# A blur hanging in the distant sky

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- Published: 2023-02-20T07:50:53+00:00
- Author: Roman Xavier Hudson

As we touched the pretty, level beach Ja leaped out and I followed him. Together
we dragged the skiff far up into the bushes that grew beyond the sand. “We must 
hide our canoes,” explained Ja, “for the Mezops of Luana are always at war with 
us and would steal them if they found them,” he nodded toward an island farther 
out at sea, and at so great a distance that it seemed but a blur hanging in the 
distant sky.

The upward curve of the surface of Pellucidar was constantly revealing the impossible
to the surprised eyes of the outer-earthly. To see land and water curving upward
in the distance until it seemed to stand on edge where it melted into the distant
sky, and to feel that seas and mountains hung suspended directly above one’s head
required such a complete reversal of the perceptive and reasoning faculties as almost
to stupefy one. No sooner had we hidden the canoe than Ja