was wav­ing a white flag.

This was the Depu­ta­tion. There had been a hasty con­sulta­tion, and since the Mar­tians were evid­ently, in spite of their re­puls­ive forms, in­tel­li­gent creatures, it had been re­solved to show them, by ap­proach­ing them with sig­nals, that we too were in­tel­li­gent