 You are an Earthman? That's right. My name is Edward Danton. Only a few months ago, I left Earth on a spaceship. How was it powered? By a GM subspatial torque converter. What do you think, Professor? It's amazing. Truly amazing. His grasp of colloquial English bespeaks a fairly high level of intelligence, which points up a phenomenon frequently met with in savage societies, namely, an unusually well-developed power of mimicry.