It was,
however, fitted with a big bronze ring to which a draft animal
could be hitched. Most of the cultivation seemed to have been done
with spades and hoes. He found a couple of each, bronze, cast flat
in an open-top mold. They hadn't learned to make composite molds.
There was an even wider variety of crops than he had expected: two
cereals, a number of different root-plants, and a lot of different
legumes, and things like tomatoes and pumpkins.
"Bet these people had a pretty good life, here--before the Terrans
came," Charley observed.
"Don't say that in front of Paul," Lillian warned. "He has enough
to worry about now, without starting him on whether we'll do these
people more harm than good."
Two more landing craft had come down from the _Hubert Penrose_;
they found Dave Questell superintending the unloading of more
prefab-huts, and two were already up that had been brought down
with the first landing.
A name for the planet had also arrived.
"Svantovit," Karl Dorver told him. "Principal god of the Baltic
Slavs, about three thousand years ago.
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