



Produced by Judith Boss









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 opportunity 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
summer camp could have been filled with greater impatience 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