No, really I don't want to land, Lenox; let's go on." They went on at a speed of about a hundred miles an hour, and, as they progressed southward, both the atmosphere and the landscape rapidly changed.

The air grew clearer and the clouds lighter.

Land and sea were more sharply divided, and both teeming with life.

The seas still swarmed with serpentine monsters of the saurian type, and the firmer lands were peopled by huge animals, mastodons, bears, giant tapirs, mylodons, deinotheriums, and a score of other species too strange for them to recognise by any Earthly likeness, which roamed in great herds through the vast twilit forests and over boundless plains covered with grey-blue vegetation.
Here, too, they found mountains for the first time on Saturn; mountains steep-sided, and many Earth-miles high.
As the _Astronef_ was skirting the side of one of these ranges Redgrave allowed it to approach more closely than he had so far done to the surface of Saturn.
"I shouldn't wonder if we found some of the higher forms of life up here," he said.

"If there is any kind of being that is going to develop some day into the human race of Saturn it would naturally get up here." "I should hope so," said Zaidie, "and just as far as possible out of the reach of those unutterable horrors on the equator.