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Updated: June 11, 2025
"Dacor, I am sure, wanted to be fair and just, but so great were his grief and anger over the disappearance of his sister that he could not listen to reason, but kept repeating time and again that only your return to Pellucidar could prove the honesty of your intentions. "Then came a stranger from another tribe, sent I am sure at the instigation of Hooja.
And then how Hooja had sent four others to find me and take me prisoner. But these men, she said, had not yet returned, or at least she had not heard of their return. "Nor will you ever," I responded, "for they have gone to that place whence none ever returns." I then related my adventure with these four.
I shall not attempt to quote these people in their own abbreviated tongue you would have even greater difficulty in interpreting them than did I. Instead, I shall put the words into their mouths which will carry to you the ideas which they intended to convey. "You are an enemy," was Gr-gr-gr's initial declaration. "You belong to the tribe of Hooja." Ah! So they knew Hooja and he was their enemy!
Slowly, after the manner of locomotion habitual to the Mahars, when they are not using their wings, we crept through throngs of busy slaves, Sagoths, and Mahars. After what seemed an eternity we reached the outer door which leads into the main avenue of Phutra. Many Sagoths loitered near the opening. They glanced at Ghak as he padded between them. Then Perry passed, and then Hooja.
He has only to call upon his Mahar allies to receive a countless horde of Sagoths to do his bidding against his human enemies. "Let us wait until you may gather an equal horde from the kingdoms of your empire. Then we may march against Hooja with some show of success.
Not once yet had we sighted land, nor could I understand it, since so many of the seas I had seen before were thickly dotted with islands. Our plight was anything but pleasant, yet I think that Hooja and his forces were even worse off than we, for they had no food nor water at all.
When I told him that Hooja had stolen her, he stamped his foot in rage. "It is always the Sly One!" he cried. "It was Hooja who caused the first trouble between you and the Beautiful One. "It was Hooja who betrayed our trust, and all but caused our recapture by the Sagoths that time we escaped from Phutra.
They had no wars and had always lived in peace and harmony, menaced only by the larger carnivora of the island, until my kind had come under a creature called Hooja, and attacked and killed them when they chanced to descend from their natural fortresses to visit their fellows upon other lofty mesas.
Had we done so we could have held it, for there are only two entrances the narrow tunnel at one end and the steep path up the cliffs at the other. "But when Hooja heard what we had planned he was very angry, and ordered that I die.
A roar of approval went up from those of the other prisoners and the Sagoths who had witnessed the brief drama; not, as I later learned, because I had championed the girl, but for the neat and, to them, astounding method by which I had bested Hooja. And the girl?
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