The Lost World – Chapter 14-tiivistelmä

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1. The explorers plan to seek shelter with the Indians, but an ape-man kills a water carrier and nearly strangles the narrator.
2. Lord John rescues the narrator, and the party leaves the woods to meet an armed Accala force beside the lake.
3. The explorers agree to fight alongside the Accala, then observe owned iguanodons, combustible gas, and remarkable lake creatures.
4. The next morning, rifles help the Accala overcome fierce resistance in the forest and send the ape-men fleeing.
5. The Accala kill the surviving males at the cliff and take the females and young into captivity.
6. The explorers regain their supplies and contact with Zambo, and Summerlee demands that Challenger concentrate on escape.

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The narrator interrupts Challenger’s triumph with moral doubt. The sentence highlights the gap between celebrating conquest and witnessing its human and animal cost.

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