"No. Only that we awoke within it." Across the fire one chin lifted; the eyes which caught Travis' held a deep, smoldering anger. "This is more trickery of the Pinda-lick-o-yi, the White Eyes. Between us there has never been fair dealing. They have broken their promise as a man breaks a rotten stick, for their words are as rotten. And it was you, Fox, who brought us to listen to them." A stir about the circle, a murmur from the women. "And do I not also sit here with you in this strange wilderness?" he countered. "I do not understand," another of the men held out his hand, palm up, in a gesture of asking--"what has happened to us. We were in the old Apache world.... I, Jil-Lee, was riding with Cuchillo Negro as we went down to the taking of Ramos. And then I was here, in a broken ship and beside me a dead man who was once my brother. How did I come out of the past of our people into another world across the stars?" "Pinda-lick-o-yi tricks!" The first speaker spat into the fire. "It was the Redax, I think," Travis replied. "I heard Dr. Ashe discuss this. A new machine which could make a man remember not his own past, but the past of his ancestors. While we were on that ship we must have been under its influence, so we lived as our people lived a hundred years or more ago--" "And the purpose of such a thing?" Jil-Lee asked. "To make us more like our ancestors perhaps. It is part of what they told us at the project. To venture into these new worlds requires a different type of man than lives on Terra today. Traits we have forgotten are needed to face the dangers of wild places." "You, Fox, have been beyond the stars before, and you found there were such dangers to face?" "It is true. You have heard of the three worlds I saw when the ship from the old days took us off, unwilling, to the stars. Did you not all volunteer to pioneer in this manner so you could also see strange and new things?" "But we did not agree to be returned to the past in medicine dreams and be sent unknowingly into space!" Travis nodded. "Deklay is right. But I know no more than you why we were so sent, or why the ship crashed. We have found Dr. Ruthven's body in the cabin with that new installation. Only we have discovered nothing else which tells us why we were brought here. With the ship broken, we must stay." They were silent now, men and women alike. Behind them lay several days of activity, nights of exhausted slumber. Against the cliff wall lay the packs of supplies they had salvaged from the wreck. By mutual consent they had left the vicinity of the broken globe, following their old custom of speedily withdrawing from a place of death. "This is a world empty of men?" Jil-Lee wanted to know. "So far we have found only animal signs, and the _ga-n_ have not warned us of anything else----" "Those devil ones!" Again Deklay spat into the fire. "I say we should have no dealings with them. The _mba'a_ is no friend to the People."