'It is a beautiful land. It could be paradise...

'There was no sign of life below! Just stark, awful desolation spreading to the farthest horizon.'

'The thing, which more nearly resembled our earthly men than it did the Martians I had seen, held me pinioned to the ground with one huge foot...'

'There is no feeling of charity in Pellucidar.'

'We have opened the gates that none may close.'

'Every time I saw a chance to slip away from the caravan and consult my compass, I did so.'

'To a stranger in a strange land, she posessed an inestimable value.'

'In a sane and logical world it would have meant nothing, in Pellucidar it might mean almost anything.'

'Below me, the trees of the forest were just becoming visible. Here there was life.'

'Instead of the softening effect of time, the works of humans in this forgotten world appeared as though they might have been left upon their completion.'

'The lazy brute, Perry, is the real genius. How he ever did it I do not know, but he did.'

'The felucca in harbour is the Maharan's.'

'I reached the cliff edge above Ja and helped him to a secure footing.'

'Ghak, let us alliance together to hunt down this Tarzan-Jad-Guru.'

At the Earth’s Core