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Tarzan on Mars
time he had grasped the dismounted rider's lance, which he
hurled at a charging adversary. The point of the huge weapon
passed through the green man's deep chest and he fell dead
at Tarzan's feet.
To avoid a windmill blow from another sword, he ducked
again under a passing thoat and overturned it; but this time
the rider jumped free in time to avoid being pinned down, and
without an instant's hesitation, he leaped upon Tarzan,
seeking to overcome him with his bare hands.
As though this method of attack were a signal for the
others, fully five of the giant brutes leaped upon him. Tarzan
struck at them, breaking heads, necks, limbs and dealing out
death with the ferocity and strength of a demon, but still they
came grasping at him, striking back and finally overcoming
him with the sheer weight of insurmountable numbers.
At last he went down beneath them as the flat of a sword
struck his head, causing him to lose consciousness—but not
before he had left on the field of battle two dead thoats and
five dead Torquasian warriors. All of which, his astounded
captors noted, he had accomplished with his bare hands!
Thus began the saga that was eventually to earn Tarzan
of the Apes another name—a certain legendary name that was
to shake the foundations of Barsoomian civilization...
* * *
"The observatory of Helium insists that this is the area.
They have recorded two infra-radiation trails at this point. If
a space rocket actually did crash on Barsoom, it is reasonable
to think that its occupant might have effected a separate
landing in a smaller vehicle."
The speaker was Carthoris, who stood on the deck of a
mighty aerial dreadnought of Helium. The huge, heavily
armed ship, escorted by twenty other large fighting craft,
glided low above the great sea bottom, its observers scanning
the entire area for signs of the visitor from Earth.
In other time, Carthoris and a few of his friends might
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