"We have risen again to forty thousand feet and as we cross the ridge of mountains beyond the valley in which we just found the village, we see another tall peak ahead of us glistening brilliantly but it doesn't seem to be snow. It may be ice, a glacier. Bob is heading that way and he has to keep rising to get above it. We are flying at fifty-two thousand feet altitude and are only three thousand feet above that peak. It is a glacier! That ice certainly looks cold. Just looking at it makes us cold here in the ship. The temperature graph gives a reading of eighty-eight degrees below zero. This district must correspond with our polar regions on Earth." "Bob has swung slightly east but our compass indicates south by east now instead of north as it has been, although we have not made such a turn. We must have flown completely over the top of the Moon and are going down the other side. We are two thousand miles from our starting point and the graph has been showing gradually warming atmosphere as we have got farther away from that glacier peak." "The territory on this side is very similar to that we flew over before reaching the glacier, only we haven't seen any other villages clinging to the sides of the mountains or lying on the floor of the valleys. We have seen a couple of rivers dropping over the sides of mountains on this side but they seem to have their source up in the snowcaps and branch off in various directions. There have been no other beautiful falls that we have seen on this side such as we found before reaching the glacier." "Now at twenty-five hundred miles from our home base, the Moon surface beneath us has definitely changed. The mountains are much lower but still rugged, with fertile, rolling valleys lying between the ranges. The only snowcaps we can see are at a great distance behind us. The atmosphere is much warmer, the graph indicating a temperature of sixty degrees above zero and Bob has lowered so that we are flying at ten thousand feet." "We see water ahead of us, a lot of it like another lake or maybe this might be an ocean. This body of water stretches out until it seems to drop right over the horizon. As we cross the last ridge of mountains before reaching the water, we see a wide sandy beach stretching along the water's edge. Bob is turning and flying above the beach for we don't want to start flying over this body of water either, at least not until we find out what it is and how large." "Not far ahead of us and right on the beach are two rows of buildings, all in line and built in box-type design. This must be a resort or playground of some kind for we see people playing in the sands and some are swimming in the water. This is certainly a picturesque spot with the vast body of water sparkling in the sunlight, the people enjoying the relaxation of the beach and the swimming and in the background the low ridge of mountains over which we last flew, that seem to slope right down into the water."