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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: there were other tribes like them dwelling upon other
hilltops. They had no wars and had always lived in
peace and harmony, menaced only by the larger carniv-
ora of the island, until my kind had come under a crea-
ture called Hooja, and attacked and killed them when
they chanced to descend from their natural fortresses
to visit their fellows upon other lofty mesas.
Now they were afraid; but some day they would go
in a body and fall upon Hooja and his people and slay
them all. I explained to him that I was Hooja's enemy,
and asked, when they were ready to go, that I be al-
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