Besides, as there's air and water here, there's no telling but there may be inhabitants of sorts such as we shouldn't care to meet." He took her hand, and to Murgatroyd's great relief they went back to the vessel.
Redgrave then raised the _Astronef_ a couple of hundred feet and, by directing the repulsive force against the mountain walls, developed just sufficient energy to keep them moving at about twelve miles an hour.
They began to cross the plain with their searchlights flashing out in all directions.

They had scarcely gone a mile before the head-light fell upon a moving form half walking, half crawling among some stunted brown-leaved bushes by the side of a broad, stagnant stream.
"Look!" said Zaidie, clasping his arm, "is that a gorilla, or--no, it _can't_ be a man." The light was turned full upon the object.

If it had been covered with hair it might have passed for some strange type of the ape tribe, but its skin was smooth and of a livid grey.

Its lower limbs were evidently more powerful than its upper; its chest was enormously developed, but the stomach was small.

The head was big and round and smooth.