“Do you really!” broke in Godfrey, ironically, “blessed memory! and is this haven of rest at hand?” “Yes!” replied Dennis, laughing, “it is close before us and we shall be there in a minute!” Slowly the vessel skimmed over a city, then a village, and then a few straggling houses, and beside the crater of an extinct volcano lay a long building having a roof of some glittering metal which was unknown on Earth and which shone strangely in the peculiar light cast by two differently coloured moons. Coming to a stand above the building they saw many people gathering together on the ground below, and Werran, as usual, spoke to them. It was plain that they were expected, and after a brief conversation Werran returned to tell them that they had at last reached their goal and their difficulties were now at rest, for here, the only place on the whole surface of Jupiter, were cultivated the germs which were wafted on ether to Bona, the floral paradise of the solar system. Godfrey was now a different being; all banter was put aside for the nonce in the seriousness of the work he had undertaken, and full of his subject, he kept Werran busy asking and translating innumerable questions and answers relating to the life-history of the little creature he had come to cultivate. He and Werran then landed and entered the building, but the air was too oppressive for a long stay, and after a matter of ten or fifteen minutes they were obliged to return to the ship for recovery and rest, after which they resumed their work, Werran becoming quite as interested in the small organisms as Godfrey himself. This caused them to be constantly entering and leaving the ship, and Godfrey soon enlisted the services of the three others, so that before very long all five were working, each with fixed duties, and matters progressed so well that Godfrey was in high spirits. Fortunately, also, as the days wore on, they became more and more accustomed to the air until they were able soon to remain in it for several hours at a time, although, remembering the adventure in Mars, the vessel was never left without one or other of the owners in charge, well-disposed as the Jovians appeared. In the garden of this place, called “Kulametik” was a strange beast, like the one that had caused the death of so many of the Jovians, and, on inquiry, they gained much information about this curious animal, which made them feel sorry they had imputed wrong motives to the natives they had met on their first visit.