PELLUCIDAR

By Edgar Rice Burroughs

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

PROLOGUE

I LOST ON PELLUCIDAR

II TRAVELING WITH TERROR

III SHOOTING THE CHUTES--AND AFTER

IV FRIENDSHIP AND TREACHERY

V SURPRISES

VI A PENDENT WORLD

VII FROM PLIGHT TO PLIGHT

VIII CAPTIVE

IX HOOJA'S CUTTHROATS APPEAR

X THE RAID ON THE CAVE-PRISON

XI ESCAPE

XII KIDNAPED!

XIII RACING FOR LIFE

XIV GORE AND DREAMS

XV CONQUEST AND PEACE

PROLOGUE

SEVERAL YEARS had elapsed since I had found the op-portunity to do

any big-game hunting; for at last I had my plans almost perfected

for a return to my old stamping-grounds in northern Africa, where

in other days I had had excellent sport in pursuit of the king of

beasts.

The date of my departure had been set; I was to leave in two weeks.

No schoolboy counting the lagging hours that must pass before the

beginning of "long vacation" released him to the delirious joys of

the sum-mer camp could have been filled with greater im-patience

or keener anticipation.

And then came a letter that started me for Africa twelve days ahead

of my schedule.

Often am I in receipt of letters from strangers who have found

something in a story of mine to commend or to condemn. My interest

in this department of my correspondence is ever fresh. I opened

this particular letter with all the zest of pleasurable anticipation

with which I had opened so many others. The post-mark (Algiers)

had aroused my interest and curiosity, es-pecially at this time,

since it was Algiers that was presently to witness the termination