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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: traverse, for Tarzan of the Apes traveled along the middle
terrace high above the tangled obstacles that impede
progress upon the ground.
The story the young bull ape had told made it clear to him
that the girl captive had been Jane Porter, for there was not
another small white "she" in all the jungle. The "bulls" he
had recognized from the ape's crude description as the
grotesque parodies upon humanity who inhabit the ruins of Opar.
And the girl's fate he could picture as plainly as though
he were an eyewitness to it. When they would lay her across
that trim altar he could not guess, but that her dear, frail
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