The entrance and a couple of them crawling in soon demolished all the eggs with their short-swords. Then remounting we dashed back to join the cavalcade. During the ride I took occasion to ask Tars Tarkas if these Warhoons whose eggs we had destroyed were a smaller people than his Tharks. "I noticed that their eggs were so much smaller than those I saw hatching in your incubator " I added. He explained that the eggs had just been placed there; but like all green Martian eggs they would grow during... read more
