mezop

Updated: May 23, 2025

So I gave it up and asked him about himself. He said he was a Mezop, and that his name was Ja. "Who are the Mezops?" I asked. "Where do they live?" He looked at me in surprise. "I might indeed believe that you were from another world," he said, "for who of Pellucidar could be so ignorant! The Mezops live upon the islands of the seas.

Edgar Rice Burroughs - At the Earth's Core

There was also one full regiment of Mezop musketeers and a regiment of primitive spearmen. The rest of the lidi that we brought with us were used for baggage animals and to transport our women and children, for we had brought them with us, as it was our intention to march from one Mahar city to another until we had subdued every Mahar nation that menaced the safety of any kingdom of the empire.

Edgar Rice Burroughs - Pellucidar

So labyrinthine are the windings of these trails, so varied the connecting links and the distances which one must retrace one's steps from the paths' ends to find them that a Mezop often reaches man's estate before he is familiar even with those which lead from his own city to the sea.

Edgar Rice Burroughs - At the Earth's Core