I gather from what you have told me that on Earth there are many nations very imperfectly known to one another, with different dress, language, and manners.

This planet is now inhabited by a single race, all speaking the same tongue, using much the same customs, and differing from one another in form and size much less widely than (I understand) do men upon your Earth.

There you might have been taken for a visitor from some strange and unexplored country.

Here it was clear that you were not one of our race, and yet it was inconceivable what else you could be.

We have no giants; the tallest skeleton preserved in our museums is scarcely a hand's breadth taller than myself, and does not, of course, approach to your stature.