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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: than one hundred and fifty haad at the most.
From the boundary of Torquas to the city of Aaanthor
is a distance of some two hundred haads, so that the
Heliumite had before him a journey of more than one
hundred and fifty Earth miles between him and Aaanthor.
He could at best but hazard a chance guess that toward
Aaanthor Thuvia would take her flight. There lay
the nearest water, and there might be expected some day
a rescuing party from her father's empire; for Carthoris
knew Thuvan Dihn well enough to know that he would
leave no stone unturned until he had tracked down the
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