Carson of Venus. Title: Carson of Venus. Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Project Gutenberg of Australia e. Book *. e. Book No.: 0. Language: English. Date first posted: Feb 2. Most recent update: Mar 2. This e. Book was produced by: Robert Pezzarini and Roy Glashan. Project Gutenberg of Australia e. Books are created from printed editions. Abstracts of Wills by Carson Gibb. Introduction and abbreviations list Liber 31, folio 1 13 Aug. 1758 SUMMERS, JOHN, Somerset Co. To David Summers, eldest. OUT-OF-CONTRACT York City midfielder Luke Summerfield has signalled his intention to stay in the Football League next season. Summerfield will be free to leave Bootham Crescent under the Bosman ruling this summer and is hoping. USA Today politics blog. Report: Trump rented to Iranian bank with terror ties 5.3k Shares Daughter of Trump booster Giuliani is backing Clinton. Buy Sauder Carson Forge Desk, Washington Cherry at Walmart.com. Australia, unless a copyright notice. We do NOT keep any e. Books in compliance with a particular. Be sure to check the. You may copy it, give it away or re- use it under the terms. Project Gutenberg of Australia License which may be viewed online at. To contact Project Gutenberg of Australia go to http: //gutenberg. GO TO Project Gutenberg Australia HOME PAGEby. Edgar Rice Burroughs. BOOK 3 IN THE VENUS SERIESSerialized in Argosy Weekly, January 8—February. First Book Edition—Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., February. TABLE OF CONTENTSIndia is a world unto itself, apart in manners. Even upon far Barsoom or Amtor might be found no more. We sometimes feel that what. Of the many good things that have come to us out of. India I am concerned at present with but one—the power which. Chand Kabi transmitted to the son of an English officer and his.
American wife to transmit his thoughts and visualizations to the. It is to this power we owe the fact that Carson Napier. Venus. When he took off from Guadalupe Island in his. Mars, I listened to the story of that epochal. Venus. I. followed his adventures there that started in the island kingdom of. Vepaja where he fell desperately in love with Duare, the. I followed their wanderings. Kapdor, and. Kormor, the city of the dead, to glorious Havatoo, where Duare was. I. thrilled with excitement during their perilous escape in the. Carson Napier had built at the request of the rulers. Havatoo. And always I suffered with Napier because of Duare's. Vepaja. She repulsed him constantly. I rejoiced with him when. That was immediately after they had escaped from. Havatoo and were winging their way above the River of Death toward. Vepaja, where. Duare's father, Mintep, ruled. Months passed. I commenced to fear that Napier had. I began to have messages from him. I shall record for the benefit of posterity as nearly. I can recall them. Everyone who has ever flown will recall. But that dawn that Duare and I took off from Havatoo to the. Amtorian rifles, I was. I believe that this was the happiest and most. The woman I love had just told me that. I was once again at the controls of a ship, I was. I was flying in safety above the innumerable menaces that. Amtorian scene. Undoubtedly, other dangers lay ahead of. Vepaja, but for the moment. With Duare it may have been a little different. It would not be strange. Havatoo she had had no conception that there might exist. It was naturally something of a shock to her; but she was. The ship was a model of perfection, such a ship as will one day. Earth when science has. Havatoo. Synthetic materials. The engine was noiseless and. Earth men. Fuel for the life of the. This apparent miracle is. Our own scientists are aware. In the case of coal it is as. The fuel for my engine. Earth men, and. another element, vik- ro, the action of which upon. The. precipitancy of our departure had precluded any possibility of. We had escaped with our lives and what we. I didn't want to. But, really, we had a great. Duare presently raised one. My father, the jong, would have you. We have spoken of love to one another, and no man may. Vepaja before she is. You know that well enough. I have loved you from the first, Carson. I thought you hated me; and. I wondered.? Do you know a single spot in all. There is none; and in Vepaja. I shall have to take the chance of. You. have told me of the gods and goddesses of the religions of your. In Vepaja the royal family occupies a similar position in. I should think your father. With many. opportunities in two worlds to pick a girl for me to fall in love. It was tough, yet I. To have loved Duare, and to know. Duare's decision that we must not return to Vepaja had left me. Of course I didn't know that I could. Vepaja anyway, but at least it was something to aim at. Havatoo was the grandest city I had ever seen. Duare. after I had rescued her from the City of the Dead, and our escape. To hunt for a hospitable. Venus is a. world of contradictions, anomalies, and paradoxes. In the midst of. scenes of peace and beauty, one meets the most fearsome beasts. What hope had I, then, of finding a safe retreat for. Duare and myself? I determined then to return Duare to Vepaja, that. We were flying south along the course of Gerlat kum Rov, The. River of Death, toward the sea to which I knew the waters must. I was flying low, as both Duare and I wished. There were. forests and hills and plains and, in the distance, mountains; while. Venus. We saw herds of animals grazing on the plains. It was a vast wilderness that. Amtorian. Our course was due south, and I believed that when we reached. Vepaja. I asked Duare if she were hungry. She said she. was—very—but asked what good it would do her. There won't be. one of them within miles by the time you get this thing on the. But she did say 'this thing' in. Carson—it is an anotar. I thought. this better than airship, possibly because Duare had coined it. I had an elevation of about a thousand feet; but as my motor was. As I started to spiral. Duare gave a little gasp and touched my arm. She didn't. seize it, as some women might have; she just touched it, as though. It must have been rather a. We were. dropping rapidly when suddenly one of the grazing animals looked. Then they all stampeded. I. straightened out and went after them, dropping down until I was. At the altitude at which we had been. I do not consider that it is very sporting to shoot animals from. I was not indulging in sport—I was after. I could get it without. I drew my pistol and brought down a fat young. I guess it was a yearling—it looked as though it. The chase had brought us quite close to a fringe of. River of. Death; so that I had to bank quite sharply to avoid piling up among. When I glanced at Duare she was quite white, but she was. By the time I landed beside my kill, the. Leaving Duare in the cockpit, I got out to bleed and butcher the. It was my intention to cut off as much meat as I thought. I was working close beside the plane, and neither Duare nor I. Of. course, we were careless in not maintaining a better watch; but I. I. must admit, were doubtless strange and wonderful to behold. The first intimation I had of impending danger was a frightened. As I wheeled toward her, I saw fully a. Three of them were right on top of me. I saw no chance of defending myself; and went. I had of my attackers revealed the astonishing fact. I must have lain there unconscious for more than an hour, and. I regained consciousness I found myself alone—the. Duare were gone. I came at that moment to being as nearly. I ever had been before in my life. To have. Duare and happiness snatched from me after a few brief hours, at. It was the more serious aspect of the situation. Duare. I was pretty badly mussed up. My head and the upper part of my. Why. I had not been killed I shall never understand, and I am certain. My wounds were quite. My skull was intact; but my. I was weak from shock and loss of. An examination of the ship showed that it had not been damaged. I glanced around the plain I saw that. It must have been. The brief glimpse I had had of the warrior women suggested that. From this I. assumed that they must live in a village; and as they were on foot. I was sure that they must have come out of the forest. I must. search for Duare first. We had seen no village before landing, as it seemed almost. To prosecute. my search on foot, especially in view of the presence of the savage. I could find it more quickly and more easily from the. I was rather weak and dizzy as I took my place at the controls. I was. However, I made a. I almost forgot my hurts. I flew low over the. If there were a. village and if it were built in the forest, it might be difficult. I fly low enough. The forest was not of great extent; and I soon spanned it, but I. Beyond the forest was a range. I saw a well worn trail. This. I followed; but I saw no village, though the landscape lay spread. The hills were cut with little canyons. It was rough country where one would least expect to. I gave up the search in this direction and. Duare had. been captured, intending to start my search from there in another. I was still flying very low, covering once more the ground I had. Dropping still. lower, I saw that it was a man. He was walking very rapidly and. He had not discovered the ship. The beast was stalking. I knew that it would soon charge, and so I dropped quickly. Nor was I a moment too soon. As the beast charged, the man turned to face it with his. I had drawn my Amtorian pistol, charged with its deadly. I flattened out just above the tharban, narrowly. I let him have it. I think it was more luck. I banked, circled the man and made a. He was the first human being I had seen since. Duare, and I wanted to question him. He was alone. armed only with primitive weapons; and, so, absolutely in my. I don't know why he didn't run away; for that airship must have. I. taxied up and stopped near him. It may have been that he was just. He was a small, rather insignificant looking. About his throat were several necklaces of colored. His long black hair was coiled in two. He. carried a sword, a spear, and a hunting knife. As I descended from the ship and approached him, he backed away. You do not know me; we are. But even then, many of us. What is that thing you were riding in? I can see. now that it is not alive. Why does it not fall to the ground and. It sounds more like a woman's name. I think it is a. very sweet name, too; don't you? That would be five miles of our system of. I had flown back and forth over that area. Oh, we Samary have many villages; we are very. Was one of the women large and powerful and with a deep. If you'd gotten too close to them you'd be. I thought maybe Bund might have been with them; then. I would have known that they were from Houtomai.
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