Here we asked if any of them ever crashed through mechanical breakdowns.
Their response was, that so far as they knew, all such ships were foolproof. They continued that some sixty thousand years previously, when interstellar space travelling was first undertaken, there had been many crashes, but all that has long ago been overcome and now there is never a crash.
These pilots from Jupiter are around five feet, six inches tall and very alert.
We asked them if they were the general height of the people on Jupiter.
They replied that the majority of the people on their planet were around five feet, eleven inches to six feet tall, but for ships they had a uniform law of picking men of their height. Of course, all of this was given to us by the white chieftain through signs, for he could understand what these men from Jupiter were saying. He acted as our interpreter, and we must say right here and now that one thing we marvelled at, these native people, like the chieftain, were very capable in transferring information through the sign language. And we ourselves didn't do so bad at understanding it, either.
We are about to get a surprise, I see. All eyes are turned to four men coming our way. They are very tall, we would say they are about six feet, six inches.
These men have now reached our group and are shaking hands with the two Jupiter pilots with whom we have been visiting. Our Jupiter friends seem to be telling them about us.
These men also are wearing uniforms but their insignia is different than all the others we have seen. It is of three wings in the center of which is a body that looks like a large bird, yet represents a ship, while the insignia on their caps is of our solar system with the sun and all the planets with their satellites.
The new arrivals speak a different language than any we have previously heard, yet the pilots from Jupiter understand it, as also does our chieftain friend, who tells us that these men are Venetians, pilots of the big ship.
Being thus introduced, the Venetians shake our hands warmly. They are very friendly. In appearance they look more like men out of a dream than humans like ourselves. Their body structure is like ours, yet the texture of their skin is almost like that of a baby. Their hands are long and slender, rather delicate in structure, more like a woman's than a man's, yet their grasp is firm and strong. They are blondes with a very, very rosy complexion. Their eyes are blue with a cast of purple in them, very penetrating while at the same time expressing a sparkle of joyous enthusiasm. Their forms as a whole are exquisite for males. They really are more beautiful, if we may use this word, than the average beautiful woman on Earth. This is an out of the ordinary conception of a male. From what we can get of the conversation they are carrying on with the Jupiter pilots, they seem to be very alert and brilliant.