Project Gutenberg #62
A Princess of Mars
Edgar Rice Burroughs
1912Burroughs's first Barsoom planetary romance, prepared foreword and chapter by chapter from Project Gutenberg plaintext.
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Chapter 4 — CHAPTER IV A Prisoner Central question What happens when Carter meets Mars’s first dominant tribe? Main argument Carter is captured by the Tharks, whose social organization and martial habits define...
motioned me to be seated upon a pile of silks near the center of
the room, and, turning, made a peculiar hissing sound, as though
signaling to someone in an adjoining room. In response to her call I
obtained my first sight of a new Martian wonder. It waddled in on its
ten short legs, and squatted down before the girl like an obedient
puppy. The thing was about the size of a Shetland pony, but its head
bore a slight resemblance to that of a frog, except that the jaws were
equipped with three rows of long, sharp tusks.