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Updated: June 17, 2025
Then we busied ourselves stepping a mast and rigging a small sail Juag and I, that is while Dian cut the thag meat into long strips for drying when we should be out in the sunlight once more. At last all was done. We were ready to embark.
She, too, could fight a thag should emergency require. Ah, such a girl! A rightful empress of a stone age by every standard which two worlds might bring to measure her! Crashing down toward us came the bull thag, bellowing and snorting, with the power of a hundred outer-earthly bulls. When he was opposite me I sprang for the heavy mane that covered his huge neck.
But for Perry and Ghak I should have leaped to the floor of the arena and shared whatever fate lay in store for this priceless treasure of the Stone Age. With the advent of the Bos they call the thing a thag within Pellucidar two spears were tossed into the arena at the feet of the prisoners.
We certainly could not live long in this little boat, with only a few strips of dried thag and a few quarts of water left. Quite suddenly a thought occurred to me. I was surprised that it had not come before as a solution to our problem. I turned toward Juag.
As the two-year-old hailed him as "fadder", I gathered that he was the person responsible for the family now fighting at his feet. "What's the trouble?" he asked helplessly. "She gave Thag a nickel," explained the eldest boy, "and we want it." The man drew a sigh of relief. The solution of this family problem was instantly and satisfactorily met by an impartial distribution of nickels.
To tangle my fingers in it was the work of but an instant. Then I was running along at the beast's shoulder. Now, the theory upon which this hunting custom is based is one long ago discovered by experience, and that is that a thag cannot be turned from his charge once he has started toward the object of his wrath, so long as he can still see the thing he charges.
It was the arena and a wild thag or fierce tarag for me unless the Mahars elected to take me to the pits. In that case my end would be no more certain, though infinitely more horrible and painful, for in the pits I should be subjected to cruel vivisection.
I learned that the first and last time I tried it. Once astride the bull's neck, I drew my long stone knife and, setting the point carefully over the brute's spine, drove it home with both hands. At the same instant I leaped clear of the stumbling animal. Now, no vertebrate can progress far with a knife through his spine, and the thag is no exception to the rule. The fellow was down instantly.
When Perry was rested we returned to the prospector, where he fitted himself out fully like a civilized human being under-clothing, socks, shoes, khaki jacket and breeches and good, substantial puttees. When I had come upon him he was clothed in rough sadak sandals, a gee-string and a tunic fashioned from the shaggy hide of a thag.
Juag was still running in plain sight ahead of the bull. His speed was but a trifle less than that of the monster that pursued him. These Pellucidarians are almost as fleet as deer; because I am not is one reason that I am always chosen for the close-in work of the thag-hunt. I could not keep in front of a charging thag long enough to give the killer time to do his work.
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