Date: 1898
People were landing hastily on both sides of the river.  But the Martian machine took no more notice for the moment of the people rupning this way and that than a man would of the con fusion of ants in a nest against which his foot has kicked.  When, half suffocated, I raised my head above water the Martian's hood pointed at the batteries that were still firing across the river, and as it advanced it swung loose what must have been the generator of the Heat- Ray.