They moved again and the sun rose. There were two twilights in one.
All this astonished Tito greatly.
They drove further and further, engulfing themselves in the day and ocean. Nevertheless Tito’s watch indicated quarter past nine at night.
A few moments afterward North America appeared in the seas. Tito saw in passing, the eagerness of men; how they tilled the fields, bustled in the streets of cities, and skirted the coast in vessels.
In one part he distinguished a great cloud of dust. It was a battle. In another direction, Death indicated to him a grand religious ceremony, dedicated to a tree, the idol of that town. Farther off he showed him two young savages alone in a wood, gazing with love upon each other.
Very soon the earth again disappeared, and they entered the Pacific Ocean.
Thousands of other islands appeared before their eyes in all directions. In each one of these were different religions and customs. And what a variety of costumes, occupations and ceremonies!
So they reached China where the day was breaking.
This daylight was twilight for our travellers.
Other stars, different from those which they had seen before, ornamented the celestial dome.