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Chapter XV · Chapter 15

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GORE AND DREAMS It was a two-masted felucca with lateen sails!
The craft was long and low.
In it were more than fifty men, twenty or thirty of whom were at oars with which the craft was being propelled from the lee of the land.
I was dumbfounded.
Could it be that the savage, painted natives I had seen on shore had so perfected the art of navigation that they were masters of such advanced building and rigging as this craft proclaimed?
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Pellucidar

Chapter XV · Chapter 15

Chapter 15 of Pellucidar is here in full — 208 sentences across 42 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Reading 1/41 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

Line 1
GORE AND DREAMS It was a two-masted felucca with lateen sails!
Line 2
The craft was long and low.
Line 3
In it were more than fifty men, twenty or thirty of whom were at oars with which the craft was being propelled from the lee of the land.
Line 4
I was dumbfounded.
Line 5
Could it be that the savage, painted natives I had seen on shore had so perfected the art of navigation that they were masters of such advanced building and rigging as this craft proclaimed?

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a

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advanced

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AND

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From this reading GORE AND DREAMS It was a two-masted felucca with lateen sails!

art

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as

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From this reading Could it be that the savage, painted natives I had seen on shore had so perfected the art of navigation that they were masters of such advanced building and rigging as this craft proclaimed?

at

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From this reading In it were more than fifty men, twenty or thirty of whom were at oars with which the craft was being propelled from the lee of the land.

be

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being

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From this reading In it were more than fifty men, twenty or thirty of whom were at oars with which the craft was being propelled from the lee of the land.

building

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Could

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From this reading Could it be that the savage, painted natives I had seen on shore had so perfected the art of navigation that they were masters of such advanced building and rigging as this craft proclaimed?

craft

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From this reading The craft was long and low.

DREAMS

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From this reading GORE AND DREAMS It was a two-masted felucca with lateen sails!

dumbfounded

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From this reading I was dumbfounded.

felucca

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From this reading GORE AND DREAMS It was a two-masted felucca with lateen sails!

fifty

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from

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From this reading In it were more than fifty men, twenty or thirty of whom were at oars with which the craft was being propelled from the lee of the land.

GORE

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From this reading GORE AND DREAMS It was a two-masted felucca with lateen sails!

had

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I

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From this reading I was dumbfounded.

In

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From this reading In it were more than fifty men, twenty or thirty of whom were at oars with which the craft was being propelled from the lee of the land.

It

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land

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lateen

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From this reading GORE AND DREAMS It was a two-masted felucca with lateen sails!

lee

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From this reading In it were more than fifty men, twenty or thirty of whom were at oars with which the craft was being propelled from the lee of the land.

long

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From this reading The craft was long and low.

low

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From this reading The craft was long and low.

masters

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men

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more

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natives

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navigation

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oars

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of

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on

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or

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painted

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perfected

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proclaimed

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propelled

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rigging

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sails

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From this reading GORE AND DREAMS It was a two-masted felucca with lateen sails!

savage

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From this reading Could it be that the savage, painted natives I had seen on shore had so perfected the art of navigation that they were masters of such advanced building and rigging as this craft proclaimed?

seen

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shore

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From this reading Could it be that the savage, painted natives I had seen on shore had so perfected the art of navigation that they were masters of such advanced building and rigging as this craft proclaimed?

so

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From this reading Could it be that the savage, painted natives I had seen on shore had so perfected the art of navigation that they were masters of such advanced building and rigging as this craft proclaimed?

such

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From this reading Could it be that the savage, painted natives I had seen on shore had so perfected the art of navigation that they were masters of such advanced building and rigging as this craft proclaimed?

than

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From this reading In it were more than fifty men, twenty or thirty of whom were at oars with which the craft was being propelled from the lee of the land.

that

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From this reading Could it be that the savage, painted natives I had seen on shore had so perfected the art of navigation that they were masters of such advanced building and rigging as this craft proclaimed?

The

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From this reading The craft was long and low.

they

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From this reading Could it be that the savage, painted natives I had seen on shore had so perfected the art of navigation that they were masters of such advanced building and rigging as this craft proclaimed?

thirty

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this

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twenty

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From this reading In it were more than fifty men, twenty or thirty of whom were at oars with which the craft was being propelled from the lee of the land.

two-masted

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From this reading GORE AND DREAMS It was a two-masted felucca with lateen sails!

was

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From this reading GORE AND DREAMS It was a two-masted felucca with lateen sails!

were

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From this reading In it were more than fifty men, twenty or thirty of whom were at oars with which the craft was being propelled from the lee of the land.

which

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From this reading In it were more than fifty men, twenty or thirty of whom were at oars with which the craft was being propelled from the lee of the land.

whom

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From this reading In it were more than fifty men, twenty or thirty of whom were at oars with which the craft was being propelled from the lee of the land.

with

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From this reading GORE AND DREAMS It was a two-masted felucca with lateen sails!

Chapter 15 of Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs holds 208 sentences, grouped into 42 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the public-domain source, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.

What does chapter 15 of Pellucidar contain?

Chapter 15 holds 208 sentences of Pellucidar, unabridged, divided into 42 reading sections.

This page carries chapter 15 of Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 208 sentences, grouped into 42 sections of at most 5 sentences so that a reader can take the chapter in steady, finishable pieces. The chapter also stores a coverage record mapping every one of its sentences to a part of the work, which is how the edition demonstrates that no line was dropped.

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Work through the 42 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.

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About 236 minutes of reading across 567 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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Several
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Years
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Since
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