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creatures could be on the turtle's back."

"I think," said Bearwarden, "it will be the part of wisdom to return to
the Callisto, and do the rest of our exploring on Jupiter from a safe
height; for, though we succeeded in disabling this beauty, it was
largely through luck, and had we not done so we should probably have
provided a bon bouche for our deceased friend, instead of standing at
his grave."

Accordingly they proceeded, and were delighted, a few minutes later, to
see the sunlight reflected from the projectile's polished roof.

CHAPTER X.

CHANGING LANDSCAPES.

On reaching the Callisto, Ayrault worked the lock he had had placed on
the lower door, which, to avoid carrying a key, was opened by a
combination. The car's interior was exactly as they had left it, and
they were glad to be in it again.

"Now," said Bearwarden, "we can have a sound and undisturbed sleep,
which is what I want more than anything else. No prowlers can trouble
us here, and we shall not need the protection-wires."

They then opened a window in each side--for the large glass plates,
admitting the sun when closed, made the Callisto rather warm--and
placed a stout wire netting within them to keep out birds and bats, and
then, though it was but little past noon, got into their comfortable
beds and slept nine hours at a stretch. Their strong metal house was
securely at rest, receiving the sunlight and shedding the rain and dew
as it might have done on earth. No winds or storms, lightnings or
floods, could trouble it, while the multiformed monsters of antiquity
and mythology restored in life, with which the terrestrials had been
thrown into such close contact, roamed about its polished walls. Not
even the fiercest could affect them, and they would but see themselves
reflected in any vain assaults. The domed symmetrical cylinder stood
there as a monument to human ingenuity and skill, and the travellers'
last thought as they fell asleep was, "Man is really lord of creation."

The following day at about noon they awoke, and had a bath in the warm
pool. They saw the armoured mass of the great ant evidently
undisturbed, while the bodies of its victims were already shining
skeletons, and raised a small cairn of stones in memory of the struggle
they had had there.

"We should name this place Kentucky," said Bearwarden, "for it is
indeed a dark and bloody ground," and, seeing the aptnes