surprised myself; it seems always to me as I compare it with the

day that I first set foot upon it from the deck of the Sari that

only a miracle could have worked the change that has taken place."

"It is a miracle," I said; it is nothing short of a miracle to

transplant all the wondrous possibilities of the twen-tieth century

back to the Stone Age. It is a miracle to think that only five

hundred miles of earth separate two epochs that are really ages

and ages apart.

"It is stupendous, Perry! But still more stupendous is the power

that you and I wield in this great world. These people look upon

us as little less than supermen. We must show them that we are

all of that.

"We must give them the best that we have, Perry."

"Yes," he agreed; "we must. I have been thinking a great deal

lately that some kind of shrapnel shell or ex-plosive bomb would

be a most splendid innovation in their warfare. Then there are

breech-loading rifles and those with magazines that I must hasten

to study out and learn to reproduce as soon as we get settled down

again; and--"

"Hold on, Perry!" I cried. "I didn't mean these sorts of things

at all. I said that we must give them the best we have. What we

have given them so far has been the worst. We have given them war

and the munitions of war. In a single day we have made their wars

infinitely more terrible and bloody than in all their past ages

they have been able to make them with their crude, primitive weapons.

"In a period that could scarcely have exceeded two outer earthly

hours, our fleet practically annihilated the largest armada of native

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