Somewhere past the Eastern Sea live a people whose reach is their whole story. The single witness wired here, Myths & Legends of China (the 1922 compilation), records that "The Long-armed People are about thirty feet high", with "their arms reaching from the shoulders to the ground". Their country was found by accident. An old man told a passing company of explorers that a "cloth garment" — a coat "not unlike that of a Chinese coat", but "with sleeves thirty feet in length" — "had been found in the sea", and the expedition sent after that clue discovered where such sleeves were worn.

The witness sets them beside the Long-legged People next door, and the detail that lingers is how the two make a living together. Those with the long arms are "being able to take the shellfish of the shallow waters", while the long legs "take the surface fish from the deeper localities", so that "thus the two gather a harvest otherwise unobtainable". Their other neighbors are stranger still — a One-eyed People, and clans paired like "rights and lefts" — but it is these long-armed fishers, wading and "taking the fish with their hands", who hold the address.

The shelf sets one Irish authority beside the Chinese here, filed under Cross, but only the Chinese text is wired to served pages; the Irish long-armed folk wait unread. Is a body built so far past the human still a marvel, or only a tool the shoreline shaped for reaching?