Within ten thousand miles of the Earth we hit a very heavy cold wave and then we hit a hot one again, but not as hot as the previous one.
We are within three thousand miles of the Earth. Here is another cold wave and quite a number of meteors too, but they do not bother us this time. Our ship zig-zagged only once. The Earth's radio stations are coming in on our receiver quite definitely at this point.
At fifty miles from Earth the stations are coming stronger, more distinct.
We are fifteen thousand feet above our landing field in California from where we took off. Now we have lowered to one thousand feet and we see people like flies below us. We are coming in for a landing.
We have landed.
Everybody is trying to crowd towards the ship but are being kept away by soldiers. We are staying in the ship for a few minutes to get ourselves organized. While we are still here, before leaving the ship we want to say that whatever the fuel was that the Martonians supplied us with, it was more powerful than that which we had used when going to the Moon.
We have opened the door and are leaving the ship. A guard has been thrown around the ship to protect it until we return for we want to inspect it thoroughly as soon as we can.
Everyone is gathering around us trying to shake our hands and some of them are tearing our clothes off of us for souvenirs. We were almost blinded with the flash light bulbs from the different pictures they have taken. They are asking us to give a speech, to say something.
All we can say is that we are thankful for having landed safely.
A few government experts are accompanying us as we return to inspect our ship before leaving the field. A thorough inspection proves it to be in a first class condition and we also find that we have used less than half the amount of fuel on our return trip than we had used on our way to the Moon, proving that this Martonian fuel had the right punch in it. We have found, too, the spot where we believe was the strange instrument that the Martonians attached to our ship and by which they guided us through the perilous experiences which we have had on the way coming back to Earth. It must have been a repulsor or something of that kind which caused the ship to act as it did when coming in contact with the meteors. Because of the construction of our ship, through this instrument we were able to dodge the meteors but not able to divert their course as the ships of other planets are able to do. But whatever this instrument was, there is not a sign of it now. It really did disintegrate as they said it would. However, if it had not been for the instrument we would never have reached the Earth as we did. We had zig-zagged and the dips downward and up were done with great ease. We never knew that our ship could perform like that. Regardless what it was, we are thankful for it, for it brought us through safely.