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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: which I had seen in use by the Mezops. In it were four
paddles. I was much delighted, as it promptly offered
me the escape I had been craving.
I pushed it out into water that would float it, stepped
in and called to Raja to enter. At first he did not seem
to understand what I wished of him, but after I had
paddled out a few yards he plunged through the surf
and swam after me. When he had come alongside I
grasped the scruff of his neck, and after a considerable
struggle, in which I several times came near to over-
turning the canoe, I managed to drag him aboard,
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