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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: Barsoom of such a fleet, or even of the First Born, or the
Sea of Omean. Why indeed should they maintain a watch?
Presently I dropped to the floor again and talked with
Xodar, describing the various craft I had seen.
"There is one there," he said, "my personal property,
built to carry five men, that is the swiftest of the swift.
If we can board her we can at least make a memorable run
for liberty," and then he went on to describe to me the
equipment of the boat; her engines, and all that went
to make her the flier that she was.
In his explanation I recognized a trick of gearing that
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