"There is nothing of value or of great development about your ship that
would be of any enlightenment to people of other planets besides, none
of us care to enter the ship, since it has weapons of destruction in
it."
This was true. We did have weapons in our ship, but we asked why that
would make any difference for the weapons would not hurt them.
Their reply was that weapons of any kind belonged to a satanic power,
and that satan might overpower their intelligence. They would rather
stay away from him.
After telling us all this, they shook our hands in a very friendly
manner and left us.
We are now being taken for a tour of the city. There are many buildings
made of lava rock. The people here are of several races, but we cannot
tell the difference between them as far as behaviorism is concerned,
for there is no distinction. They are rather easygoing in all their
ways and seem to have great respect for one another, also for us. There
are towers in the city similar to our radar towers, yet they are not
radar. We are told they are an interstellar communication system, when
such communication is required.
Our reception here has been rather cool, we might say, in comparison
with other places we have visited. It must be because of the ships
of all of the planets meeting at this place. Or maybe it is our
imagination, because of the rebuke we have so recently received from
the Saturn pilots. Life here is different than in the city where
we met the Martonian ship, for this city is the hub, or center, of
interplanetary cargo exchange on the Moon.
But really we feel kind of let down and very small after the talks we
have gotten from these different ones. So we have decided to return to
our ship and start for our airfield where we first landed. This we did.
After we were in the air, the white chieftain said to us, "yes. All
that those fellows gave was strange, wasn't it?"
We replied, "yes and no."
We didn't have much to say, but he seemed to read our minds. We decided
on returning over a different route than we had come in on, more to
the south. All of a sudden we remembered that on coming into the city
we had wondered whether the big body of water on the other side of the
mountain ridge was a large lake or an ocean. We were going to inquire
about this while in the city, but due to our various experiences at
the airfield we had forgotten all about it. So now the only thing left
for us to do is to fly over it for a distance to get as good a view as
possible and thus find out for ourselves.
This must be an ocean. It seems to take in a vast area of the Moon,
extending beyond our vision and there are ships floating on the waters,
different than any ocean vessels on Earth but they are ships and very
large at that.
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