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Updated: July 26, 2025
They led us from the arena and back through the streets of Phutra to the audience chamber in which I had been tried and sentenced. Here we found ourselves facing the same cold, cruel tribunal. Again a Sagoth acted as interpreter.
The guards in whose hands I now found myself, upon hearing that I had returned of my own volition to Phutra evidently felt that it would be safe to give me liberty within the building as had been the custom before I had escaped, and so I was told to return to whatever duty had been mine formerly.
"The Mahars of Phutra are not supposed to eat human flesh, yet slaves are brought here by thousands and almost always you will find Mahars on hand to consume them.
But finally they rose far out beyond the fleet, and when the feluccas came about and pursued them they left the water and flew away toward the north. Following the fall of Phutra I visited Anoroc, where I found the people busy in the shipyards and the factories that Perry had established.
In the world of my birth I never had drawn a shaft, but since our escape from Phutra I had kept the party supplied with small game by means of my arrows, and so, through necessity, had developed a fair degree of accuracy.
Picking up my sword I leaned upon it, looking down on the dead body of my foeman, and as I thought of the battle I had just fought and won a great idea was born in my brain the outcome of this and the suggestion that Perry had made within the city of Phutra.
They would not tell me in which direction Hooja had set forth with Dian, so I departed from Phutra, filled with bitterness against the Mahars, and rage toward the Sly One who had once again robbed me of my greatest treasure.
Let their numbers increase by thou-sands. They will be helpless before the power of the Emperor of Pellucidar. "But if you remain a prisoner in Phutra, what may we accomplish? "What could the men of Pellucidar do without you to lead them?
Then it questioned me through one of the Sagoths. "You say that you returned to Phutra of your own free will, because you think yourself better off here than elsewhere do you not know that you may be the next chosen to give up your life in the interests of the wonderful scientific investigations that our learned ones are continually occupied with?"
In one of the skirmishes with slave caravans some of our Sarians took a number of Sagoth prisoners, and among them were two who had been members of the guards within the building where we had been confined at Phutra. They told us that the Mahars were frantic with rage when they discovered what had taken place in the cellars of the buildings.
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