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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: zan, they realized that they must keep on at all costs
until they found a spot where they might ascend the precipi-
tous side of the gorge to the floor of the plateau above. Tarzan
and Otobu were both equally confident that the Xujans would
not follow them beyond the gorge, but though they scanned
every inch of the frowning cliffs upon either hand noon came
and there was still no indication of any avenue of escape to
right or left. There were places where the ape-man alone
might have negotiated the ascent but none where the others
could hope successfully to reach the plateau, nor where Tar-
zan, powerful and agile as he was, could have ventured safely
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