In the afternoon we returned to the underground room and the members of the committee told us of the various rebellions which had occurred, and of which they had some knowledge, over the last one hundred years.

We learned that in revenge for their uprisings entire nations and races had been removed to other realities, to places where Humans had died out. As far as they knew, on this version of the planet everyone had brown hair and brown eyes with a fairly light skin.

In the New World the native Americans hunted various types and colours of buffalo, deer and bear, Africa teemed with fur bearing creatures, as was probably the case in places further East - but they were a closed book to the Committee, places such as Australia and Japan were as remote as the far side of the moon.