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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: highest speed of our slowest beast.
For the balance of the day and all the following night we
raced across that ochre wilderness with the pursuers at
our back ever gaining upon us. Slowly but surely they were
lessening the distance between us. Just before dark they had
been close enough for us to plainly distinguish that they were
green Martians, and all during the long night we distinctly
heard the clanking of their accoutrements behind us.
As the sun rose on the second day of our flight it disclosed
the pursuing horde not a half-mile in our rear. As they saw
us a fiendish shout of triumph rose from their ranks.
The Gods of Mars | 
