The result was rather distressing to us. They first explained
the matter fully to Ellador, as she was the one who purposed
visiting the Rest of the World. To Celis they said nothing. She
must not be in any way distressed, while the whole nation waited
on her Great Work.
Finally Jeff and I were called in. Somel and Zava were there,
and Ellador, with many others that we knew.
They had a great globe, quite fairly mapped out from the
small section maps in that compendium of ours. They had the
different peoples of the earth roughly outlined, and their status
in civilization indicated. They had charts and figures and estimates,
based on the facts in that traitorous little book and what they had
learned from us.
Somel explained: "We find that in all your historic period,
so much longer than ours, that with all the interplay of services,
the exchange of inventions and discoveries, and the wonderful
progress we so admire, that in this widespread Other World of yours,
there is still much disease, often contagious.
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