OPPORTUNE MEETING WITH A PHYSICIAN

During our time in Syria in the mid 18^th century our skin-living cousins met with a physician named Alexander Russell, who called our effects the ‘Aleppo Boil’. We are of the opinion that encouraging this kind of publicity is dangerous, and can cause deleterious delays to our travel plans as it encourages those human scientists to find ways to prevent our forays into new territory. However this wasn’t to happen for a number of years.