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Tarzan on Mars
sustenance it craved.
But at that moment he froze, motionless, while the hair
bristled at the nape of his neck. Swinging out of the canyon
toward him on a pair of long, intermediary arms came a type
of giant anthropoid of which Jules Carter had forewarned him.
He recognized the creature as the dreaded great white ape of
Barsoom, yet he had not been quite ready to believe the
description he had been given—until now. For, before the
horrible, ferocious aspect of one of these, Bolgani, himself
might have bolted, screaming and frothing at the mouth in his
terror.
To add seeming hopelessness to the situation, three
more of the Gargantuan brutes followed behind their leader,
and two of them carried great stone clubs. There was not one
of them which measured less than fourteen feet in height.
Each was equipped with giant fighting fangs and four colossal
arms.
With murderous, hungering intent, they encircled him,
stiff-legged, nearly erect, while they growled and snarled
their warnings to him.
Tarzan almost forgot the .45 automatic in his hand when
he realized that he could understand them perfectly! He had
little time to dwell upon the philological implications of this
seeming miracle, however, for death breathed hotly on his
neck.
"I am Kudg!" snarled the massive leader of the pack.
"Mighty hunter! Mighty Fighter! None can stand against
Kudg! I kill!" As though to emphasize the idea, he pounded on
his powerful chest.
Should Tarzan have walked into an ambush of African
gorillas, he might have done either one of two things. First,
he would have considered flight through the trees as being a
practical application of the jungle code for survival in the face
of such overwhelming odds. Lacking trees or the means for
flight, he could have attempted to bluff.
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