I know that. And-- But there are the stars!"

But why should time seem different because we are on a smaller planet?"

I don't know. There it is!"

How does one tell time?"

Hunger--fatigue--all those things are different. Everything is

different--everything. To me it seems that since first we came out of the

sphere has been only a question of hours--long hours--at most."

"Ten days," I said; "that leaves--" I looked up at the sun for a moment,

and then saw that it was halfway from the zenith to the western edge of

things. "Four days! ... Cavor, we mustn't sit here and dream. How do you

think we may begin?"

I stood up. "We must get a fixed point we can recognise--we might hoist a

flag, or a handkerchief, or something--and quarter the ground, and work

round that."

He stood up beside me.

Yes," he said, "there is nothing for it but to hunt the sphere. Nothing.

We may find it--certainly we may find it. And if not--"

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