“Why, Sir, said I, to our English Interpreter, do you sup by Day-light?  You mistake, said he, it is now Night; your World to the Inhabitants of this Hemisphere (which is always turn’d to it, this Planet moving in an Epicycle) reflects so strong the Sun’s Light, that your Error is excusable.  What then, said I, do those of the other Hemisphere for Light?  They have it, said he, from the Planets.”

I went with them into a Parlour, where, after a Hymn was sung, we sat down to a Table cover’d with Sallets and all sorts of Fruits.

“You must, said the Selenite, content your self with what we can offer you, which is nothing but the spontaneous Products of the Earth:  We cannot invite you to other, since the eating any thing that has had Life, is look’d upon with Abhorrence, and never known in this World:  But I am satisfied you will easily accommodate your self to our Diet, since the Taste of our Fruits is much more exquisite than yours, since they fully satisfy, and never cloy:” 

Which I found true by Experience, and I was so far from hankering after Flesh, that even the Thoughts of it were shocking and nauseous to me.

We drank the most delicious Wine, which they press’d from the Grape into their Cups, and which was no way intoxicating.  After Supper, the Selenite address’d himself to me in Words to this Effect.

“I have acquainted my Friends here present, who are come to pass some Days with me, both with the Contents of the Cacklogallinian Emperor’s Letter, and the Reasons which mov’d this Prince to desire an Intercourse between the two Worlds, and we will all of us wait on you to our Prince’s Court, tho’ strictly speaking, we neither have, nor need a Governour; and we pay the distant Respect due to your Princes to the eldest among us, as he is the nearest to eternal Happiness.  But that I may give you some Idea, both of this World, and its Inhabitants, you must learn, that Men in yours are endued with a Soul and an Understanding; the Soul is a material Substance, and cloathes the Understanding, as the Body does the Soul; at the Separation of these two, the Body is again resolved into Earth, and the Soul of the Virtuous is placed in this Planet, till the Understanding being freed from it by a Separation we may call Death, tho’ not attended with Fear or Agony, it is resolved into our Earth, and its Principle of Life, the Understanding, returns to the Great Creator; for till we have here purg’d off what of Humanity remains attach’d to the Soul, we can never hope to appear before the pure Eyes of the Deity.

“We are here, said he, in a State of Ease and Happiness, tho’ no way comparable to that we expect at our Dissolution, which we as earnestly long for, as you Mortals carefully avoid it.  We forget nothing that pass’d while we were cloath’d in Flesh, and Inhabitants of your Globe, and have no other Uneasiness, than