At night a couple of dances took place in adjacent boarding-houses, which banished sleep until a great uproar arose, ending in the partisans of one house cleaning out the occupants of the other, thus reducing things to silence.

We knew then that we had returned to earth.

We had dropped, as it were, from another planet, and would soon, too soon, be treading the flinty city streets, and, divorced from Nature, become once more the bond-slaves of civilization.
Conclusion.
I have thought it most convenient to the reader to unite with the text, as it passes in description from place to place, what knowledge of the agricultural and other resources of the country was obtainable at the time.

The reader is probably weary of description by this time; but, should he make a similar journey, I am convinced he would not weary of the reality.

Travellers, however, differ strangely in perception.