[Across the Zodiac by Percy Greg]@TWC D-Link bookAcross the Zodiac CHAPTER IX - MANNERS AND CUSTOMS 23/26
The whole is deodorised by an exceedingly simple process, and, whether in town or country, carried away daily and applied to its natural use in fertilising the soil.
Our practice of throwing away, where it is an obvious and often dangerous nuisance, material so valuable in its proper place, seemed to my Martial friends an inexplicable and almost incredible absurdity. As we returned, Esmo told me that he had been in communication with the Campta, who had desired that I should visit him with the least possible delay. "This," he said, "will hurry us in matters where I at any rate should have preferred a little delay.
The seat of Government is by a direct route nearly six thousand miles distant, and you will have opportunity of travelling in all the different ways practised on this planet.
A long land-journey in our electric carriages, with which you are not familiar, is, I think, to be avoided.
The Campta would wish to see your vessel as well as yourself; but, on the whole, I think it is safer to leave it where it is.
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