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The
missing
words
of
the
following
sentence
are
probably
"
the
crowd
.
"
There
follows
quite
clearly
:
"
grew
ever
denser
as
we
drew
near
the
palace
of
the
Grand
Lunar
--
if
I
may
call
a
series
of
excavations
a
palace
.
Everywhere
faces
stared
at
me
--
blank
,
chitinous
gapes
and
masks
,
eyes
peering
over
tremendous
olfactory
developments
,
eyes
beneath
monstrous
forehead
plates
;
and
undergrowth
of
smaller
creatures
dodged
and
yelped
,
and
helmet
faces
poised
on
sinuous
,
long-jointed
necks
appeared
craning
over
shoulders
and
beneath
armpits
.
Keeping
a
welcome
space
about
me
marched
a
cordon
of
stolid
,
scuttle-headed
guards
,
who
had
joined
us
on
our
leaving
the
boat
in
which
we
had
come
along
the
channels
of
the
Central
Sea
.
The
quick-eyed
artist
with
the
little
brain
joined
us
also
,
and
a
thick
bunch
of
lean
porter-insects
swayed
and
struggled
under
the
multitude
of
conveniences
that
were
considered
essential
to
my
state
.
I
was
carried
in
a
litter
during
the
final
stage
of
our
journey
.
This
litter
was
made
of
some
very
ductile
metal
that
looked
dark
to
me
,
meshed
and
woven
,
and
with
bars
of
paler
metal
,
and
about
me
as
I
advanced
there
grouped
itself
a
long
and
complicated
procession
.
"
In
front
,
after
the
manner
of
heralds
,
marched
four
trumpet-faced
creatures
making
a
devastating
bray
;
and
then
came
squat
,
resolute-moving
ushers
before
and
behind
,
and
on
either
hand
a
galaxy
of
learned
heads
,
a
sort
of
animated
encyclopedia
,
who
were
,
Phi-oo
explained
,
to
stand
about
the
Grand
Lunar
for
purposes
of
reference
.
(
Not
a
thing
in
lunar
science
,
not
a
point
of
view
or
method
of
thinking
,
that
these
wonderful
beings
did
not
carry
in
their
heads
!
)
Followed
guards
and
porters
,
and
then
Phi-oo
's
shivering
brain
borne
also
on
a
litter
.
Then
came
Tsi-puff
in
a
slightly
less
important
litter
;
then
myself
on
a
litter
of
greater
elegance
than
any
other
,
and
surrounded
by
my
food
and
drink
attendants
.
More
trumpeters
came
next
,
splitting
the
ear
with
vehement
outcries
,
and
then
several
big
brains
,
special
correspondents
one
might
well
call
them
,
or
historiographers
,
charged
with
the
task
of
observing
and
remembering
every
detail
of
this
epoch-making
interview
.
A
company
of
attendants
,
bearing
and
dragging
banners
and
masses
of
scented
fungus
and
curious
symbols
,
vanished
in
the
darkness
behind
.
The
way
was
lined
by
ushers
and
officers
in
caparisons
that
gleamed
like
steel
,
and
beyond
their
line
,
so
far
as
my
eyes
could
pierce
the
gloom
,
the
heads
of
that
enormous
crowd
extended
.
"
I
will
own
that
I
am
still
by
no
means
indurated
to
the
peculiar
effect
of
the
Selenite
appearance
,
and
to
find
myself
,
as
it
were
,
adrift
on
this
broad
sea
of
excited
entomology
was
by
no
means
agreeable
.
Just
for
a
space
I
had
something
very
like
what
I
should
imagine
people
mean
when
they
speak
of
the
'
horrors
.
'
It
had
come
to
me
before
in
these
lunar
caverns
,
when
on
occasion
I
have
found
myself
weaponless
and
with
an
undefended
back
,
amidst
a
crowd
of
these
Selenites
,
but
never
quite
so
vividly
.
It
is
,
of
course
,
as
absolutely
irrational
a
feeling
as
one
could
well
have
,
and
I
hope
gradually
to
subdue
it
.
But
just
for
a
moment
,
as
I
swept
forward
into
the
welter
of
the
vast
crowd
,
it
was
only
by
gripping
my
litter
tightly
and
summoning
all
my
will-power
that
I
succeeded
in
avoiding
an
outcry
or
some
such
manifestation
.
It
lasted
perhaps
three
minutes
;
then
I
had
myself
in
hand
again
.
"
We
ascended
the
spiral
of
a
vertical
way
for
some
time
,
and
then
passed
through
a
series
of
huge
halls
dome-roofed
and
elaborately
decorated
.
The
approach
to
the
Grand
Lunar
was
certainly
contrived
to
give
one
a
vivid
impression
of
his
greatness
.
Each
cavern
one
entered
seemed
greater
and
more
boldly
arched
than
its
predecessor
.
This
effect
of
progressive
size
was
enhanced
by
a
thin
haze
of
faintly
phosphorescent
blue
incense
that
thickened
as
one
advanced
,
and
robbed
even
the
nearer
figures
of
clearness
.
I
seemed
to
advance
continually
to
something
larger
,
dimmer
,
and
less
material
.
"
I
must
confess
that
all
this
multitude
made
me
feel
extremely
shabby
and
unworthy
.
I
was
unshaven
and
unkempt
;
I
had
brought
no
razor
;
I
had
a
coarse
beard
over
my
mouth
.
On
earth
I
have
always
been
inclined
to
despise
any
attention
to
my
person
beyond
a
proper
care
for
cleanliness
;
but
under
the
exceptional
circumstances
in
which
I
found
myself
,
representing
,
as
I
did
,
my
planet
and
my
kind
,
and
depending
very
largely
upon
the
attractiveness
of
my
appearance
for
a
proper
reception
,
I
could
have
given
much
for
something
a
little
more
artistic
and
dignified
than
the
husks
I
wore
.
I
had
been
so
serene
in
the
belief
that
the
moon
was
uninhabited
as
to
overlook
such
precautions
altogether
.
As
it
was
I
was
dressed
in
a
flannel
jacket
,
knickerbockers
,
and
golfing
stockings
,
stained
with
every
sort
of
dirt
the
moon
offered
,
slippers
(
of
which
the
left
heel
was
wanting
)
,
and
a
blanket
,
through
a
hole
in
which
I
thrust
my
head
.
(
These
clothes
,
indeed
,
I
still
wear
.
)
Sharp
bristles
are
anything
but
an
improvement
to
my
cast
of
features
,
and
there
was
an
unmended
tear
at
the
knee
of
my
knickerbockers
that
showed
conspicuously
as
I
squatted
in
my
litter
;
my
right
stocking
,
too
,
persisted
in
getting
about
my
ankle
.
I
am
fully
alive
to
the
injustice
my
appearance
did
humanity
,
and
if
by
any
expedient
I
could
have
improvised
something
a
little
out
of
the
way
and
imposing
I
would
have
done
so
.
But
I
could
hit
upon
nothing
.
I
did
what
I
could
with
my
blanket
--
folding
it
somewhat
after
the
fashion
of
a
toga
,
and
for
the
rest
I
sat
as
upright
as
the
swaying
of
my
litter
permitted
.
"
Imagine
the
largest
hall
you
have
ever
been
in
,
imperfectly
lit
with
blue
light
and
obscured
by
a
grey-blue
fog
,
surging
with
metallic
or
livid-grey
creatures
of
such
a
mad
diversity
as
I
have
hinted
.
Imagine
this
hall
to
end
in
an
open
archway
beyond
which
is
a
still
larger
hall
,
and
beyond
this
yet
another
and
still
larger
one
,
and
so
on
.
At
the
end
of
the
vista
,
dimly
seen
,
a
flight
of
steps
,
like
the
steps
of
Ara
Coeli
at
Rome
,
ascend
out
of
sight
.
Higher
and
higher
these
steps
appear
to
go
as
one
draws
nearer
their
base
.
But
at
last
I
came
under
a
huge
archway
and
beheld
the
summit
of
these
steps
,
and
upon
it
the
Grand
Lunar
exalted
on
his
throne
.
"
He
was
seated
in
what
was
relatively
a
blaze
of
incandescent
blue
.
This
,
and
the
darkness
about
him
gave
him
an
effect
of
floating
in
a
blue-black
void
.
He
seemed
a
small
,
self-luminous
cloud
at
first
,
brooding
on
his
sombre
throne
;
his
brain
case
must
have
measured
many
yards
in
diameter
.
For
some
reason
that
I
can
not
fathom
a
number
of
blue
search-lights
radiated
from
behind
the
throne
on
which
he
sat
,
and
immediately
encircling
him
was
a
halo
.
About
him
,
and
little
and
indistinct
in
this
glow
,
a
number
of
body-servants
sustained
and
supported
him
,
and
overshadowed
and
standing
in
a
huge
semicircle
beneath
him
were
his
intellectual
subordinates
,
his
remembrancers
and
computators
and
searchers
and
servants
,
and
all
the
distinguished
insects
of
the
court
of
the
moon
.
Still
lower
stood
ushers
and
messengers
,
and
then
all
down
the
countless
steps
of
the
throne
were
guards
,
and
at
the
base
,
enormous
,
various
,
indistinct
,
vanishing
at
last
into
an
absolute
black
,
a
vast
swaying
multitude
of
the
minor
dignitaries
of
the
moon
.
Their
feet
made
a
perpetual
scraping
whisper
on
the
rocky
floor
,
as
their
limbs
moved
with
a
rustling
murmur
.
