"There is nothing of value or of great development about your ship that would be of any enlightenment to people of other planets besides, none of us care to enter the ship, since it has weapons of destruction in it."
This was true. We did have weapons in our ship, but we asked why that would make any difference for the weapons would not hurt them.
Their reply was that weapons of any kind belonged to a satanic power, and that satan might overpower their intelligence. They would rather stay away from him.
After telling us all this, they shook our hands in a very friendly manner and left us.
We are now being taken for a tour of the city. There are many buildings made of lava rock. The people here are of several races, but we cannot tell the difference between them as far as behaviorism is concerned, for there is no distinction. They are rather easygoing in all their ways and seem to have great respect for one another, also for us. There are towers in the city similar to our radar towers, yet they are not radar. We are told they are an interstellar communication system, when such communication is required.
Our reception here has been rather cool, we might say, in comparison with other places we have visited. It must be because of the ships of all of the planets meeting at this place. Or maybe it is our imagination, because of the rebuke we have so recently received from the Saturn pilots. Life here is different than in the city where we met the Martonian ship, for this city is the hub, or center, of interplanetary cargo exchange on the Moon.
But really we feel kind of let down and very small after the talks we have gotten from these different ones. So we have decided to return to our ship and start for our airfield where we first landed. This we did.
After we were in the air, the white chieftain said to us, "yes. All that those fellows gave was strange, wasn't it?"
We replied, "yes and no."
We didn't have much to say, but he seemed to read our minds. We decided on returning over a different route than we had come in on, more to the south. All of a sudden we remembered that on coming into the city we had wondered whether the big body of water on the other side of the mountain ridge was a large lake or an ocean. We were going to inquire about this while in the city, but due to our various experiences at the airfield we had forgotten all about it. So now the only thing left for us to do is to fly over it for a distance to get as good a view as possible and thus find out for ourselves.