READ THE NOVEL- Chapters 1-31 - ERBzine

Tarzan on Mars
swered almost as instinctively, in accordance was her own
primitive school of thought.
"All strength comes from god," she answered, while she
wondered at her unwavering fearlessness in the titanic grip
of this great hulking brute.
Her anthropoid expression of the abstract idea of god,
however, was one to which earthmen might have taken
exception, for the ideation carried the connotation of "sun."
Therefore, what she had really said was that all strength
comes from the sun. And in a purely biological sense, who
could say that she had erred?
Churg's great, dumb face wrinkled in outward sign of his
herculean mental struggle with this concept. After a long
moment, he stepped to the window, still gripping La's
numbed wrist. He squinted up at the sun. Then he grunted.
"hurg looks many times at the sun. But Churg cannot fly
through the sky like the red man. How can Churg ask the sun
for strength?"
In spite of the pain in her wrist, La perceived a miracle,
even for this world of the After Life. For the first time in her
existence, she was confronted by the spectacle of a beast who
had found the power of the abstract.
"Chung has already started to grow strong, like man," she
answered.
The towering, massive ape looked down at the comparatively
puny female creature in his grip. But, like a little child
looking into the face of his mother, he asked, "Can you show
Churg how to be a man?"
Boldly, La replied, "Yes. If you let La live, she will show
you the path to follow."
In that moment, a great commotion was heard arising
from some other location in the building. La heard the battle
cries of other apes, and she assumed correctly that her two
calots had encountered other members of the tribe of Churg
before they had been able to reach her.
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