magic stone we had told them he had hanging on a gold chain from his
neck. They said the picture wasn't anything to brag about but yet
it was sufficient to prove our messages true. And they added that
the people on Earth were really excited. They seemed to be living in
another world right now.
After this was over and contact with the Earth had been broken, we
continued visiting with our friends, telling them a little about
living on the Earth and questioning them about many things concerning
conditions upon the Moon. This lasted until most of the long Moon night
was gone. Finally we went to sleep for the few remaining hours.
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