sithic

Updated: May 21, 2025

Well, Ja should know his own business, I thought, and so I grasped the spear and clambered up toward the red man as rapidly as I could being so far removed from my simian ancestors as I am. I imagine the slow-witted sithic, as Ja called him, suddenly realized our intentions and that he was quite likely to lose all his meal instead of having it doubled as he had hoped.

Edgar Rice Burroughs - At the Earth's Core

I hadn't heard of anything of that nature, but I thought best not to admit it. "I could be in no more danger here," I said, "than naked and unarmed in the savage jungles or upon the lonely plains of Pellucidar. I was fortunate, I think, to return to Phutra at all. As it was I barely escaped death within the jaws of a huge sithic.

Edgar Rice Burroughs - At the Earth's Core

I hadn't heard of anything of that nature, but I thought best not to admit it. "I could be in no more danger here," I said, "than naked and unarmed in the savage jungles or upon the lonely plains of Pellucidar. I was fortunate, I think, to return to Phutra at all. As it was I barely escaped death within the jaws of a huge sithic.

Edgar Rice Burroughs - At the Earth's Core