Some remarks

ENVOY 159, TAUFIQ, reports:
Since my last visit, twenty-one cities have been established in the old flood areas. Five are large, with populations of a quarter of a million or more. Trade flourishes between the cities and as far as the eastern areas of the main landmass, its Northwest fringes, the northern parts of Southern Continent I, the Isolated Northern Continent.
The living is luxurious, wasteful, higher purposes forgotten, except for a few.
There has been racial mixing with the results of experiments from both southern continents. The merits, demerits, and general peculiarities of these crosses are analysed in the accompanying Report by the Mission of Population Analysts, Envoys 153, 154, 155.
The worst of the adverse factors is that there have been matings with Shammat stock, as a deliberate policy by Shammat to counteract our improvements as a result of genetic boosts before the inundation.
Shammat is not only constantly at work persuading Shikasta into the ways of Shammat, but is now informing these unfortunates that Shikasta is being defrauded by "the Gods," who exploit them, of their rightful heritage, and that if certain practices are followed, then Shikastans will become "as Gods."
This is now a popular belief everywhere. Revolts against us are being planned. These will take the form of mass attempts to "transcend" themselves, by means suggested through Shammat spies. They congregate together for "higher practices" - the vibrations of which are channelled off to Shammat. They perform mass slaughter of animals, as a ritual. They also practice spurious versions of the Art of the Stones, suggested by Shammat.
I support the recommendation of 153, 154, 155 to disrupt their speech centres.
Representatives from every region of Shikasta known to them are to gather in the Areas of the Cities to confer about ways to "become Gods." Unknown to them, Shammat will preside.
ENVOY 160, TAUFIQ, reports:
The urgency of the situation again necessitated use of spacecraft. All six of us attended the conference, purporting to be the delegates from the extreme Northwest fringes. As there were so many different types present, there were no difficulties. The recommended techniques were effective. As a result their communication systems malfunctioned, and eight main languages are now established on Shikasta. These will develop into hundreds, then thousands of languages and dialects because of the Shikastan Law of inevitable division, subdivision.
I again apply for transfer from Shikastan service into any other branch of the Colonial Service.