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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: forward until a dozen warriors stood about him with ready
spears. At first they thought that the falling had killed him,
but upon closer examination they discovered that the man was
only stunned. One of the warriors was for thrusting a spear
through his heart, but Numabo, the chief, would not permit it.
"Bind him," he said. "We will feed well tonight."
And so they bound his hands and feet with thongs of gut
and carried him into the hut where Lieutenant Harold Percy
Smith-Oldwick awaited his fate. The Englishman had also been
bound hand and foot by this time for fear that at the last mo-
ment he might escape and rob them of their feast. A great
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