Vast expanses of the Great Marshes were uninhabitable by man, and for a week we passed through dismal wastes where not even the savage aborigines could live; but we encountered other menaces in the form of great reptiles and gigantic insects, some of the latter being of enormous proportions with a wing-spread well over thirty feet. —Edgar Rice Burroughs, Synthetic Men of Mars
—Edgar Rice Burroughs, Synthetic Men of Mars