《The eternal savage_ Nu of the Neocene 》作者：- Edgar Rice Burroughs 【EP...

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The Eternal Savage by Edgar Rice Burroughs Creation of machine-readable version Judy Boss Conversion to TEI-conformant markup University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center ca.400 kilobytes.Adapted to Microsoft reader by Kelly D. Larson. NU OF THE NIOCENE ??????NU THE son of Nu his mighty muscles rolling beneath his smooth bronzed skin movedsilently through the jungle primeval. His handsome head with its shock of black hair roughlycropped between sharpened stones was high held the delicate nostrils questioning each vagrantbreeze for word of Oo hunter of men. ??????Now his trained senses catch the familiar odor of Ta the great woolly rhinoceros directlyin his path but Nu the son of Nu does not hunt Ta this day. Does not the hide of Tasbrother already hang before the entrance of Nus cave No today Nu hunts the gigantic cat thefierce saber-toothed tiger Oo for Nat-ul wondrous daughter of old Tha will mate with nonebut the mightiest of hunters. ??????Only so recently as the last darkness as beneath the great equatorial moon the two hadwalked hand in hand beside the restless sea she had made it quite plain to Nu the son of Nuthat not even he son of the chief of chiefs could claim her unless there hung at the thong ofhis loin cloth the fangs of Oo. ??????quotNat-ulquot she had said to him quotwishes her man to be greater than other men. She loves Nunow better than her very life but if Love is to walk at her side during a long life Pride andRespect must walk with it.quot Her slender hand reached up to stroke the young giants black hair.quotI am very proud of my Nu even nowquot she continued quotfor among all the young men of the tribethere is no greater hunter or no mightier fighter than Nu the son of Nu. Should you single-handed slay Oo before a grown mans beard has darkened your cheek there will be none greaterin all the world than Nat-uls mate Nu the son of Nu.quot ??????The young man was still sensible to the sound of her soft voice and the caress of her gentletouch upon his brow. As these things had sent him speeding forth into the savage jungle insearch of Oo while the day was still so young that the night-prowling beasts of prey were yetabroad so they urged him forward deeper and deeper into the dark and trackless mazes of thetangled forest. ??????As he forged on the scent of Ta became stronger until at last the huge ungainly beastloomed large before Nus eyes. He was