 ... extreme age among them, nor is there any appreciable difference in their appearance from the age of maturity, about forty, until, at about the age of one thousand years, they go voluntarily upon their last strange pilgrimage down the river Iss, which...  A Princess of Mars - Page 37by Edgar Rice Burroughs - 1917 - 326 pagesFull view - About this book
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...since regained the upper hand: There are other and natural causes tending toward a diminution of the population, but nothing contributes so greatly to...ever voluntarily without a weapon of destruction. [Ml:4] To the objection that constructing a globe-encircling system of canals would be an impossible... | |
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...last strange pilgrimage down the river Iss, which leads no living Martian knows whither and from whose bosom no Martian has ever returned, or would be allowed...and my presence was discovered we were immediately surrounded by hundreds of the creatures who seemed anxious to pluck me from my seat behind my guard.... | |
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