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At a signal from Captain Czuv the pilot of each lifeboat shot his tiny craft out into space and took his allotted place in the formation following closely behind the Bzarvk, flying toward Europa, now so large in the field of vision that she resembled more a world than a moon.
"I introduce to you Captain Czuv, of the scout cruiser Bzarvk, of the only human race now living upon the fourth large satellite of Jupiter, which satellite we know as Callisto. I am avoiding their own names as much as possible, because they are almost unpronounceable in English or Interplanetarian.
Our situation is peculiar, and in order that you may understand fully what lies ahead of us, the captain will now speak to you, through me that is, what follows will be spoken by Captain Czuv, of the Bzarvk, but he will be using my vocal organs." "Friends from distant Tellus," King's voice went on, almost without a break, "I greet you.
The Bzarvk, coated every inch as it was with a dull, dead black, completely absorptive outer coating, entered the thin layer of Callisto's atmosphere in darkest night, with all rockets dead, with not a light showing, and with no apparatus of any kind functioning.
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