The Extermination of the Ape-Men

Events

• •The last eighty to a hundred male ape-men are cornered at the edge of the cliff.
• •The Accala spearmen thrust the survivors over the precipice onto the bamboo canes below.
• •Ape Town is completely destroyed by the victorious Indians.
• •The surviving ape-folk are relocated to the Indian caves to serve as 'hewers of wood and drawers of water.'

Origin

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Tension

• •The moral weight of having facilitated a genocide, even of a 'man-beast' species.

External

• •The 'horrible' wailings of the displaced ape-folk at night.
• •The physical danger of the 'avalanche of apes' falling from the cliff, which terrifies Zambo below.

Internal

• •The explorers' discomfort with the 'bloody end' of the rivalry they helped conclude.

Sequence

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Worldbuilding

• •The 'Jewish in Babylon' or 'Israelites in Egypt' analogy is used to describe the new social order.
• •The plateau's ecosystem is fundamentally altered by the removal of its primary anthropoid predator.

Status Changes

• •The ape-man race is reduced from a sovereign tribe to a 'servile race' in bondage.
• •The Accala achieve total territorial control of the plateau.

Narrative Summary

The war ends with the systematic destruction of the ape-man society, as the last survivors are driven over the same cliffs where they once executed their prisoners. The remaining females and young are forced into servile bondage under the Accala.

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