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We
had
not
long
to
wait
for
our
enemy
.
A
wild
shrill
clamor
rose
from
the
edge
of
the
wood
and
suddenly
a
body
of
ape-men
rushed
out
with
clubs
and
stones
,
and
made
for
the
center
of
the
Indian
line
.
It
was
a
valiant
move
but
a
foolish
one
,
for
the
great
bandy-legged
creatures
were
slow
of
foot
,
while
their
opponents
were
as
active
as
cats
.
It
was
horrible
to
see
the
fierce
brutes
with
foaming
mouths
and
glaring
eyes
,
rushing
and
grasping
,
but
forever
missing
their
elusive
enemies
,
while
arrow
after
arrow
buried
itself
in
their
hides
.
One
great
fellow
ran
past
me
roaring
with
pain
,
with
a
dozen
darts
sticking
from
his
chest
and
ribs
.
In
mercy
I
put
a
bullet
through
his
skull
,
and
he
fell
sprawling
among
the
aloes
.
But
this
was
the
only
shot
fired
,
for
the
attack
had
been
on
the
center
of
the
line
,
and
the
Indians
there
had
needed
no
help
of
ours
in
repulsing
it
.
Of
all
the
ape-men
who
had
rushed
out
into
the
open
,
I
do
not
think
that
one
got
back
to
cover
.
But
the
matter
was
more
deadly
when
we
came
among
the
trees
.
For
an
hour
or
more
after
we
entered
the
wood
,
there
was
a
desperate
struggle
in
which
for
a
time
we
hardly
held
our
own
.
Springing
out
from
among
the
scrub
the
ape-men
with
huge
clubs
broke
in
upon
the
Indians
and
often
felled
three
or
four
of
them
before
they
could
be
speared
.
Their
frightful
blows
shattered
everything
upon
which
they
fell
.
One
of
them
knocked
Summerlee
's
rifle
to
matchwood
and
the
next
would
have
crushed
his
skull
had
an
Indian
not
stabbed
the
beast
to
the
heart
.
Other
ape-men
in
the
trees
above
us
hurled
down
stones
and
logs
of
wood
,
occasionally
dropping
bodily
on
to
our
ranks
and
fighting
furiously
until
they
were
felled
.
Once
our
allies
broke
under
the
pressure
,
and
had
it
not
been
for
the
execution
done
by
our
rifles
they
would
certainly
have
taken
to
their
heels
.
But
they
were
gallantly
rallied
by
their
old
chief
and
came
on
with
such
a
rush
that
the
ape-men
began
in
turn
to
give
way
.
Summerlee
was
weaponless
,
but
I
was
emptying
my
magazine
as
quick
as
I
could
fire
,
and
on
the
further
flank
we
heard
the
continuous
cracking
of
our
companion
's
rifles
.
Then
in
a
moment
came
the
panic
and
the
collapse
.
Screaming
and
howling
,
the
great
creatures
rushed
away
in
all
directions
through
the
brushwood
,
while
our
allies
yelled
in
their
savage
delight
,
following
swiftly
after
their
flying
enemies
.
All
the
feuds
of
countless
generations
,
all
the
hatreds
and
cruelties
of
their
narrow
history
,
all
the
memories
of
ill-usage
and
persecution
were
to
be
purged
that
day
.
At
last
man
was
to
be
supreme
and
the
man-beast
to
find
forever
his
allotted
place
.
Fly
as
they
would
the
fugitives
were
too
slow
to
escape
from
the
active
savages
,
and
from
every
side
in
the
tangled
woods
we
heard
the
exultant
yells
,
the
twanging
of
bows
,
and
the
crash
and
thud
as
ape-men
were
brought
down
from
their
hiding-places
in
the
trees
.
I
was
following
the
others
,
when
I
found
that
Lord
John
and
Challenger
had
come
across
to
join
us
.
"
It
's
over
,
"
said
Lord
John
.
"
I
think
we
can
leave
the
tidying
up
to
them
.
Perhaps
the
less
we
see
of
it
the
better
we
shall
sleep
.
"
Challenger
's
eyes
were
shining
with
the
lust
of
slaughter
.
"
We
have
been
privileged
,
"
he
cried
,
strutting
about
like
a
gamecock
,
"
to
be
present
at
one
of
the
typical
decisive
battles
of
history
--
the
battles
which
have
determined
the
fate
of
the
world
.
What
,
my
friends
,
is
the
conquest
of
one
nation
by
another
?
It
is
meaningless
.
Each
produces
the
same
result
.
But
those
fierce
fights
,
when
in
the
dawn
of
the
ages
the
cave-dwellers
held
their
own
against
the
tiger
folk
,
or
the
elephants
first
found
that
they
had
a
master
,
those
were
the
real
conquests
--
the
victories
that
count
.
By
this
strange
turn
of
fate
we
have
seen
and
helped
to
decide
even
such
a
contest
.
Now
upon
this
plateau
the
future
must
ever
be
for
man
.
"
