His name, it seemed, was Corrus.
"Yes, Corrus. They seemed to think it a good idea for us to take a
little recreation to-day. I suppose ye left thy herd with thy
brother?"
He nodded; and the doctor was left to wonder whom "They" might be.
Were They a small group of humans, whose function was to
superintend? Or were They, as the books from Venus seemed to
indicate, another type of creature, entirely different from the
humans, and yet, because of the peculiar Sanusian conditions,
superior to the humans?
"They have decided to move their city a little farther away from the
forest," Rolla overheard Dulnop telling Cunora; which was the first
indication that the planet boasted such a thing as a city.
Otherwise, things appeared to be in a primitive, rather than a
civilized condition.
These four skin-clad savages seemed to be enjoying an aboriginal
picnic. For lunch, they munched on various fruits and nuts picked up
en route, together with handfuls of some wheatlike cereal which the
big man had brought in a goatskin.
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