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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: value, as were also the crude iron swords with which
most of the imperial warriors were armed.
We lost heavily in the encounter after the Sagoths
reached us; but they were absolutely exterminated--
not one remained even as a prisoner. The Mahars, seeing
how the battle was going, had hastened to the safety of
their buried city. When we had overcome their gorilla-
men we followed after them.
But here we were doomed to defeat, at least tempo-
rarily; for no sooner had the first of our troops descended
into the subterranean avenues than many of them came
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