Edgar Rice Burroughs - Mars Chronicles 09 - Synthetic Men o

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10 I Find Janai

11 War of the Seven Jeds

12 Warrior's Reward

13 John Carter Disappears

14 When the Monster Grows

15 I Find My Master

16 The Jeddak Speaks

17 Escape Us Never

18 Treason Island

19 Night Flight

20 The Mighty Jed of Goolie

21 Duel to the Death

22 Off for Phundahl

23 Captives of Amhor

24 Caged

25 Prince in a Zoo

26 The Bite of the Adder

27 Flight Into Jeopardy

28 The Great Fleet

29 Back Toward Morbus

30 The End of Two Worlds

31 Adventure's End

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Little is known of the Great Toonolian Marshes in other portions

of Barsoom, for this inhospitable region is peopled by fierce beasts

and terrifying reptiles, by remnants of savage aboriginal tribes long

isolated, and is guarded at either extremity by the unfriendly

kingdoms of Phundahl and Toonol which discourage intercourse

with other nations and are constantly warring upon one another.

Upon an island near Toonol, Ras Thavas, The Master Mind of

Mars, had labored in his laboratory for nearly a thousand years

until Vobis Kan, Jeddak of Toonol, turned against him and drove

him from his island home and later repulsed a force of Phundahlian

warriors led by Gor Hajus, the Assassin of Toonol, which had

sought to recapture the island and restore Ras Thavas to his

laboratory upon his promise to devote his skill and learning to the

amelioration of human suffering rather than to prostitute them to

the foul purposes of greed and sin.

Following the defeat of his little army, Ras Thavas had

disappeared and been all but forgotten as are the dead, among

which he was numbered by those who had known him; but there

were some who could never forget him. There was Valla Dia,

Princess of Duhor, whose brain he had transferred to the head of

the hideous old Xaxa, Jeddara of Phundahl, that Xaxa might

acquire the young and beautiful body of Valla Dia. There was Vad

Varo, her husband, one time assistant to Ras Thavas, who had

restored her brain to her own body – Vad Varo, who had been born

Ulysses Paxton in the United States of America and presumably

died in a shell hole in France; and there was John Carter, Prince of

Helium, Warlord of Mars, whose imagination had been intrigued by

the tales Vad Varo had told him of the marvelous skill of a world's

greatest scientist and surgeon.

John Carter had not forgotten Ras Thavas, and when an

emergency arose in which the skill of this greatest of surgeons was

the sole remaining hope, he determined to seek him out and find

so John Carter determined to go first to Duhor.

He selected from his fleet a small swift cruiser of a new type that

had attained a speed of four hundred miles an hour – over twice the

speed of the older types which he had first known and flown

through the thin air of Mars. He would have gone alone, but

Carthoris and Tara and Thuvia pleaded with him not to do so. At

last he gave in and consented to take one of the officers of his

personal troops, a young padwar named Vor Daj. To him we are

indebted for this remarkable tale of strange adventure upon the

planet Mars; to him and Jason Gridley whose discovery of the

Gridley Wave has made it possible for me to receive this story over

the special Gridley radio receiving set which Jason Gridley built out

here in Tarzana, and to Ulysses Paxton who translated it into

English and sent it across some forty million miles of space.

I shall give you the story as nearly as possible in the words of

Vor Daj as is compatible with clarity. Certain Martian words and

idioms which are untranslatable, measures of time and of distance

will be usually in my own words; and there are occasional

interpolations of my own that I have not bothered to assume

responsibility for, since their origin will be obvious to the reader. In

addition to these, there must undoubtedly have been some editing

on the part of Vad Varo.

So now to the strange tale as told by Vor Daj.

creature that must be tamed and trained as are the young of the

lower orders which have been domesticated by man. And so much

of that training is martial that it sometimes seems to me that I must

have stepped from the egg fully equipped with the harness and

weapons of a warrior. Let this, then, serve as my introduction. It is

enough that you know my name and that I am a fighting man

whose life is dedicated to the service of John Carter of Mars.

Naturally I felt highly honored when The Warlord chose me to

accompany him upon his search for Ras Thavas, even though the

assignment seemed of a prosaic nature of offering little more than

an opportunity to be with The Warlord and to serve him and the

incomparable Dejah Thoris, his princess. How little I foresaw what

was in store for me!

It was John Carter's intention to fly first to Duhor, which lies

some ten thousand five hundred haads, or about four thousand

earth miles, northwest of the Twin Cities of Helium, where he

expected to find Vad Varo, from whom he hoped to learn the

whereabouts of Ras Thavas, who, with the possible exception of Vad

Varo, was the only person in the world whose knowledge and skill

might rescue Dejah Thoris from the grave, upon the brink of which

she had lain for weeks, and restore her to health.

It was 8:25 (12:13 A.M. Earth Time) when our trim, swift flier

rose from the landing stage on the roof of The Warlord's palace.

Thuria and Cluros were speeding across a brilliant starlit sky

casting constantly changing double shadows across the terrain

beneath us that produced an illusion of myriad living things in

constant, restless movement or a surging liquid world, eddying and

boiling; quite different, John Carter told me, from a similar aspect

above Earth, whose single satellite moves at a stately, decorous

pace across the vault of heaven.

With our directional compass set for Duhor and our motor

functioning in silent perfection there were no navigational problems

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10IFindJanai11WaroftheSevenJeds12Warrior'sReward13JohnCarterDisappears14WhentheMonsterGrows15IFindMyMaster16TheJeddakSpeaks17EscapeUsNever18TreasonIsland19NightFlight20TheMightyJedofGoolie21DueltotheDeath22OffforPhundahl23CaptivesofAmhor24Caged25PrinceinaZoo26TheBiteoftheAdder27FlightIntoJeopardy28T...

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