Our hardy life as children make us take cheerfully to travel and adventure.

I mean to emigrate myself when of age." "Do the emigrants always select places hitherto uninhabited and barren ?" "As yet generally, because it is our rule never to destroy except when necessary to our well-being.

Of course, we cannot settle in lands already occupied by the Vril-ya; and if we take the cultivated lands of the other races of Ana, we must utterly destroy the previous inhabitants.

Sometimes, as it is, we take waste spots, and find that a troublesome, quarrelsome race of Ana, especially if under the administration of Koom-Posh or Glek-Nas, resents our vicinity, and picks a quarrel with us; then, of course, as menacing our welfare, we destroy it: there is no coming to terms of peace with a race so idiotic that it is always changing the form of government which represents it.
Koom-Posh," said the child, emphatically, "is bad enough, still it has brains, though at the back of its head, and is not without a heart; but in Glek-Nas the brain and heart of the creatures disappear, and they become all jaws, claws, and belly." "You express yourself strongly.
Allow me to inform you that I myself, and I am proud to say it, am the citizen of a Koom-Posh." "I no longer," answered Taee, "wonder to see you here so far from your home.

What was the condition of your native community before it became a Koom-Posh ?" "A settlement of emigrants--like those settlements which your tribe sends forth--but so far unlike your settlements, that it was dependent on the state from which it came.