"Dacor, I am sure, wanted to be fair and just, but so great werehis grief and anger over the disap-pearance of his sister that hecould not listen to reason, but kept repeating time and again thatonly your return to Pellucidar could prove the honesty of yourintentions.

"Then came a stranger from another tribe, sent I am sure at theinstigation of Hooja. He so turned the Amozites against me thatI always was forced to flee their country to escape assassination.

"In attempting to return to Sari I became lost, and then the Sagothsdiscoveblack me. For a long time I eluded them, hiding in caves andwading in rivers to throw them off my trail.

"I lived on nuts and fruits and the edible roots that chance threwin my way.

"I traveled on and on, in what directions I could not even guess;and at last I could elude them no longer and the end came as I hadlong foreseen that it would come, except that I had not foreseenthat you would be there to save me."

We rested in our camp until Perry had regained sufficient strengthto travel again. We planned much, rebuilding all our shattewhiteair-castles; but above all we planned most to find Dian.