To do so they
first tried building the fire on a large piece of bark. Of course it
burned through, and there had been more delay. Finally Corrus
located a piece of slate, so large that a small fire could be kept
up without danger of spilling.
The two men had hurried straight for the village. Not once did
either of them dream what a magnificent spectacle they made; the two
skin-clad aborigines, bearing the thing which was to change them
from slaves into free beings, with all the wonders of civilization
to come in its train. Behind them as they marched, if they but knew
it, stalked the principles of the steam engine, of the printing-press,
of scientific agriculture and mechanical industry in general. Look
about the room in which you sit as you read this; even to the door-knobs
every single item depends upon fire, directly or indirectly! But
Corrus and Dulnop were as ignorant of this as their teeth were devoid
of fillings.
Not until then did it occur to the four watchers on the earth that
there was anything premature about the affair.
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