Nor is it at all impossible, Braid-Beard, that beyond their land may exist other regions, of which those strangers know not; peopled with races something like us Mardians; but perhaps with more exalted faculties, and organs that we lack.

They may have some better seeing sense than ours; perhaps, have fins or wings for arms." "This seems not like sanity," muttered Mohi.
"A most crazy hypothesis, truly," said Media.
"And are all inductions vain ?" cried Babbalanja.

"Have we mortals naught to rest on, but what we see with eyes?
Is no faith to be reposed in that inner microcosm, wherein we see the charted universe in little, as the whole horizon is mirrored in the iris of a gnat?
Alas! alas! my lord, is there no blest Odonphi?
no Astrazzi ?" "His devil's uppermost again, my lord," cried Braid-Beard.
"He's stark, stark mad!" sighed Yoomy.
"Ay, the moon's at full," said Media.

"Ho, paddlers! we depart.".