The land was lit with a light such as that of the moon, only intensified and of many colours.
Indeed looking up, I saw that above us floated three moons, each of them bigger than our own at the full, and gathered that here it was night.
We came to a house set amid scented gardens and having in front of it terraces of flowers.

It seemed not unlike my own house at home, but I took little note of it, because of a woman who sat upon the verandah, if I may call it so.

She was clad in garments of white silk fastened about her middle with a jewelled girdle.

On her neck also was a collar of jewels.

I forget the colour; indeed this seemed to change continually as the light from the different moons struck when she moved, but I think its prevailing tinge was blue.