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VIEWS OF AFRICAN DRYLANDS - DROUGHT
The
remorseless drought had lasted now for ten million years,
and would
not end for another million. The reign of the ter-
rible lizards had
long since passed, but here on the continent
which would one day be
known as Africa, the battle for survival
had reached a new climax of
ferocity, and the victor was not
yet in sight. In this dry and barren
land, only the small or
the swift or the fierce could flourish, or
even hope to exist.
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INT
& EXT CAVES - MOONWATCHER
The man-apes of the field had none
of these attributes, and
they were on the long, pathetic road to
racial extinction.
About twenty of them occupied a group of caves
overlooking
a small, parched valley, divided by a sluggish, brown
stream.
The tribe had always been hungry, and now it was
starving.
As the first dim glow of dawn creeps into the cave,
Moonwatcher
discovers that his father has died during the night. He
did not know
the Old One was his father, for such a relationship was
beyond
his understanding. but as he stands looking down at the emac-
iated
body he feels something, something akin to sadness. Then
he carries
his dead father out of the cave, and leaves him for the
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