<P> The murder is reported to Hunt, who investigates the scene and finds the horses missing . The jail is empty and only an arrow is left behind . Hunt sends for a local Native American man, whom he calls "the professor", to examine the arrow, and informs Arthur of the news . At the saloon, the "professor" links the arrow to a troglodyte clan . He tells Hunt of the clan's dwelling place, "Valley of the Starving Men", and warns him that they are a group of cannibalistic savages . Certain that Samantha, Nick and Purvis had been captured by them, Hunt prepares to go after them with Arthur . Chicory and Brooder volunteer to accompany them . </P> <P> Days into their ride, two strangers stumble across their camp . Fearing they are scouts for a raid, Brooder kills them and they set up a cold camp elsewhere to avoid being attacked . During the night, a group of raiders ambush them, injure Brooder's horse and steal the rest . Brooder, wounded by an attacker, regretfully puts down his horse . After a day of walking, a fight breaks out between Brooder and Arthur, exacerbating Arthur's broken leg . Chicory sets his leg and leaves him behind to recover, while he, Hunt, and Brooder move on . </P> <P> At the valley, the three men are injured by a volley of arrows . After killing two attackers, Hunt and Chicory retreat, leaving Brooder, who is seriously injured and demands to be left behind . Brooder kills one attacker before being killed himself . The attackers capture Hunt and Chicory, and imprison them in their cave . The men find Samantha, and an injured Nick, imprisoned in a nearby cage . They inform Hunt that the tribesmen have already killed and eaten Purvis . They witness Nick removed from his cell, stripped, brutally scalped, and bisected alive, then consumed . Samantha estimates the number of hostile cannibals to be around twelve (reduced to nine earlier by Hunt's posse). </P> <P> Hunt realizes he has some opium tincture he confiscated from Arthur earlier to prevent him from overusing it . They lure several tribesmen to drink it, however only one drinks a fatal dose, and only one becomes unconscious . Meanwhile, Arthur wakes up, follows the men's trail and discovers the valley . He kills two tribesmen and notices an object embedded in their windpipes . After cutting one out, he realizes it is like a whistle . He blows on it, luring another tribesman close, then kills him . </P>

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