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this must be the case of the different planets that our guys would have visited, while they thaught at the beginning that the men of the Earth were all speaking the same language, horribly commmmplicated. - Seeing the pictures brought back by our probes, we were very amazed to discover that the skin of people seemed to vary from a region to another. Whe supposed that the people of the Earth covered their skin with pigments in a ritual way, or to protect themselves from some diseases. Later we discovered with stupefaction that a set of ethnic groups were cohabitating, each one owning a peculiar language. We immediatly thought that this would simplify our infiltration in the terrestrial social net, without having assimilated the languages and the customs, pretending to be from foreign country. Rather quickly, the computer gave us the first linguistic elements allowing to decode the language of the local inhabitants. Walking some hundred meters away from our refuge we discovered a heap of stools, surrounded by some animal which flew away as we came2 >, Laying on a printed piece of paper, that we brought back in our underground. We tried to decode the ideograms which where printed on this document2?. Today this object, which is the first we discovered on Earth, is on Ummo, where it has been conserved with special techniques to frezze with care the parts with different temperatures , depending from the material. One of us suggested that this could dorrespond to a ritual action of someone who wanted to show his reprobation againts this written document30. A photography on the document showed the way the people were clothed. Helped with these informations we sewed some synthetic clothes, copyng the picture. We had no idea what button could be used for, and we pictures them with clear flakes. Fitted with this appoximative disguismement we ventured far from our refuge, but we realised rapidly that our clothes where anachroniques and we went back precipitely in our underground. This is a chance we have not been detected with such outfits. As a matter of fact the pitcture was related to a theater play which has been given in the capitale 31. The first human beeing we met was a young schepherd, named Pierre, aged then of eleven and, which was warding some unknowm mamals with horns 32. 105