St. Mary's College Bulletin (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 8, Ed. 1, May 1924 Page: 4 of 16
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We had landed in an open field-
. but by the time we managed to get out
of the debris and arm ourselves with'
automatics we were surrounded by TVlng
about a thousand tanned people wear-1 c
ing the skins of wild animals for Pf"
clothing. They were of the same ’
identical figure as the people living Ln
our planet. They seemed rather ap-
prehensive about approaching us and
with signs of friendliness an old man
wearing a number of bracelets about
his arm. motioned for us to follow him.
He led us straight through the crowd
into the city and a v—y '
it proved to be. There were quite a
few warriors in the city, armed with
knives and javelins and quite a few
wore any number of bracelets around
their arms and even legs, which 1
afterwards learned to be a
dignity or power.
One of the old men approached and
led us into a beautiful palace the very
acme of architecture. Here we were
left alone to explore this palace of
beauty in which were a great number
of paintings. While John and I were
discussing the friendly attitude of the
people towards us and their object in
bringing us to this place, several men
entered the room and with a very pro-
nounced bow motioned for us to
follow.
We were then taken into another:
room at the end of a wide hall, which '
to our surprise was filled with people.
At the farther end of the room were
two thrones side by side, to which we
were led. An old greyhaired man then
approached us and began reading a
peculiar numble of words from a stone
tablet. When he had finished he hade
us be seated and taking two wreaths
he first placed one on John's head and I
' then the other on my own. The whole ■
populace
before us.
in amazement,
mean? Of course
kings ; but why ?
Some time after
motors could not last that long. He
then told me that when we were once
out of the earth’s gravitation we could
travel at a much greater speed be-
cause of the lack of resistance due to
the earth’s gravitation.
The sun rose bright and clear next
morning and John’s whole household
including the colored gardener was
agog with excitement. John and I
were kept busy for some time storing
up supplies and necessaries for our
rather perilous adventure. Finally
with quite a prolonged “adieu” we
stepped into the plane not knowing
when we would ever again touch this
planet. In a few moments we had
taken flight. John then left the con-
trolling levers to me while he set the
compass which he had constructed to
determine our course of flight. He
then told me that in about an hour or
so we would break through the earth’s
line of gravity if we could keep up
our six miles a minute speed. Some-
time later we noticed the air was be-
coming' very rarefield and started the
oxygen generators working and kept
the plane airtight. I noticed that
although we were traveling at our
maximum speed the speedometer only
showed 200 miles per hour, showing
how great was the resistance due to
" . the gravity. In five or ten seconds
the register flew to 400 and stuck.
John and 1 relieved each other at
the levers day in and day out until
we lost all track of time. The awful
" speed at which we were traveling was
kept up for an indefinite length of
time. Mars was always in view ap-
proaching nearer and nearer until we
could discern mountains, trees, and
even buildings.
Mar’s two moons
to us and resembled
dirt with ruts and crevices in it.
then passed over the buildings we had
seen from a distance, and it was with
great difficulty that we managed to
land, which landing nearly cost us our
lives, and our plane was completely
smashed.
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