Quotation from: The Gods of Mars

Written by: Edgar Rice Burroughs


"When she realized that she was in the clutches of the black pirates,
she attempted to take her own life, but one of the blacks tore her
dagger from her, and then they bound us both so that we could not
use our hands.


"The fleet continued north after capturing us. There were about
twenty large battleships in all, besides a number of small swift
cruisers. That evening one of the smaller cruisers that had been
far in advance of the fleet returned with a prisoner--a young red
woman whom they had picked up in a range of hills under the very
noses, they said, of a fleet of three red Martian battleships.

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