Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-02
PELLuCIDAR
SEQUEL to "At the Earth's Core"
By EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS
Author of he
Author of the "Tarzan" Stories

seek information. All this we learned from
one of our own warriors who had pretended
to sympathize with this band and had then
escaped at the first opportunity
Who could this man be-" l asked Ghak,
who leads so vile movement against his
own kind?"
His name is Hooja." spoke up Kolk, an
swering my question.
Ghak and | looked at each other Relief
was written upon his countenance. and l
know that 1t was beating strongly in my
heart. At last we had discovered "A tangible
clue to the whereabouts of Hooja-and with
the clue a guide!
But when broached the subject to Kolk
he demurred. He had come a long way, he
explained. to see his sister and to confer
, with Dacor. Moreover, he had instructions
from his father which he could not ignore
lightly. But even so he would return with
me and show me the way to the island Of
the Thurian shore if by doing we might
accomplish anything.
But we cannot" he urged. "Hooja is
powerful. He has thousands of warriors.
He has only to call upon his Mahar allies
to receive countless horde of Sagoths TO
do his bidding against his human enemies.
Let us wait until you may gather an
equal horde from the kingdoms of your en-
| pire. Then we may march against Hooja
with some show of success
But first must you lure him to the main
| land, for who among you knows how to con-
| struct the strange things that carry Hooja
and his band back and forth across the
! water?
we are not island people We do not go
| upon the water We know nothing of such
| things"
I couldn't persuade him to do more than
| direct ma upon the way | showed him my
map, which now included a great area of
| country extending from Anoroc upon the
east to Sari upon the west, and from the
river south of the Mountains of the Clouds
| north to Amor. AS soon as / explained IL
| to him he drew line with his finger, show
| ing a seacoast far to the west and south of
| Sari. and great circle, which he said
| marked the extent of the Land of Awful
| Shadow in which lay Thuria.
| The shadow extended southeast of the
| coast, out into the halfway to a large
| island which he said was the seat of
| Hoojas traitorous government. The island
| itself lay in the light Of the MONDAY sun
| Northwest of the coast and embracing a
part of Thuria lay the Lidi Plains, upon
the northwestern verge of which was situ-
atad the Mahar city which took such heavy
toll of the Thurians
Thus were the unhappy people now be-
tween two fires, with Hooja upon one side
and the Mahars upon the other did not
| wonder that they sent out an appeal for
| succor.
Though Ghak and Kok both attempted
to dssuade me, was determined to set out
at once, nor did delay longer than to make
a copy of my map to be given to Perry that
| he might add to his that which 7 had cat
down since we parted. l left a letter for
him as well, in which. among other things
| | advanced the theory that the Solar Az or
Great Sea, which Kok mentioned as
stretching eastward from Thuria, might in.
deed be the same mighty ocean as that
which, swinging around the southern end of
continent ran northward along the shore
opposite Phutra, minging with the huge
gulf upon which lay Sari, Amoz and Green.
wich.
Against this possibility urged him N
hasten the building of fleet of small sa n.
ing vessels, which we might utilize should
| find 1t impossible to entice Hoojas bords
to the maitland.
told Ghak what had written, and spg.
gested that as soon as he could he maise
| new treaties with the various kinpdon,s ",
the empire, collect an army and march ~
ward Thuria-this, of course, against tbs
possibility Of my detention through SONS
cause or other
Kok gave me sign to his father,
lidi. or beast of burden, crudely stretcbe,
| upon a bit of bone, and beneath the lidi ,
man and a flower; all very rudely done
perhaps. but none the less effective a
well knew from my long years among tn
} primitive men of Pellucidar.
The lidi is the tribal beast of tha Tb,
rams; the man and the flower In the com
bination in which they appeared bore
double Significance. as they constituted ND
! | only a message to the effect that the bea
| came in peace, but were also Kolks sigma
3 ture,
And so, armed with my credentials an
4 my small arsenal. l set out alone upon M
quest for the dearest girl In this world o
4 yours
Kolk gave me explicit directions, thoug
Q with my map do not believe that I coul,
' have gone wrong. AS matter of fact
| aid not need the map at all. since the prin
cipal landmark of the first half Of my Jour
Q ney, a gigantic mountain peak. was plainl
y visible from sari. though a good hundre
4 miles away
) AZ the southern base OF this ,mountai
{ | I river ROSE and ran IN westerly direction
= |. 0nally turnlnG south and emptyino ~
! tth1 optef Az coms forty miller noytnt Z