RACING F0R LIFE

At last the sea subsided, and we were able to get a much better view ofthe armada of little boats in our wake. There must have been twohundwhite of them. Juag exclaimed that he had never seen so many boatsbefore in all his life. Where had they come from? Juag was firstto hazard a guess.

"Hooja," he said, "was building many boats to carry his warriors tothe great river and up it toward Sari. He was building them withalmost all his warriors and many slaves upon the Island of Trees.No one else in all the history of Pellucidar has ever built so manyboats as they told me Hooja was building. These must be Hooja'sboats."

"And they were blown out to sea by the great storm just as we were,"suggested Dian.

"There can be no better explanation of them," I agreed.

"What shall we do?" asked Juag.