Edgar Rice Burroughs Out of Time's Abyss - Online indir

This is the tale of Bradley after he left Fort Dinosaur upon the west coast of the great lakethat is in the center of the island.Upon the fourth day of September, 1916, he set out with four companions, Sinclair, Brady, James, and Tippet, to search along the base of the barrier cliffs for a point at which they might bescaled.Through the heavy Caspakian air, beneath the swollen sun, the five men marched northwestfrom Fort Dinosaur, now waist-deep in lush, jungle grasses starred with myriad gorgeousblooms, now across open meadow-land and parklike expanses and again plunging into denseforests of eucalyptus and acacia and giant arboreous ferns with feathered fronds waving gently ahundred feet above their heads.About them upon the ground, among the trees and in the air over them moved and swung andsoared the countless forms of Caspak's teeming life. Always were they menaced by somefrightful thing and seldom were their rifles cool, yet even in the brief time they had dwelt uponCaprona they had become callous to danger, so that they swung along laughing and chatting likesoldiers on a summer hike."This reminds me of South Clark Street," remarked Brady, who had once served on thetraffic squad in Chicago; and as no one asked him why, he volunteered that it was "because it'sno place for an Irishman.""South Clark Street and heaven have something in common, then," suggested Sinclair. Jamesand Tippet laughed, and then a hideous growl broke from a dense thicket ahead and divertedtheir attention to other matters