He then invited us to supper, and we spent the night with
him.
[Here follows a detailed account of the extraordinary troops marshalled by Endymion and
Phaeton, and the manner in which the battle was
fought, the Moonites defeated, and the hero taken
prisoner with two of his companions. The victorious Sun-folk built a wall between their country
and the Moon, cutting off the sunlight, so that
Endymion's people were forced to sue for peace,
which was granted on easy terms, the chief stipulations being that the Moon should pay a yearly
tribute of a hundred thousand gallons of dew,
and that the Morning-star should be settled by
colonists from the Sun as well as the Moon, and
any one else who cared to join them.]