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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: strip between the ice barrier and the mountains is considered
neutral ground. Some turn off from their voluntary pilgrimage
down the Iss, and, scaling the awful walls of its canyon below
us, stop in the valley. Also a slave now and then escapes
from the therns and makes his way hither.
"They do not attempt to recapture such, since there is no
escape from this outer valley, and as a matter of fact they
fear the patrolling cruisers of the First Born too much to
venture from their own domains.
"The poor creatures of this outer valley are not molested
by us since they have nothing that we desire, nor are they
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