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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: stand at thrice the range of the most powerful javelin-
thrower and with a loud noise and a smudge of smoke
slay one of their number with an invisible missile.
But only for an instant were they paralyzed with
wonder. Then, with savage shouts, they fell once more
to their paddles and forged rapidly toward us.
Again and again I fired. At each shot a warrior sank
to the bottom of the canoe or tumbled overboard.
When the prow of the first craft touched the side of
the Sari it contained only dead and dying men. The
other two dugouts were approaching rapidly, so I turned
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