At the Earth's Core Page #3

I can go on much longer.

Come on, doc.

It can't be much farther.

Oh!

Noisy lot, aren't they, David?

Ah.

Doc?

Mmm?

Dia...

Dia, she's gone.

Uh?

She's not here?

Ghak, what happened to Dia?

Hoojah the sly one.

He escaped with the girl you refused.

- I what?

- You insulted Dia.

Do you not know what you have done?

No.

When a man from Pellucidar fights

with another man for a woman,

she belongs to he who wins.

Well, you should've claimed

her or released her.

But you showed contempt

for her by doing nothing.

Now no man can

take her as mate

until he's overcome you in combat.

I didn't know.

I thought I was protecting her.

Forgive me, for you

could not have known.

Dia was in hiding from Jubal,

the ugly one.

He is a man with the

strength of many men.

And he has made it known

that he wants Dia for his mate.

There is no one who can

defend her against him,

and so Dia fled to the hills.

Only to be captured

by a Sagoth raiding party.

There is something

you should know, my friend.

Dia is a princess,

the daughter of kings.

She is proud and she

will never forgive you,

even if you did find her again,

which you will not.

We are all doomed

to slavery... and death.

They are no respecters of age, are they?

David!

What a phenomenal sight...

a fire curtain!

Ooh!

Ugh!

- David!

- What?

A Rhamphorhynchus of

the middle Jurassic period.

My goodness, how enormous.

Why, the largest

remains we ever discovered

have never indicated a size much greater

than that attained by an ordinary crow.

- Oh!

- Hey!

What are you doing?

Oh, oh!

Doc!

Perry!

Take care of yourself.

I will, and you.

You are beginning to annoy me.

Ghak, one at a time.

You've got a long day.

Ah, there you are, my friend.

Another one for the shelves.

Thank you.

Now, what have we got?

Fascinating.

"The Mahar...

"is limited...

"vocally...

"but has been...

"endowed...

"with...

"mesmeric powers...

"and a high degree of telepathy".

That's quite a

combination, for a bird.

I don't know what it is

they're giving us to eat.

Perhaps it's just as well.

- Doc?

- Mm-hmm?

How do we get out of here?

I really haven't been able

to find out anything definite

about the Mahar's secret yet,

except that, in some way,

it is connected with the lava,

with the heat.

Well, I'm certainly getting

to know about that.

Ahh, but that is the point, David.

Slaves are used to constantly

repair and divert the lava channels.

You see, although the

lava is of vital importance,

it is also eating away at the very

foundations of the Mahar city.

And so its flow has to be continually

checked and rechanneled.

In fact, the whole safety of the

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