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Cosmic Tales, v. 2, issue 1, Summer 1939

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... gone far saw his cause hopeless, and yielded. The Inca nation in Peru, when the North Americans arrived, resisted further, but were likewise beaten. Then, the conquerors passed on down the Andes to the conquest of the Pampas. Speer, telling them of some of the things (such as the giant Patagonians) that they would meet, and some of the things they should bring back samples of, left them to join another force, including many of the soldiers in the Inca army of the Isthmus, which was attempting to get down thru the Guiana and Brazilian jungles and along the coast to join the western army at the Plata before the summer of the Southern Hemisphere set it. This conquering of the interior was something the Brazilian government in a century had never been able to do completely, and Speer was doubtful of the ability of his force to do it in a year; but on the other hand, he was striving only for a sketchy control, of scattered yieldings of chiefs and spaced outposts, and exploration and trading; and his command over his men was theoretically absolute. 
But he did not stay to finish the task, instead, he turned back up the continent making arrangements along the way for this and that, riding an Andean Llama. 
In Oklahoma, he found a changed world, and the winter brot further changes. Along impotant routes, semaphore stations signaled official messages and some more homey ones, from mountain top tower. Wilson was working on wire suitable for telegraphy which was to come the next spring; already, he had batteries of sorts, suitable for flashlights (carbon-filamented), and was setting up a dam on the Arkansas and one on the Wichita for hydroelectric power and to improve navigation and irrigation. McPhail was occupied with many things closer to the lives of the people; finding what plants were worth cultivation and improving, and what could imported, practicably, from the Mississippi; better glass; plumbing for substantial houses; thousands of handicrafts now in the rude machinerystage; and other things beyond all telling. 
Before winter, Speer gathered another force to make an expedition beyond the Missouri, up toward Lake Winnipeg, returning by a somewhat more easterly route, which, however, avoided the Great Lakes country, and back along the Missippi to Missouri, returning to the capital by way of the Memphis mining district. And thereafter, thru the winter, tho busy with many things, he was intolerably restless.
Now, trade flowed in from all parts of the empire. Brightly colored parrots that could be taught to talk were shipped from the Plata and Orinoco to Galveston Bay, whence they were transported northward by wagon (Wilson had devised a diesel motor to utilize the raw petroleum so abundant here, and automobiles were not far in the future). Parrots made good gifts to keep the friendship and servility of the important subchiefs, as did quicksilver from Guiana. Brazil sent rubber, yet a subject for experiments to attain stretchability, but sent no coffee--the three had decided on that. More llamas do the work of horses came up from the south and many products of Inca and Mayan craft; also gold, for the chiefs of the realm. Nearer to home, milk goats were brot from the Rocky Mountain slopes, the western boundary; and "strength thru joy" (as Speer insisted on calling them) trips were arranged for the indians to Carlsbad and the north woods, to enjoy real snow sports they had previously barely tasted. Building wood came from North American spots, and stone also. The Ozark area supplied from scarsely opened mines, iron, cobalt, copper, silver (for photography) and other minerals.
"Boy, if Thomas Calver McClary could see us now," remarked Speer one day. The remark was obscure to his companions, so they

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... gone far saw his cause hopeless, and yielded. The Inca nation in Peru, when the North Americans arrived, resisted further, but were likewise beaten. Then, the conquerors passed on down the Andes to the conquest of the Pampas. Speer, telling them of some of the things (such as the giant Patagonians) that they would meet, and some of the things they should bring back samples of, left them to join another force, including many of the soldiers in the Inca army of the Isthmus, which was attempting to get down thru the Guiana and Brazilian jungles and along the coast to join the western army at the Plata before the summer of the Southern Hemisphere set it. This conquering of the interior was something the Brazilian government in a century had never been able to do completely, and Speer was doubtful of the ability of his force to do it in a year; but on the other hand, he was striving only for a sketchy control, of scattered yieldings of chiefs and spaced outposts, and exploration and trading; and his command over his men was theoretically absolute. But he did not stay to finish the task, instead, he turned back up the continent making arrangements along the way for this and that, riding an Andean Llama. In Oklahoma, he found a changed world, and the winter brot further changes. Along impotant routes, semaphore stations signaled official messages and some more homey ones, from mountain top tower. Wilson was working on wire suitable for telegraphy which was to come the next spring; already, he had batteries of sorts, suitable for flashlights (carbon-filamented), and was setting up a dam on the Arkansas and one on the Wichita for hydroelectric power and to improve navigation and irrigation. McPhail was occupied with many things closer to the lives of the people; finding what plants were worth cultivation and improving, and what could imported, practicably, from the Mississippi; better glass; plumbing for substantial houses; thousands of handicrafts now in the rude machinerystage; and other things beyond all telling. Before winter, Speer gathered another force to make an expedition beyond the Missouri, up toward Lake Winnipeg, returning by a somewhat more easterly route, which, however, avoided the Great Lakes country, and back along the Missippi to Missouri, returning to the capital by way of the Memphis mining district. And thereafter, thru the winter, tho busy with many things, he was intolerably restless. Now, trade flowed in from all parts of the empire. Brightly colored parrots that could be taught to talk were shipped from the Plata and Orinoco to Galveston Bay, whence they were transported northward by wagon (Wilson had devised a diesel motor to utilize the raw petroleum so abundant here, and automobiles were not far in the future). Parrots made good gifts to keep the friendship and servility of the important subchiefs, as did quicksilver from Guiana. Brazil sent rubber, yet a subject for experiments to attain stretchability, but sent no coffee--the three had decided on that. More llamas do the work of horses came up from the south and many products of Inca and Mayan craft; also gold, for the chiefs of the realm. Nearer to home, milk goats were brot from the Rocky Mountain slopes, the western boundary; and "strength thru joy" (as Speer insisted on calling them) trips were arranged for the indians to Carlsbad and the north woods, to enjoy real snow sports they had previously barely tasted. Building wood came from North American spots, and stone also. The Ozark area supplied from scarsely opened mines, iron, cobalt, copper, silver (for photography) and other minerals. "Boy, if Thomas Calver McClary could see us now," remarked Speer one day. The remark was obscure to his companions, so they