Then, as you have pointed out, your limbs are longer and your chest smaller in proportion to the rest of the body; probably because, as you seem to say, your atmosphere is denser than ours, and we require ampler lungs to inhale the quantity of air necessary at each breath for the oxidation of the blood.

Then you were not dumb, and yet affected not to understand our language and to speak a different one.

No such creature could have existed in this planet without having been seen, described, and canvassed.

You did not, therefore, belong to us.

The story you told by signs was quickly apprehended, and as quickly rejected as an audacious impossibility.