So we two poor terrestrial castaways, lost in that wild-growing moon jungle, crawled in terror before the sounds that had come upon us. We crawled, as it seemed, a long time before we saw either Selenite or mooncalf, though we heard the bellowing2 and gruntulous noises of these latter continually drawing nearer to us. We crawled through stony3 ravines, over snow slopes, amidst fungi4 that ripped like thin bladders at our thrust, emitting a watery5 humour, over a perfect pavement of things like puff-balls, and beneath interminable thickets7 of scrub. And ever more helplessly our eyes sought for our abandoned sphere. The noise of the mooncalves would at times be a vast flat calf-like sound, at times it rose to an amazed and wrathy bellowing, and again it would become a clogged8 bestial9 sound, as though these unseen creatures had sought to eat and bellow1 at the same time.
Our first view was but an inadequate10 transitory glimpse, yet none the less disturbing because it was incomplete. Cavor was crawling in front at the time, and he first was aware of their proximity11. He stopped dead, arresting me with a single gesture.
A crackling and smashing of the scrub appeared to be advancing directly upon us, and then, as we squatted12 close and endeavoured to judge of the nearness and direction of this noise, there came a terrific bellow behind us, so close and vehement13 that the tops of the bayonet scrub bent14 before it, and one felt the breath of it hot and moist. And, turning about, we saw indistinctly through a crowd of swaying stems the mooncalf's shining sides, and the long line of its back loomed15 out against the sky.
Of course it is hard for me now to say how much I saw at that time, because my impressions were corrected by subsequent observation. First of all impressions was its enormous size; the girth of its body was some fourscore feet, its length perhaps two hundred. Its sides rose and fell with its laboured breathing. I perceived that its gigantic, flabby body lay along the ground, and that its skin was of a corrugated16 white, dappling into blackness along the backbone17. But of its feet we saw nothing. I think also that we saw then the profile at least of the almost brainless head, with its fat-encumbered neck, its slobbering omnivorous18 mouth, its little nostrils19, and tight shut eyes. (For the mooncalf invariably shuts its eyes in the presence of the sun.) We had a glimpse of a vast red pit as it opened its mouth to bleat20 and bellow again; we had a breath from the pit, and then the monster heeled over like a ship, dragged forward along the ground, creasing21 all its leathery skin, rolled again, and so wallowed past us, smashing a path amidst the scrub, and was speedily hidden from our eyes by the dense22 interlacings beyond. Another appeared more distantly, and then another, and then, as though he was guiding these animated23 lumps of provender24 to their pasture, a Selenite came momentarily into ken25. My grip upon Cavor's foot became convulsive at the sight of him, and we remained motionless and peering long after he had passed out of our range.
By contrast with the mooncalves he seemed a trivial being, a mere26 ant, scarcely five feet high. He was wearing garments of some leathery substance, so that no portion of his actual body appeared, but of this, of course, we were entirely27 ignorant. He presented himself, therefore, as a compact, bristling28 creature, having much of the quality of a complicated insect, with whip-like tentacles29 and a clanging arm projecting from his shining cylindrical30 body case. The form of his head was hidden by his enormous many-spiked helmet--we discovered afterwards that he used the spikes31 for prodding32 refractory33 mooncalves--and a pair of goggles34 of darkened glass, set very much at the side, gave a bird-like quality to the metallic35 apparatus36 that covered his face. His arms did not project beyond his body case, and he carried himself upon short legs that, wrapped though they were in warm coverings, seemed to our terrestrial eyes inordinately37 flimsy. They had very short thighs38, very long shanks, and little feet.
In spite of his heavy-looking clothing, he was progressing with what would be, from the terrestrial point of view, very considerable strides, and his clanging arm was busy. The quality of his motion during the instant of his passing suggested haste and a certain anger, and soon after we had lost sight of him we heard the bellow of a mooncalf change abruptly39 into a short, sharp squeal40 followed by the scuffle of its acceleration41. And gradually that bellowing receded42, and then came to an end, as if the pastures sought had been attained43.
We listened. For a space the moon world was still. But it was some time before we resumed our crawling search for the vanished sphere.
When next we saw mooncalves they were some little distance away from us in a place of tumbled rocks. The less vertical44 surfaces of the rocks were thick with a speckled green plant growing in dense mossy clumps45, upon which these creatures were browsing46. We stopped at the edge of the reeds amidst which we were crawling at the sight of them, peering out at then and looking round for a second glimpse of a Selenite. They lay against their food like stupendous slugs, huge, greasy47 hulls48, eating greedily and noisily, with a sort of sobbing49 avidity. They seemed monsters of mere fatness, clumsy and overwhelmed to a degree that would make a Smithfield ox seem a model of agility50. Their busy, writhing51, chewing mouths, and eyes closed, together with the appetising sound of their munching52, made up an effect of animal enjoyment54 that was singularly stimulating55 to our empty frames.
"Hogs56!" said Cavor, with unusual passion. "Disgusting hogs!" and after one glare of angry envy crawled off through the bushes to our right. I stayed long enough to see that the speckled plant was quite hopeless for human nourishment57, then crawled after him, nibbling58 a quill59 of it between my teeth.
Presently we were arrested again by the proximity of a Selenite, and this time we were able to observe him more exactly. Now we could see that the Selenite covering was indeed clothing, and not a sort of crustacean60 integument61. He was quite similar in his costume to the former one we had glimpsed, except that ends of something like wadding were protruding62 from his neck, and he stood on a promontory63 of rock and moved his head this way and that, as though he was surveying the crater64. We lay quite still, fearing to attract his attention if we moved, and after a time he turned about and disappeared.
We came upon another drove of mooncalves bellowing up a ravine, and then we passed over a place of sounds, sounds of beating machinery65 as if some huge hall of industry came near the surface there. And while these sounds were still about us we came to the edge of a great open space, perhaps two hundred yards in diameter, and perfectly66 level. Save for a few lichens67 that advanced from its margin68 this space was bare, and presented a powdery surface of a dusty yellow colour. We were afraid to strike out across this space, but as it presented less obstruction69 to our crawling than the scrub, we went down upon it and began very circumspectly70 to skirt its edge.
For a little while the noises from below ceased and everything, save for the faint stir of the growing vegetation, was very still. Then abruptly there began an uproar71, louder, more vehement, and nearer than any we had so far heard. Of a certainty it came from below. Instinctively72 we crouched73 as flat as we could, ready for a prompt plunge74 into the thicket6 beside us. Each knock and throb75 seemed to vibrate through our bodies. Louder grew this throbbing76 and beating, and that irregular vibration77 increased until the whole moon world seemed to be jerking and pulsing.
"Cover," whispered Cavor, and I turned towards the bushes.
At that instant came a thud like the thud of a gun, and then a thing happened--it still haunts me in my dreams. I had turned my head to look at Cavor's face, and thrust out my hand in front of me as I did so. And my hand met nothing! I plunged78 suddenly into a bottomless hole!
My chest hit something hard, and I found myself with my chin on the edge of an unfathomable abyss that had suddenly opened beneath me, my hand extended stiffly into the void. The whole of that flat circular area was no more than a gigantic lid, that was now sliding sideways from off the pit it had covered into a slot prepared for it.
Had it not been for Cavor I think I should have remained rigid79, hanging over this margin and staring into the enormous gulf80 below, until at last the edges of the slot scraped me off and hurled81 me into its depths. But Cavor had not received the shock that had paralysed me. He had been a little distance from the edge when the lid had first opened, and perceiving the peril82 that held me helpless, gripped my legs and pulled me backward. I came into a sitting position, crawled away from the edge for a space on all fours, then staggered up and ran after him across the thundering, quivering sheet of metal. It seemed to be swinging open with a steadily83 accelerated velocity84, and the bushes in front of me shifted sideways as I ran.
I was none too soon. Cavor's back vanished amidst the bristling thicket, and as I scrambled85 up after him, the monstrous86 valve came into its position with a clang. For a long time we lay panting, not daring to approach the pit.
But at last very cautiously and bit by bit we crept into a position from which we could peer down. The bushes about us creaked and waved with the force of a breeze that was blowing down the shaft87. We could see nothing at first except smooth vertical walls descending88 at last into an impenetrable black. And then very gradually we became aware of a number of very faint and little lights going to and fro.
For a time that stupendous gulf of mystery held us so that we forgot even our sphere. In time, as we grew more accustomed to the darkness, we could make out very small, dim, elusive89 shapes moving about among those needle-point illuminations. We peered amazed and incredulous, understanding so little that we could find no words to say. We could distinguish nothing that would give us a clue to the meaning of the faint shapes we saw.
"What can it be?" I asked; "what can it be?"
"The engineering!... They must live in these caverns91 during the night, and come out during the day."
"Cavor!" I said. "Can they be--that--it was something like--men?"
"_That_ was not a man."
"We dare risk nothing!"
"We dare do nothing until we find the sphere!"
"We _can_ do nothing until we find the sphere."
He assented92 with a groan93 and stirred himself to move. He stared about him for a space, sighed, and indicated a direction. We struck out through the jungle. For a time we crawled resolutely94, then with diminishing vigour95. Presently among great shapes of flabby purple there came a noise of trampling96 and cries about us. We lay close, and for a long time the sounds went to and fro and very near. But this time we saw nothing. I tried to whisper to Cavor that I could hardly go without food much longer, but my mouth had become too dry for whispering.
"Cavor," I said, "I must have food."
He turned a face full of dismay towards me. "It's a case for holding out," he said.
"But I _must_," I said, "and look at my lips!"
"I've been thirsty some time."
"If only some of that snow had remained!"
"It's clean gone! We're driving from arctic to tropical at the rate of a degree a minute...."
"The sphere!" he said. "There is nothing for it but the sphere."
We roused ourselves to another spurt98 of crawling. My mind ran entirely on edible99 things, on the hissing100 profundity101 of summer drinks, more particularly I craved102 for beer. I was haunted by the memory of a sixteen gallon cask that had swaggered in my Lympne cellar. I thought of the adjacent larder103, and especially of steak and kidney pie--tender steak and plenty of kidney, and rich, thick gravy104 between. Ever and again I was seized with fits of hungry yawning. We came to flat places overgrown with fleshy red things, monstrous coralline growths; as we pushed against them they snapped and broke. I noted105 the quality of the broken surfaces. The confounded stuff certainly looked of a biteable texture106. Then it seemed to me that it smelt107 rather well.
I picked up a fragment and sniffed108 at it.
"Cavor," I said in a hoarse109 undertone.
He glanced at me with his face screwed up. "Don't," he said. I put down the fragment, and we crawled on through this tempting110 fleshiness for a space.
"Cavor," I asked, "why not?"
"Poison," I heard him say, but he did not look round.
We crawled some way before I decided111.
"I'll chance it," said I.
He made a belated gesture to prevent me. I stuffed my mouth full. He crouched watching my face, his own twisted into the oddest expression. "It's good," I said.
"O Lord!" he cried.
He watched me munch53, his face wrinkled between desire and disapproval112, then suddenly succumbed113 to appetite and began to tear off huge mouthfuls. For a time we did nothing but eat.
The stuff was not unlike a terrestrial mushroom, only it was much laxer in texture, and, as one swallowed it, it warmed the throat. At first we experienced a mere mechanical satisfaction in eating; then our blood began to run warmer, and we tingled114 at the lips and fingers, and then new and slightly irrelevant115 ideas came bubbling up in our minds.
"Its good," said I. "Infernally good! What a home for our surplus population! Our poor surplus population," and I broke off another large portion. It filled me with a curiously116 benevolent117 satisfaction that there was such good food in the moon. The depression of my hunger gave way to an irrational118 exhilaration. The dread119 and discomfort120 in which I had been living vanished entirely. I perceived the moon no longer as a planet from which I most earnestly desired the means of escape, but as a possible refuge from human destitution121. I think I forgot the Selenites, the mooncalves, the lid, and the noises completely so soon as I had eaten that fungus122.
Cavor replied to my third repetition of my "surplus population" remark with similar words of approval. I felt that my head swam, but I put this down to the stimulating effect of food after a long fast. "Ess'lent discov'ry yours, Cavor," said I. "Se'nd on'y to the 'tato."
"Whajer mean?" asked Cavor. "'Scovery of the moon--se'nd on'y to the 'tato?"
I looked at him, shocked at his suddenly hoarse voice, and by the badness of his articulation123. It occurred to me in a flash that he was intoxicated124, possibly by the fungus. It also occurred to me that he erred125 in imagining that he had discovered the moon; he had not discovered it, he had only reached it. I tried to lay my hand on his arm and explain this to him, but the issue was too subtle for his brain. It was also unexpectedly difficult to express. After a momentary126 attempt to understand me--I remember wondering if the fungus had made my eyes as fishy127 as his--he set off upon some observations on his own account.
"We are," he announced with a solemn hiccup128, "the creashurs o' what we eat and drink."
He repeated this, and as I was now in one of my subtle moods, I determined129 to dispute it. Possibly I wandered a little from the point. But Cavor certainly did not attend at all properly. He stood up as well as he could, putting a hand on my head to steady I himself, which was disrespectful, and stood staring about him, quite devoid130 now of any fear of the moon beings.
I tried to point out that this was dangerous for some reason that was not perfectly clear to me, but the word "dangerous" had somehow got mixed with "indiscreet," and came out rather more like "injurious" than either; and after an attempt to disentangle them, I resumed my argument, addressing myself principally to the unfamiliar131 but attentive132 coralline growths on either side. I felt that it was necessary to clear up this confusion between the moon and a potato at once--I wandered into a long parenthesis133 on the importance of precision of definition in argument. I did my best to ignore the fact that my bodily sensations were no longer agreeable.
In some way that I have now forgotten, my mind was led back to projects of colonisation. "We must annex134 this moon," I said. "There must be no shilly-shally. This is part of the White Man's Burthen. Cavor--we are--hic--Satap--mean Satraps! Nempire Caesar never dreamt. B'in all the newspapers. Cavorecia. Bedfordecia. Bedfordecia--hic--Limited. Mean--unlimited! Practically."
Certainly I was intoxicated.
I embarked135 upon an argument to show the infinite benefits our arrival would confer on the moon. I involved myself in a rather difficult proof that the arrival of Columbus was, on the whole, beneficial to America. I found I had forgotten the line of argument I had intended to pursue, and continued to repeat "sim'lar to C'lumbus," to fill up time.
From that point my memory of the action of that abominable136 fungus becomes confused. I remember vaguely137 that we declared our intention of standing90 no nonsense from any confounded insects, that we decided it ill became men to hide shamefully138 upon a mere satellite, that we equipped ourselves with huge armfuls of the fungus--whether for missile purposes or not I do not know--and, heedless of the stabs of the bayonet scrub, we started forth139 into the sunshine.
Almost immediately we must have come upon the Selenites. There were six of them, and they were marching in single file over a rocky place, making the most remarkable140 piping and whining141 sounds. They all seemed to become aware of us at once, all instantly became silent and motionless, like animals, with their faces turned towards us.
For a moment I was sobered.
"Insects," murmured Cavor, "insects! And they think I'm going to crawl about on my stomach--on my vertebrated stomach!
"Stomach," he repeated slowly, as though he chewed the indignity142.
Then suddenly, with a sort of fury, he made three vast strides and leapt towards them. He leapt badly; he made a series of somersaults in the air, whirled right over them, and vanished with an enormous splash amidst the cactus143 bladders. What the Selenites made of this amazing, and to my mind undignified irruption from another planet, I have no means of guessing. I seem to remember the sight of their backs as they ran in all directions, but I am not sure. All these last incidents before oblivion came are vague and faint in my mind. I know I made a step to follow Cavor, and tripped and fell headlong among the rocks. I was, I am certain, suddenly and vehemently144 ill. I seem to remember, a violent struggle and being gripped by metallic clasps....
My next clear recollection is that we were prisoners at we knew not what depths beneath the moon's surface; we were in darkness amidst strange distracting noises; our bodies were covered with scratches and bruises145, and our heads racked with pain.
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