At the Earth's Core

She was quite as positive that creation was originated solely to produce her own kind and the world she lived in as are many of the outer world. Perry shook his head—there was a strange expression in his eyes. “Let’s have a look beyond that door, David,” he cried. The females never learn them, since from birth to death they never leave the clearing in which the village of their nativity is situated except they be taken to mate by a male from another village, or captured in war by the enemies of their tribe. Ghak finally solved the problem, in part, by lifting Perry in his powerful arms and carrying him.