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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: them down. It was little else than slaughter. Time
and time again I cried to them to surrender, promising
them their lives if they would do so. At last there
were but ten boatloads left. These turned in flight.
They thought they could paddle away from us--
it was pitiful! I passed the word from boat to boat
to cease firing--not to kill another Hoojan unless they
fired on us. Then we set out after them. There was
a nice little breeze blowing and we bowled along after
our quarry as gracefully and as lightly as swans upon
a park lagoon. As we approached them I could see not
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