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04 - What the Footprints Told · Tarzan and the Golden Lion

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  Speaker 1: Chapter four what the footprints told. When jad Baljaw the
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  Speaker 1: Golden Mile was two years old, he was as magnificent
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  Speaker 1: as specimen of his kind as the grey Stokes had
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  Speaker 1: ever looked upon. In size, he was far above the
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  Speaker 1: average of that attained by mature males. In confirmation, he
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  Speaker 1: was superb his noble head and his great black mane,
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  Speaker 1: giving him the appearance of a full grown male, while
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  Speaker 1: in intelligence he far outranked his savage brothers of the forest.
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  Speaker 1: Jad Baljaw was a never ending source of pride and
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  Speaker 1: delight to the ape Man, who had trained him so
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  Speaker 1: carefully and nourished him cunningly for the purpose of developing
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  Speaker 1: to the full all the latent powers within him. The
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  Speaker 1: lion no longer slept at the foot of the master's bed,
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  Speaker 1: but occupied a strong cage that Tarzan had had constructed
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  Speaker 1: for him at the rear of the bungalow. For who
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  Speaker 1: knew better than the ape man that a lion, wherever
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  Speaker 1: he may be, or however he may have been raised,
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  Speaker 1: is yet a lion, a savage flesh eater. For the
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  Speaker 1: first year he had roamed at will about the house
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  Speaker 1: and grounds. After that he went abroad only in the
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  Speaker 1: company of Tarzan. Often the two roamed the plain and
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  Speaker 1: the jungle huntington. In a way, the lion was almost
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  Speaker 1: equally as familiar with Jane and Korak, and neither of
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  Speaker 1: them feared or mistrusted him. But toward Tarzan, of the
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  Speaker 1: apes did he show the greatest affection. The blacks of
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  Speaker 1: Tarzan's household he tolerated, nor did he ever offer to
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  Speaker 1: molest any of the domestic animals or fowl. After Tarzan
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  Speaker 1: had impressed upon him in his early cubhood that appropriate
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  Speaker 1: punishment followed immediately upon any predatory excursion into the corrals
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  Speaker 1: or hen houses. The fact that he was never permitted
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  Speaker 1: to become ravenously hungry was doubtless the deciding factor in
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  Speaker 1: safeguarding the live stock of the farm. The man and
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  Speaker 1: the beasts seemed to understand one another perfectly. It is
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  Speaker 1: doubtful that the lion understood all that Tarzan said to him,
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  Speaker 1: But be that as it may, the ease with which
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  Speaker 1: he communicated his wishes to the lion bordered upon the uncanny.
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  Speaker 1: The obedience that a combination of sternness and affection had
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  Speaker 1: elicited from the cub had become largely habit in the
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  Speaker 1: grown lion. At Tarzan's command, he would go to great
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  Speaker 1: distances and bring back antelope or zebra, laying his kill
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  Speaker 1: at his master's feet without offering to taste the flesh himself.
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  Speaker 1: And he had even retrieved living animals without harming them.
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  Speaker 1: Such then was the golden min that roamed the primeval
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  Speaker 1: forest with his god like master. It was at about
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  Speaker 1: this time that there commenced to drift into the eighte
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  Speaker 1: Man rumors of a predatory band to the west and
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  Speaker 1: south of his estate. Ugly stories of ivory ratings, slave running,
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  Speaker 1: and torture such as had not disturbed the quiet of
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  Speaker 1: the ape man's savage jungle since the days of the
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  Speaker 1: Sheikh amore Been Katour. And there came other tales too,
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  Speaker 1: that caused Tarzan the Apes to pucker his brows and
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  Speaker 1: puzzlement in thought. And then a month elapsed, during which
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  Speaker 1: Tarzan heard no more of the rumors from the west.
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  Speaker 1: The war had reduced the resources of the Greystokes to
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  Speaker 1: but a meager income. They had given practically all to
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  Speaker 1: the cause of the Allies, and now what little had
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  Speaker 1: remained to them had been all but exhausted. In the
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  Speaker 1: rehabilitation of Tarzan's African estate. It looks very much, Jane,
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  Speaker 1: he said to his wife one night, as though another
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  Speaker 1: trip to Opar were on the books. I dread to
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  Speaker 1: think of it. I do not want you to go,
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  Speaker 1: she said. You have come away from that awful city twice,
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  Speaker 1: but barely with your life. The third time. You may
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  Speaker 1: not be so fortunate. We have enough, John, to permit
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  Speaker 1: us to live here in comfort and in happiness. Why
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  Speaker 1: jeopardize those two things, which are greater than all wealth
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  Speaker 1: in another attempt to raid the treasure vaults. There is
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  Speaker 1: no danger, Jane, he assured her. The last time Werper
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  Speaker 1: dogged my footsteps, and between him and the earthquake, I
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  Speaker 1: was nearly done for. But there is no chance of
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  Speaker 1: any such combination of circumstances thwarting me again. You will
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  Speaker 1: not go alone, John, she asked. You will take Korak
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  Speaker 1: with you? No, he said, I will not take him.
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  Speaker 1: He must remain here with you, For really, my long
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  Speaker 1: absences are more dangerous to you than to me. I
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  Speaker 1: shall take fifty of the Waziri as porters to carry
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  Speaker 1: the gold, and thus we should be able to bring
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  Speaker 1: out enough to last us for a long time and
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  Speaker 1: jot Balja, she asked, shall you take him? No, he
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  Speaker 1: had better remain here. Korak can look after him and
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  Speaker 1: take him out for a hunt occasionally. I am going
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  Speaker 1: to travel light and fast, and it would be too
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  Speaker 1: hard a trip for him. Lions don't care to move
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  Speaker 1: around much in the hot sun, and as we shall
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  Speaker 1: travel mostly by day, I doubt if jod Balja would
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  Speaker 1: last long. And so it befell that Tarzan of the
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  Speaker 1: Apes set out once more upon the long trail that
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  Speaker 1: leads to Opar. Behind him march fifty giant Waziri, the
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  Speaker 1: pick of the warlike tribe that it had adopted Tarzan
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  Speaker 1: as its chief. Upon the veranda of the bungalow stood
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  Speaker 1: Jane and Korak, waving their adieu, while from the rear
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  Speaker 1: of the building there came to the ape man's ears
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  Speaker 1: the rumbling roar of jod Baljaw the Golden Lion, And
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  Speaker 1: as they marched away, the voice of Numa accompanied them
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  Speaker 1: out upon the rolling plane, until at last it trailed
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  Speaker 1: off to nothingness in the distance. His speed determined by
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  Speaker 1: that of the slowest of the blacks, Tarzan made but
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  Speaker 1: comparatively rapid progress Opar lay a good twenty five days
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  Speaker 1: trek from the farm. For men traveling light as were these,
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  Speaker 1: but upon the return journey, laden as they would be
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  Speaker 1: with the ingots of gold, their progress would be slower,
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  Speaker 1: And because of this the ape Man had allotted two
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  Speaker 1: months for the venture. His safari, consisting of seasoned warriors,
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  Speaker 1: only permitted of really rapid progress. They carried no supplies,
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  Speaker 1: for they were all hunters and were moving through a
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  Speaker 1: country in which game was abundant. No need then, for
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  Speaker 1: burdening themselves with the cumbersome and PEDIMENTA of white huntsmen,
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  Speaker 1: a thorn, boma and a few leaves furnished their shelter
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  Speaker 1: for the night, while spears and arrows, in the powers
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  Speaker 1: of their great white chief, ensured that their bellies would
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  Speaker 1: never go empty. With depict men that he had brought
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  Speaker 1: with him, Tarzan expected to make the trip to Opar
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  Speaker 1: in twenty one days, though had he been traveling alone,
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  Speaker 1: he would have moved two or three times as fast,
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  Speaker 1: since when Tarzan elected to travel with speed, he fairly
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  Speaker 1: flew through the jungle, equally at home in it by
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  Speaker 1: day or by night, and practically tireless. It was a
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  Speaker 1: mid afternoon the third week of the March that Tarzan,
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  Speaker 1: ranging far ahead of his blacks in search of game,
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  Speaker 1: came suddenly upon the carcass of Bara, the deer, a
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  Speaker 1: feathered arrow protruding from its flank. It was evident that
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  Speaker 1: Barra had been wounded at some little distance from where
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  Speaker 1: it had lain down to die, where the location of
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  Speaker 1: the missile indicated that the wound could not have caused
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  Speaker 1: immediate death. But what particularly caught the attention of the
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  Speaker 1: ape man, even before he had come close enough to
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  Speaker 1: make a minute examination, was the design of the arrow,
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  Speaker 1: And immediately he withdrew it from the body of the deer,
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  Speaker 1: he knew it for what it was, and was filled
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  Speaker 1: with such wonderment as might come to you or to
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  Speaker 1: me were we to see a native Swazi head dress
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  Speaker 1: upon Broadway or the Strand. For the air was precisely
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  Speaker 1: such as one may purchase in most any sporting goods
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  Speaker 1: house in any large city of the world, Such an
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  Speaker 1: arrow as is sold and used for archery practice in
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  Speaker 1: the parks and suburbs. Nothing could have been more incongruous
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  Speaker 1: than this silly toy in the heart of savage Africa.
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  Speaker 1: And yet that it had done its work effectively was
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  Speaker 1: evident by the dead body of Barra, though the ape
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  Speaker 1: man guessed that the shaft had been sped by no
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  Speaker 1: practice savage hand. Tarzan's curiosity was aroused, and also his
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  Speaker 1: inherent jungle caution. One must know his jungle well to
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  Speaker 1: survive long in the jungle, and if one would know
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  Speaker 1: it well, he must let no unusual occurrence or circumstance
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  Speaker 1: go unexplained. And so it was that Tarzan set out
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  Speaker 1: upon the back track of Barra for the purpose of ascertaining,
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  Speaker 1: if possible, the nature of Bara's slayer. The bloody spoor
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  Speaker 1: was easily followed in. The ape man wondered why it
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  Speaker 1: was that the hunter had not tracked and overtaken his quarry,
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  Speaker 1: which had evidently been dead since the previous day. He
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  Speaker 1: found that Bara had traveled far, and the sun was
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  Speaker 1: already low in the west before Tarzan came upon the
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  Speaker 1: first indications of the slayer of the animal. These were
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  Speaker 1: in the nature of footprints that filled him with quite
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  Speaker 1: as much surprised as had the arrow. He examined them carefully, and,
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  Speaker 1: stooping low, even sniffed at them with his sensitive nostrils. Improbable,
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  Speaker 1: nay impossible, though it seemed the naked footprints were those
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  Speaker 1: of a white man, a large man, probably as large
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  Speaker 1: as Tarzan himself. As the foster son of Kalas stood
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  Speaker 1: gazing upon the spoor of the mysterious stranger, he ran
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  Speaker 1: the fingers of one hand through his thick black hair,
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  Speaker 1: in a characteristic gesture indicative of deep puzzlement. What naked
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  Speaker 1: white man could there be in Tarzan's jungle? Who slew
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  Speaker 1: Tarzan's game with the pretty arrow of an archery club.
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  Speaker 1: It was incredible that there should be such a one,
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  Speaker 1: And yet there recurred to the ape Man's mind the
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  Speaker 1: vague rumors that he had heard weeks before. Determined to
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  Speaker 1: solve the mystery, he set out now upon the trail
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  Speaker 1: of the stranger, an erratic trail which wound about through
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  Speaker 1: the jungle, apparently aimlessly prompted Tarzan, guested by the ignorance
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  Speaker 1: of an inexperienced hunter. But night fell before he had
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  Speaker 1: arrived at a solution of the riddle, and it was
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  Speaker 1: pitch dark as the ape Man turned his steps toward camp.
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  Speaker 1: He knew that his wazir would be expecting meat, and
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  Speaker 1: it was not Tarzan's intention to disappoint them, though He
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  Speaker 1: then discovered that he was not the only carnivore hunting
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  Speaker 1: the district that night. The coughing grunt of a lion
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  Speaker 1: close by apprised him of at first, and then from
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  Speaker 1: the distance the deep roar of another. But of what
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  Speaker 1: moment was it to the ape man that others hunted.
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  Speaker 1: It would not be the first time that he had
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  Speaker 1: pitted his cunning, his strength, and his agility against the
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  Speaker 1: other hunters of his savage world, both man and beast,
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  Speaker 1: And so it was that Tarzan made his kill at last,
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  Speaker 1: snatching it almost from under the nose of a disappointed
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  Speaker 1: and infuriated lion, a fat antelope that the latter had
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  Speaker 1: marked as his own. Throwing his kill to his shoulder,
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  Speaker 1: almost in the path of the charging numa, the ape
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  Speaker 1: man swung lightly to the lower terraces, and with a
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  Speaker 1: taunting laugh for the infuriated cat, vanished noiselessly into the night.
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  Speaker 1: He found the camp and his hungry waziri without trouble,
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  Speaker 1: and so great was their faith in him that they
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  Speaker 1: had not for a moment doubted that he would return
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  Speaker 1: with meat for them. Early the following morning, Tarzan set
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  Speaker 1: out again toward Opar and directing his waziri to continue
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  Speaker 1: the march in the most direct way, he left them
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  Speaker 1: that he might pursue further his investigations of the mysterious
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  Speaker 1: presence in his jungle. That the arrow in the footsteps
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  Speaker 1: had apprised him of, coming again to the spot at
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  Speaker 1: which darkness had forced him to abandon his investigations, he
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  Speaker 1: took up the spoor of the stranger, Nor had he
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  Speaker 1: followed it far before he came upon further evidence of
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  Speaker 1: the presence of his new and belign personality. Stretched before
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  Speaker 1: him on the trail was the body of a giant ape,
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  Speaker 1: one of the tribe of great anthropoids among whom Tarzan
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  Speaker 1: had been raised. Protruding from the hairy abmin of the Mangani,
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  Speaker 1: was another of the machine made arrows of civilization. The
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  Speaker 1: ape man's eyes narrowed and a scalp darkened his brow.
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  Speaker 1: Who was this who dared invade his sacred preserves and
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  Speaker 1: slaughter thus ruthlessly Tarzan's people? A low growl rumbled in
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  Speaker 1: the throat of the ape man. Slothed with the habiliments
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  Speaker 1: of civilization. Was the thin veneer of civilization that Tarzan wore.
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  Speaker 1: Among white men, no English lord was this who looked
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  Speaker 1: upon the corpse of his hairy cousin, but another jungle beast,
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  Speaker 1: in whose breast raged the unquenchable fire of suspicion and
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  Speaker 1: hatred for the man thing that is the heritage of
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  Speaker 1: the jungle bread a beast of prey viewed the bloody
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  Speaker 1: work of ruthless man. Nor was there in the consciousness
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  Speaker 1: of Tarzan any acknowledgment of his blood relationship to the killer.
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  Speaker 1: Realizing that the trail had been made upon the second
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  Speaker 1: day before Tarzan hastened on in pursuit of the slayer,
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  Speaker 1: there was no doubt in his mind but that plain
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  Speaker 1: murder had been committed, for he was sufficiently familiar with
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  Speaker 1: the traits of the Mangani to know that none of
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  Speaker 1: them would provoke assault unless driven to it. Tarzan was
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  Speaker 1: traveling upwind, and some half hour after he had discovered
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  Speaker 1: the body of the ape, his keen nostrils caught the
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  Speaker 1: sense for of others of its kind. Knowing the timidity
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  Speaker 1: of these fierce denizens of the jungle, he moved forward,
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  Speaker 1: now with great weariness, lest warned of his approach that
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  Speaker 1: take flight before they were aware of his identity. He
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  Speaker 1: did not see them often, yet he knew that there
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  Speaker 1: were always those among them who recalled him, and that
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  Speaker 1: through these he could always establish amicable relations with the
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  Speaker 1: balance of the trial. Owing to the denseness of the undergrowth,
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  Speaker 1: Tarzan chose the middle terraces for his advance, and here,
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  Speaker 1: swinging breely and swiftly among the leafy boughs, he came
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  Speaker 1: presently upon the giant anthropoids. There were about twenty of
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  Speaker 1: them in the band, and they were engaged in a
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  Speaker 1: little natural clearing, in their never ending search for caterpillars
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  Speaker 1: and beetles, which formed important items in the diet of
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  Speaker 1: the mangani. A faint smile overspread the ape man's face
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  Speaker 1: as he paused upon a great branch, himself hidden by
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  Speaker 1: the leafy foliage about him, and watched the little band
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  Speaker 1: below him. Every action, every movement of the great apes
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  Speaker 1: recalled vividly to Tarzan's mind the long years of his childhood,
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  Speaker 1: when protected by the fierce mother love of Kala, the
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  Speaker 1: she ape, he had ranged the jungle with the tribe
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  Speaker 1: of Kerchak. In the romping young he saw again Nita
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  Speaker 1: and his other childhood playmates, and the adults, all the
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  Speaker 1: great savage brutes he had feared in youth and conquered
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  Speaker 1: in manhood. The ways of man may change, but the
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  Speaker 1: ways of the ape are the same, yesterday to day
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  Speaker 1: and forever. He watched them in silence for some minutes.
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  Speaker 1: How glad they would be to see him when they
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  Speaker 1: discovered his identity, For Tarzan of the Apes was known
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  Speaker 1: the length and the breadth of the great Jungle, as
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  Speaker 1: the friend and protector of the Mangani. At first, they
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  Speaker 1: would growl at him and threaten him, for they would
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  Speaker 1: not depend solely on either their eyes or their ears
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  Speaker 1: for confirmation of his identity. Not until he had entered
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  Speaker 1: the clearing and bristling bulls with bared fighting fangs had
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  Speaker 1: circled him stiffly, until they had come close enough for
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  Speaker 1: their nostrils to verify the evidence of their eyes and ears.
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  Speaker 1: Would they finally accept him, then, doubtless there would be
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  Speaker 1: great excitement for a few minutes, until, following the instincts
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  Speaker 1: of the ape mind, their attention was weaned from him
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  Speaker 1: by a blowing leaf, a caterpillar, or a bird's egg,
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  Speaker 1: And then they would move about their business, taking no
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  Speaker 1: further notice of him, more than any other member of
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  Speaker 1: the tribe, but this would not come until after each
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  Speaker 1: individual had smelt of him and perhaps pawed his flesh
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  Speaker 1: with calloused hands. Now it was that Tarzan made a
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  Speaker 1: friendly sound of greeting, and as the apes looked up,
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  Speaker 1: stepped from his concealment into plain view of them. I
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  Speaker 1: am Tarzan of the Apes, he said, mighty fighter, friend
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  Speaker 1: of the Mangani. Tarzan comes in friendship to his people.
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  Speaker 1: And with these words he dropped lightly to the lush
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  Speaker 1: grass of the clearing. Instantly pandemonium reigned, screaming warnings. The
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  Speaker 1: sheaves raced with the young for the opposite side of
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  Speaker 1: the clearing, while the bulls, bristling and growling, faced the
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  Speaker 1: intruder come. Cried Tarzan, do you not know me? I
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  Speaker 1: am Tarzan of the Apes, friend of the Mangani, son
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  Speaker 1: of Kala and king of the tribe of Kerchak. We
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  Speaker 1: know you, growled one of the old bulls. Yesterday we
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  Speaker 1: saw you when you killed Gobu. Go away or we
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  Speaker 1: shall kill you. I did not kill Gobu, replied the ape. Man.
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  Speaker 1: I found his dead body yesterday and I was following
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  Speaker 1: the spoor of his slayer when I came upon you.
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  Speaker 1: We saw you repeated the old bull. Go away, or
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  Speaker 1: we shall kill you. You are no longer the friend
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  Speaker 1: of the Mangani. The ape man stood with brows contracted
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  Speaker 1: in thought. It was evident that these apes really believed
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  Speaker 1: that they had seen him kill their fellow. What was
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  Speaker 1: the explanation? How could it be accounted for? Did the
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  Speaker 1: naked footprints of the great white man whom he had
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  Speaker 1: been following mean more than than he had guessed? Tarzan wondered.
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  Speaker 1: He raised his eyes and again addressed the bulls. It
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  Speaker 1: was not I who killed Gobu, he insisted. Many of
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  Speaker 1: you have known me all your lives. You know that
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  Speaker 1: only in fair fight, as one bull fights another, have
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  Speaker 1: I ever killed a Mangani. You know that of all
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  Speaker 1: the jungle people, the Mangani are my best friends, and
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  Speaker 1: that Tarzan of the Apes is the best friend the
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  Speaker 1: Mangani have. How then could I slay one of my
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  Speaker 1: own people we only know? Replied the old bull, that
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  Speaker 1: we saw you kill Gobu with our own eyes. We
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  Speaker 1: saw you kill him. Go away quickly therefore, or we
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  Speaker 1: shall kill you. Mighty fighter is Tarzan of the Apes,
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  Speaker 1: But mightier even than he are all the great bulls
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  Speaker 1: of path. I am Path, king of the tribe of Path,
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  Speaker 1: go away before we kill you. Tarzan tried to reason
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  Speaker 1: with them, but they would not listen, so confident were
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  Speaker 1: they that it was he who had slain their fe
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  Speaker 1: the bull Gobu. Finally, rather than chance a quarrel in
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  Speaker 1: which some of them must inevitably be killed, he turned
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  Speaker 1: sorrowfully away. But more than ever now was he determined
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  Speaker 1: to seek out the slayer of Gobu, that he might
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  Speaker 1: demand an accounting of one who dared thus invade his
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  Speaker 1: life long domain. Tarzan trailed the spoor until it mingled
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  Speaker 1: with the tracks of many men, barefooted blacks mostly, but
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  Speaker 1: among them the footprints of booted white men, and once
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  Speaker 1: he saw the footprints of a woman or a child,
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  Speaker 1: which he could not tell. The trail led apparently toward
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  Speaker 1: the rocky hills which protected the barren valley of Opar.
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  Speaker 1: Forgetful now of his original mission, and imbued only with
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  Speaker 1: a savage desire to wrest from the interlopers of full
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  Speaker 1: accounting for their presence in the jungle, and to meet
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  Speaker 1: out to the slayer of Gobu his just deserts. Tarzan
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  Speaker 1: forged ahead upon the now broad and well marked trail
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  Speaker 1: of the considerable party, which could not now be much
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  Speaker 1: more than a half day's march ahead of him, which
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  Speaker 1: meant that they were doubtless now already upon the rim
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  Speaker 1: of the valley of Opar. If this was their ultimate destination,
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  Speaker 1: and what other they could have in view, Tarzan could
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  Speaker 1: not imagine. He had always kept closely to himself the
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  Speaker 1: location of Opar, and so far as he knew, no
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  Speaker 1: white person other than Jane and their son Korak knew
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  Speaker 1: of the location of the forgotten city of the ancient Atlanteans.
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  Speaker 1: Yet what else could have drawn these white men was
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  Speaker 1: so large a party into the savage, unexplored wilderness which
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  Speaker 1: hemmed Opar upon all sides. Such were the thoughts that
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  Speaker 1: occupied Tarzan's mind as he followed swiftly the trail that
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  Speaker 1: led toward Opar. Darkness fell, but so fresh was the
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  Speaker 1: spore that the ape man could follow it by scent,
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  Speaker 1: even when he could not see the imprints upon the ground,
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  Speaker 1: And presently in the distance he saw the light of
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  Speaker 1: a camp ahead of him. End of Chapter