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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: in our jungle are Korak and Akut. It is they you have seen
returning from the hunt. Some day you will see your own
shadow, little Manu, and then you will be frightened to death."
But the monkey only screamed his warning more lustily before
he raced upward toward the safety of the high terrace where
Mangani, the great ape, could not follow. Presently Meriem
heard the sound of approaching bodies swinging through the trees.
She listened attentively. There were two and they were great
apes--Korak and Akut. To her Korak was an ape--a Mangani, for
as such the three always described themselves. Man was an
enemy, so they did not think of themselves as belonging any
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