"We are going to break contact with the Earth for we are leaving the ship now."
Our chieftain and the group of men he has been talking with have finished their conversation and have turned to us. They grab our hands, shaking them vigorously, so I guess he must have told them about us. They are going to take us some place. We don't know where, but we are on our way.
We see a man here in a uniform, two of them. They are going to one of the ships here on the field.
We told the chieftain we would like to meet them and asked him if he could arrange an introduction.
He spoke to the airport officials, and they are taking us all over to this ship where the uniformed men are.
These ships don't look like the one we saw before, in the other city, which was the Martonian ship. They are different looking, different insignias. There are two types here. All of them measure around five hundred feet in length. Oh! there is one we see out there that is about a thousand feet long.
We have reached the ship for which we were headed and have been introduced to the pilots. Our curiosity about that big ship is consuming us so we are going to ask these men about it, if it is as large as it looks to us.
One of the pilots tells us that it is twelve hundred feet long and is capable of carrying seven hundred passengers besides the crew, with all provisions for three months cruising. He said he would like to take us into it to look it over, but it isn't his ship. The big ship belongs to the Venetians, while these pilots are from planet Jupiter.
We asked if the Martonian ships ever stopped here.
They replied, "Yes, but there are none present."