READ THE NOVEL- Chapters 1-31 - ERBzine

Tarzan on Mars
startled, listening. Kar Komak heard it, too.
From afar off it came, echoing faintly out of the dim
vastness of the empty sea bottoms—the long drawn out cry
of some nameless beast such as had never been heard before
in all the history of Barsoom. It was a sound that plucked at
the long forgotten cords of racial memory and caused a
prickly, chilling sensation to touch one's spine.
Thoats squealed in the caravan behind them. Many of the
great white apes answered that distant cry with restless,
rumbling growls. The zitidar, looming darkly in front of them,
raised up its head and bellowed.
"In the name of my first ancestor!" Kar Komak exclaimed.
"What is that?"
La rose to her feet and he followed her. His arm,
touching hers, detected that she was cold and trembling. He
saw her look out at the world with the face of one who has
seen ghost.
"Do you know what it is?" he asked her.
After a long moment, she answered, "I am almost afraid
to say that I do, because I am not sure the thing I am thinking
is possible." Then she looked up quickly into his eyes and he
saw in her beautiful face such an expression of despair and
longing as no man had ever witnessed. "But I must know!" he
exclaimed. "I must!"
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