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Updated: June 23, 2025

Far out behind us in a long line that curved upward in the distance, to be lost in the haze, strung Hooja's two hundred boats. But one would have been enough to have taken us could it have come alongside. We had drawn some fifty yards ahead of Hooja there had been times when we were scarce ten yards in advance-and were feeling considerably safer from capture.

Edgar Rice Burroughs - Pellucidar