many of the inhabitants of this provincial town took themselves to be indigenous to this region of the worldalthough this was most likely a false assumption , for , surely , some forgotten group of ancestors of theirs had journeyed to this land mass from somewhereand , in their presumed homogeneous purity as a race , they had mixed attitudes toward the arrival of q , whose facial and body features were such as they had never seen before ( even among the similarly homogeneous people from their rival city-states ) .