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13 - His Own Kind · Tarzan of the Apes

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  Speaker 1: Chapter thirteen his own kind. The following morning, Tarzan, lame
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  Speaker 1: and sore from the wounds of his battle with Turkaus,
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  Speaker 1: set out toward the west and the sea coast. He
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  Speaker 1: traveled very slowly, sleeping in the jungle at night, and
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  Speaker 1: reaching his cabin late the following morning. For several days
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  Speaker 1: he moved about but little, only enough to gather what
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  Speaker 1: fruits and nuts he required to satisfy the demands of hunger.
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  Speaker 1: In ten days he was quite sound again, except for
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  Speaker 1: a terrible, half healed scar, which, starting above his left eye,
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  Speaker 1: ran across the top of his head, ending at the
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  Speaker 1: right ear. It was the mark left by Tarkauz when
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  Speaker 1: he had torn the scalp away. During his convalescence, Tarzan
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  Speaker 1: tried to fashion a mantle from the skin of Sabor,
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  Speaker 1: which had lain all this time in the cabin, but
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  Speaker 1: he found the hide had dried as stiff as a board,
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  Speaker 1: and as he knew not of tanning, he was forced
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  Speaker 1: to abandon his cherished plan. Then he determined to filch
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  Speaker 1: what few garments he could from one of the black
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  Speaker 1: men of Mbonga's village. For Tarzan of the Apes had
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  Speaker 1: decided to mark his evolution from the lower orders in
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  Speaker 1: every possible manner, and nothing seemed to him a more
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  Speaker 1: distinguishing badge of manhood than ornaments and clothing. To this end, therefore,
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  Speaker 1: he collected the various arm and leg ornaments he had
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  Speaker 1: taken from the black warriors who had succumbed to his
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  Speaker 1: swift and silent noose, and donned them all after the
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  Speaker 1: way he had seen them. Worn. About his neck hung
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  Speaker 1: the golden chain, from which depended the diamond encrusted locket
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  Speaker 1: of his mother, the Lady Alice. At his back was
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  Speaker 1: a quiver of arrows slung from a leathern shoulder belt,
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  Speaker 1: another piece of loot from some vanquished black. About his
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  Speaker 1: waist was a belt of tiny strips of rawhide, fashioned
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  Speaker 1: by himself as a support for the homemade scabbard in
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  Speaker 1: which hung his father's hunting liasknife. The long bow, which
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  Speaker 1: had been coolongus, hung over his left shoulder. The young
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  Speaker 1: Lord Greystoke was indeed a strange and warlike figure, his
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  Speaker 1: mass of black hair falling to his shoulders behind, and
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  Speaker 1: cut with his hunting knife to a rude bang upon
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  Speaker 1: his forehead that it might not fall before his eyes.
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  Speaker 1: His straight, imperfect figure muscled as the best of the
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  Speaker 1: ancient Roman gladiators must have been muscled, and yet with
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  Speaker 1: the soft and sinuous curves of a Greek god told
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  Speaker 1: at a glance the wondrous combination of enormous strength with
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  Speaker 1: suppleness and speed. A personification was Tarzan of the apes
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  Speaker 1: of the primitive man, the hunter, the warrior, with the
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  Speaker 1: noble poise of his handsome head upon those broad shoulders,
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  Speaker 1: and the fire of life and intelligence in those fine,
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  Speaker 1: clear eyes. He might readily have typified some demigod of
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  Speaker 1: a wild and warlike by bigone people of his ancient forest.
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  Speaker 1: But of these things Tarzan did not think. He was worried,
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  Speaker 1: because he had not clothing to indicate to all the
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  Speaker 1: jungle folks that he was a man and not an ape,
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  Speaker 1: and grave doubt often entered his mind as to whether
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  Speaker 1: he might not yet become an ape. Was not hair
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  Speaker 1: commencing to grow upon his face. All the apes had
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  Speaker 1: hair upon theirs, but the black men were entirely hairless,
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  Speaker 1: with very few exceptions. True, he had seen pictures in
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  Speaker 1: his books of men with great masses of hair upon
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  Speaker 1: lip and cheek and chin. But nevertheless, Tarzan was afraid
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  Speaker 1: almost daily he wetted his keen knife and scraped and
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  Speaker 1: whittled at his young beard to eradicate this degrading emblem
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  Speaker 1: of ape hood. And so he learned to shave rudely
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  Speaker 1: and painfully, it is true, but nevertheless effectively. When he
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  Speaker 1: felt quite strong again after his bloody battle with tor Cause,
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  Speaker 1: Tarzan set off one morning toward Mabonga's village. He was
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  Speaker 1: moving carelessly along a winding jungle trail instead of making
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  Speaker 1: his progress through the trees, when suddenly he came face
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  Speaker 1: to face with a black warrior. The look of surprise
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  Speaker 1: on the savage face was almost comical, and before Tarzan
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  Speaker 1: could unsling his bow, the fellow had turned and fled
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  Speaker 1: down the path, crying out in alarm, as though to
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  Speaker 1: others before him. Tarzan took to the trees in pursuit,
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  Speaker 1: and in a few moments came in view of the
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  Speaker 1: men desperately striving to escape. There were three of them,
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  Speaker 1: and they were racing madly in single file through the
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  Speaker 1: dense undergrowth. Tarzan easily distanced them. Nor did they see
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  Speaker 1: his silent passage above their heads, nor note the crouching
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  Speaker 1: figure squatted upon a low branch ahead of them. Beneath
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  Speaker 1: which the trail led them. Tarzan let the first two
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  Speaker 1: pass beneath him, but as the third came swiftly on
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  Speaker 1: the quiet noose dropped about the black throat, a quick
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  Speaker 1: jerk drew it taut. There was an agonized scream from
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  Speaker 1: the victim, and his fellows turned to see his struggling
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  Speaker 1: body rise by magic slowly into the dense foliage of
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  Speaker 1: the trees above. With frightened shrieks, they wheeled once more
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  Speaker 1: and plunged on in their efforts to escape. Tarzan dispatched
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  Speaker 1: his prisoner quickly and silently removed the weapons and ornaments, and, oh,
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  Speaker 1: the greatest joy of all, a handsome deer skin breechcloth,
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  Speaker 1: which he quickly transferred to his own person. Now, indeed,
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  Speaker 1: was he dressed as a man should be. None there
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  Speaker 1: was who could now doubt his high origin. How he
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  Speaker 1: should have liked to have returned to the tribe to
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  Speaker 1: parade before their envious gaze. This wondrous finery. Taking the
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  Speaker 1: body across his shoulder, he moved more slowly through the
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  Speaker 1: trees toward the little palisaded village, for he again needed arrows.
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  Speaker 1: As he approached quite close to the enclosure, he saw
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  Speaker 1: an excited group surrounding the two fugitives, who, trembling with
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  Speaker 1: fright and exhaustion, were scarce able to recount the uncanny
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  Speaker 1: details of their adventure. Miranda, they said, who had been
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  Speaker 1: ahead of them a short distance, had suddenly come screaming
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  Speaker 1: toward them, crying that a terrible, white and naked warrior
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  Speaker 1: was pursuing him. The three of them had hurried toward
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  Speaker 1: the village as rapidly as their legs would carry them. Again,
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  Speaker 1: Miranda's shrill cry of mortal terror had caused them to
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  Speaker 1: look back, and there they had seen the most horrible sight,
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  Speaker 1: their companion's body flying upwards into the trees, his arms
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  Speaker 1: and legs beating the air, and his tongue protruding from
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  Speaker 1: his open mouth. No other sound did he utter, nor
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  Speaker 1: was there any creature in sight about him. The villages
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  Speaker 1: were worked up into a state of fear bordering on panic,
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  Speaker 1: but wise old Mbonga affected to feel considerable skepticism regarding
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  Speaker 1: the tale, and attributed the whole old fabrication to their
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  Speaker 1: fright in the face of some real danger. You tell
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  Speaker 1: us this great story, he said, because you do not
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  Speaker 1: dare to speak the truth you do not dare admit that,
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  Speaker 1: when the lion sprang upon Mirando, you ran away and
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  Speaker 1: left him. You are cowards. Scarcely had Mabonga ceased speaking,
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  Speaker 1: when a great crashing of branches in the trees above
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  Speaker 1: them caused the Blacks to look up and renewed terror.
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  Speaker 1: The sight that met their eyes made even wise old
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  Speaker 1: Mabonga shudder, for there, turning and twisting in the air,
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  Speaker 1: came the dead body of Mirando to sprawl, with a
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  Speaker 1: sickening reverberation, upon the ground at their feet. With one accord,
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  Speaker 1: the blacks took to their heels, nor did they stop
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  Speaker 1: until the last of them was lost in the dense
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  Speaker 1: shadows of the surrounding jungle. Again, Tarzan came down into
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  Speaker 1: the village and renewed his supply of arrows and ate
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  Speaker 1: of the offering of food which the Blacks had made
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  Speaker 1: to appease his wrath. Before he left, he carried the
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  Speaker 1: body of Miranda to the gate of the village and
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  Speaker 1: propped it up against the palisade in such a way
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  Speaker 1: that the dead face seemed to be peering around the
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  Speaker 1: edge of the gate post down the path which led
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  Speaker 1: to the jungle. Then Tarzan returned, hunting, always hunting, to
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  Speaker 1: the cabin by the beach. It took a dozen attempts
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  Speaker 1: on the part of the thoroughly frightened Blacks to re
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  Speaker 1: enter their village past the horrible, grinning face of their
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  Speaker 1: dead fellow, And when they found the food and arrows gone,
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  Speaker 1: they knew what they had only too well feared that
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  Speaker 1: Mirando had seen the evil spirit of the jungle. That
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  Speaker 1: now seemed to them the logical explanation. Only those who
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  Speaker 1: saw this terrible god of the jungle died. For was
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  Speaker 1: it not true that none left alive in the village
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  Speaker 1: had ever seen him. Therefore, those who had died at
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  Speaker 1: his hands must have seen him and paid the penalty
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  Speaker 1: with their lives. As long as they supplied him with
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  Speaker 1: arrows and food, he would not harm them unless they
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  Speaker 1: looked upon him. So it was ordered by Mbonga that
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  Speaker 1: in addition to the food offering, there should also be
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  Speaker 1: laid out an offering of arrows for this Munango Kiwati,
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  Speaker 1: and this was done from then on. If you ever
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  Speaker 1: chanced to pass that far off African village, you will
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  Speaker 1: still see before a tiny thatched hut built just without
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  Speaker 1: the village, a little iron pot, in which is a
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  Speaker 1: quantity of food, and beside it a quiver of well
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  Speaker 1: daubed arrows. When Tarzan came in sight of the beach
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  Speaker 1: where stood his cabin, a strange and unusual spectacle met
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  Speaker 1: his vision. On the placid waters of the landlocked harbor
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  Speaker 1: floated a great ship, and on the beach a small
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  Speaker 1: boat was drawn up. But most wonderful of all, a
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  Speaker 1: number of white men, like himself were moving about between
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  Speaker 1: the beach and his cabin. Tarzan saw that in many
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  Speaker 1: ways they were like the of his picture books. He
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  Speaker 1: crept closer through the trees until he was quite close
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  Speaker 1: above them, there were ten men, swarthy, sun tanned, villainous
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  Speaker 1: looking fellows. Now they had congregated by the boat, and
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  Speaker 1: were talking in loud, angry tones, with much gesticulating and
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  Speaker 1: shaking of fists. Presently, one of them, a little, mean faced,
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  Speaker 1: black bearded fellow, with a countenance which reminded Tarzan of Pamba.
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  Speaker 1: The rat, laid his hand upon the shoulder of a
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  Speaker 1: giant who stood next him, and with whom all the
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  Speaker 1: others had been arguing and quarreling. The little man pointed inland,
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  Speaker 1: so that the giant was forced to turn away from
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  Speaker 1: the others to look in the direction indicated. As he turned,
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  Speaker 1: the little mean faced man drew a revolver from his
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  Speaker 1: belt and shot the giant in the back. The big
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  Speaker 1: fellow threw his hands above his head, his knees bent
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  Speaker 1: beneath him, and without a sound, he tumbled forward upon
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  Speaker 1: the beach dead. The report of the weapon, the first
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  Speaker 1: that Tarzan had ever heard, filled him with wonderment. But
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  Speaker 1: even this unaccustomed sound could not startle his healthy nerves
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  Speaker 1: into even as semblance of panic. The conduct of the
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  Speaker 1: white strangers, it was, that caused him the greatest perturbation.
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  Speaker 1: He puckered his brows into a frown of deep thought.
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  Speaker 1: It was well thought he that he had not given
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  Speaker 1: way to his first impulse to rush forward and greet
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  Speaker 1: these white men as brothers. They were evidently no different
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  Speaker 1: from the black men, no more civilized than the apes,
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  Speaker 1: no less cruel than sabor. For a moment, the others
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  Speaker 1: stood looking at the little mean faced man and the
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  Speaker 1: giant lying dead upon the beach. Then one of them
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  Speaker 1: laughed and slapped the little man upon the back. There
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  Speaker 1: was much more talk and gesticulating, but less quarreling. Presently
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  Speaker 1: they launched the boat, and all jumped into it and
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  Speaker 1: rowed away toward the great ship, where Tarzan could see
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  Speaker 1: other figures moving about upon the deck. When they had
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  Speaker 1: clambered aboard, Tarzan dropped to earth behind a great tree
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  Speaker 1: and crept to his cabin, keeping it always between himself
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  Speaker 1: and the ship. Slipping in at the door, he found
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  Speaker 1: that everything had been ransacked. His books and pencils strewed
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  Speaker 1: the floor, his weapons and shields, and other little store
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  Speaker 1: of treasures were littered about. As he saw what had
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  Speaker 1: been done, a great wave of anger surged through him,
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  Speaker 1: and the new made scar upon his forehead stood suddenly
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  Speaker 1: out a bar of inflamed crimson against his tawny hide. Quickly,
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  Speaker 1: he ran to the cupboard and searched in the far
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  Speaker 1: recess of the lower shelf. Ha He breathed a sigh
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  Speaker 1: of relief as he drew out the little tin box,
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  Speaker 1: and opening it, found his greatest treasures undisturbed. The photograph
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  Speaker 1: of the smiling, strong faced young man and the little
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  Speaker 1: black puzzle book were safe. What was that His quick
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  Speaker 1: ear had caught a faint but unfamiliar sound. Running to
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  Speaker 1: the window, Tarzan looked toward the harbor and there he
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  Speaker 1: saw that a boat was being lowered from the great
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  Speaker 1: ship beside the one already in the water. Soon he
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  Speaker 1: saw many people clambering over the sides of the larger
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  Speaker 1: vessel and dropping into the boats. They were coming back
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  Speaker 1: in full force. For a moment longer, Tarzan watched while
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  Speaker 1: a number of boxes and bundles were lowered into the
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  Speaker 1: waiting boats. Then, as they shoved off from the ship's side,
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  Speaker 1: the ape man snatched up a piece of paper, and
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  Speaker 1: with a pencil printed on it for a few moments
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  Speaker 1: until it bore several lines of strong, well made almost
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  Speaker 1: led her perfect characters. This notice, he stuck upon the
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  Speaker 1: door with a small sharp splinter of wood. Then, gathering
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  Speaker 1: up his precious tin box, his arrows, and as many
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  Speaker 1: bows and spears as he could carry, he hastened through
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  Speaker 1: the door and disappeared into the forest. When the two
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  Speaker 1: boats were beached upon the silvery sand, it was a
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  Speaker 1: strange assortment of humanity that clambered ashore, some twenty souls
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  Speaker 1: in all. There were fifteen of them, rough and villainous
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  Speaker 1: appearing seamen. The others of the party were of a
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  Speaker 1: different stamp. One was an elderly man with white hair
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  Speaker 1: and large rimmed spectacles. His slightly stooped shoulders were draped
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  Speaker 1: in an ill fitting, though immaculate, frock coat, and a
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  Speaker 1: shiny silk hat added to the incongruity of his garb
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  Speaker 1: in an African jungle. The second member of the party
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  Speaker 1: to land was a tall young man in white ducks,
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  Speaker 1: while directly behind came another elderly man with a very
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  Speaker 1: high forehead and a fussy, excitable manner. After these came
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  Speaker 1: a huge negress clothed like Solomon as to colors. Her
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  Speaker 1: great eyes rolled in evident terror, first toward the jungle
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  Speaker 1: and then toward the cursing band of sailors who were
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  Speaker 1: removing the bales and boxes from the boat boats. The
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  Speaker 1: last member of the party to disembark was a girl
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  Speaker 1: of about nineteen, and it was the young man who
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  Speaker 1: stood at the boat's prow to lift her high and
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  Speaker 1: dry upon land. She gave him a brave and pretty
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  Speaker 1: smile of thanks, but no words passed between them. In silence,
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  Speaker 1: the party advanced toward the cabin. It was evident that
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  Speaker 1: whatever their intentions, all had been decided upon before they
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  Speaker 1: left the ship, and so they came to the door
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  Speaker 1: the sailors carrying the boxes and bales, followed by the
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  Speaker 1: five who were of so different a class. The men
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  Speaker 1: put down their burdens, and then one caught sight of
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  Speaker 1: the notice which Tarzan had posted. Ho mates, he cried,
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  Speaker 1: what's there? This sawn was not posted an hour ago?
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  Speaker 1: Or I'll eat the cook. The others gathered about, craning
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  Speaker 1: their necks over the shoulders of those before them, but
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  Speaker 1: as few of them could read it all, and then
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  Speaker 1: only after the most laborious fashion, one finally turned to
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  Speaker 1: the little old man of the top hat and frock coat,
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  Speaker 1: Hi professor, He called, step forward and read the bloomin notice.
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  Speaker 1: Thus addressed, the old man came slowly to where the
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  Speaker 1: sailors stood, followed by the other members of his party.
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  Speaker 1: Adjusting his spectacles, he looked for a moment at the placard,
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  Speaker 1: and then, turning away, strolled off, muttering to himself, the
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  Speaker 1: most remarkable, most remarkable, high old fossil, cried the man
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  Speaker 1: who had first called on him for assistance. Did you
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  Speaker 1: think we wanted of you to read the bloomin notice
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  Speaker 1: to yourself? Come back here and read it out loud,
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  Speaker 1: your old barnacle. The old man stopped, and, turning back, said, oh, yes,
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  Speaker 1: my dear sir, thousand pardons, it was quite thoughtless of me. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: very thoughtless, most remarkable, most remarkable. Again, he faced the
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  Speaker 1: notice and read it through, and doubtless would have turned
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  Speaker 1: off again to ruminate upon it. Had not, the sailor
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  Speaker 1: grasped him roughly by the collar and howled into his
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  Speaker 1: ear read it out loud, you blytherin, old idiot. Ah. Yes, indeed, yes, indeed,
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  Speaker 1: replied the professor softly, and adjusting his spectacles once more,
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  Speaker 1: he read aloud, this is the house of Tarzan, the
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  Speaker 1: killer of beasts, and many black men do not harm
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  Speaker 1: the things which are Tarzan's. Tarzan watches Tarzan of the Apes.
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  Speaker 1: Who the devil is Tarzan? Cried the sailor, who had
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  Speaker 1: before spoken. He evidently speaks English, said the young man.
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  Speaker 1: But what does Tarzan of the Apes mean? Cried the girl.
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  Speaker 1: I do not know, miss Porter, replied the young man,
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  Speaker 1: unless we have discovered a runaway Simon from the London
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  Speaker 1: zoo who has brought back an European education to his
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  Speaker 1: jungle home. What do you make of it, Professor Porter,
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  Speaker 1: he added, turning to the old man. Professor Archimedes q.
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  Speaker 1: Porter adjusted his spectacles. Ah, yes, indeed, yes, indeed, most remarkable,
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  Speaker 1: most remarkable, said the Professor. But I can add nothing
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  Speaker 1: further to what I have already remarked in elucidation of
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  Speaker 1: this truly momentous occurrence. And the Professor turned slowly in
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  Speaker 1: the direction of the jungle. But Papa cried the girl.
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  Speaker 1: You haven't said anything about it yet. Tut tut, child,
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  Speaker 1: Tut tut, responded Professor Porter in a kindly and indulgent tone.
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  Speaker 1: Do not trouble your pretty head with such weighty and
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  Speaker 1: abstruse problems. And again he wandered slowly off in still
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  Speaker 1: another direction, his eyes bent upon the ground at his feet,
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  Speaker 1: his hands clasped behind him beneath the flowing tails of
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  Speaker 1: his coat. I reckon the daffy old bounder. Don't know
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  Speaker 1: no more than we'd do about it, growled the rat
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  Speaker 1: faced sailor. Keep a civil tongue in your head, cried
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  Speaker 1: the young man, his face paling in anger at the
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  Speaker 1: insulting tone of the sailor. You've murdered our officers and
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  Speaker 1: robbed us. We are absolutely in your power. But you'll
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  Speaker 1: treat Professor Porter and miss Porter with respect, or I'll
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  Speaker 1: break that viol neck of yours with my bare hands.
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  Speaker 1: Guns or no guns. And the young fellow stepped so
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  Speaker 1: close to the rat faced sailor that the latter, though
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  Speaker 1: he bore two revolvers and a villainous looking knife in
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  Speaker 1: his belt, slunk back abashed. Your damned coward, cried the
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  Speaker 1: young man. You'd never dare shoot a man until his
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  Speaker 1: back was turned. You don't dare shoot me even then.
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  Speaker 1: And he deliberately turned his back full upon the sailor
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  Speaker 1: and walked nonchalantly away, as if to put him to
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  Speaker 1: the test. The sailor's hand crept slyly to the butt
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  Speaker 1: of one of his revolvers. His wicked eyes glared vengefully
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  Speaker 1: at the retreating form of the young Englishman. The gaze
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  Speaker 1: of his fellows was upon him, but still he hesitated
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  Speaker 1: at heart. He was even a greater coward than mister
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: William cecil Clayton had imagined. Two keen eyes had watched
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  Speaker 1: every move of the party from the foliage of a
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  Speaker 1: nearby tree. Tarzan had seen the surprise caused by his notice.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: And while he could understand nothing of the spoken language
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  Speaker 1: of these strange people, their gestures and facial expressions told
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  Speaker 1: him much. The act of the little rat faced sailor
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  Speaker 1: in killing one of his comrades, had aroused a strong
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: dislike in Tarzan, and now that he saw him quarreling
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  Speaker 1: with a fine looking young man, his animosity was still
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: further stirred. Tarzan had never seen the effects of a
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: firearm before, though his books had taught him something of them.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: But when he saw the rat faced one fingering the
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: butt of his revolver, he thought of the scene he
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: had witnessed so short a time before, and naturally expected
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  Speaker 1: to see the young man murdered, as had been the
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: huge sailor earlier in the day. So Tarzan fitted a
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: poisoned arrow to his bow and drew a bead upon
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: the rat faced sailor. But the foliage was so thick
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  Speaker 1: that he soon saw the arrow would be deflected by
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: the leaves or some small branch, and instead he launched
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  Speaker 1: a heavy spear from his lofty perch. Clayton had taken
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  Speaker 1: but a dozen steps the rat faced sailor had half
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  Speaker 1: drawn his revolver. The other sailors stood watching the scene intently.
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  Speaker 1: Professor Porter had already disappeared into the jungle, whither. He
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: was being followed by the fussy Samuel T. Falander, his
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: secretary and assistant as Merelda. The negress was busy sorting
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: her mistress's baggage from the pile of bales and boxes
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  Speaker 1: beside the cabin, and Miss Porter had turned away to
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: follow Clayton when something caused her to turn again toward
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: the sailor. And then three things happened almost simultaneously. The
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: sailor jerked out his weapon and leveled it at Clayton's back.
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  Speaker 1: Miss Porter screamed a warning, and a long metal shod
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  Speaker 1: spear shot like a bolt from above and asked entirely
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  Speaker 1: through the right shoulder of the rat faced man. The
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: revolver exploded harmlessly in the air, and the seaman crumpled
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  Speaker 1: up with a scream of pain and terror. Clayton turned
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: and rushed back toward the scene. The sailor stood in
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: a frightened group with drawn weapons, peering into the jungle.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: The wounded man writhed and shrieked upon the ground. Clayton,
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: unseen by any picked up the fallen revolver and slipped
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: it inside his shirt. Then he joined the sailors and,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: gazing mystified into the jungle. Who could it have been?
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: Whispered Jane Porter, and the young man turned to see
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  Speaker 1: her standing wide eyed and wandering close beside him. I
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: dare say Tarzan of the apes is watching us, all right,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: he answered, in a dubious tone. I wonder now who
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: that spear was intended for. If for snipes, then our
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: ape friend is a friend. Indeed, by jove, there are
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: your father and mister Falander. There's someone or something in
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: that jungle, and it's armed, whatever it is, Oh, professor
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: mister Falander, young Clayton shouted. There was no response. What's
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: to be done, Miss Porter, continued the young man, his
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: face clouded by a frown of worry and indecision. I
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: can't leave you here alone with these cutthroats, and you
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: certainly can't venture into the jungle with me. Yet someone
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: must go in search of your father. He is more
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: than apt to wandering off aimlessly, regardless of danger or direction,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: and mister Falander is only a trifle less impractical than he.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: You will pardon my bluntness, but our lives are all
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: in jeopardy here, and when we get your father back,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: something must be done to impress upon him the dangers
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: to which he exposes you as well as himself by
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: his absent mindedness. I quite agree with you, replied the girl,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: and I am not offended at all. Dear old Papa
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: will sacrifice his life for me without an instant's hesitation,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: provided one could keep his mind on so frivolous a
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: matter for an entire instant. There is only one way
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: to keep him in safety, and that is to chain
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: him to a tree. The poor dear is so impractical.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: I have it, suddenly, exclaimed Clayton. You can use a revolver,
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: can't you? Yes, why I have one with it. You
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: and Esmerelda will be comparatively safe in this cabin while
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: I am searching for your father and mister Falander. Come
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: call the woman and I will hurry on. They can't
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: have gone far. Jane did as he suggested, and when
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: he saw the door close safely behind them, Clayton turned
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: toward the jungle. Some of the sailors were drawing the
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: spear from their wounded comrade, and as Clayton approached, he
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: asked if he could borrow a revolver from one of
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: them while he searched the jungle for the professor. The
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: rat faced one, finding he was not dead, had regained
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: his composure, and with a volley of oaths directed to Clayton, refused,
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: in the name of his fellows to allow the young
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: man any firearms. This man, Snipes, had assumed the role
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: of chiefs since he had killed their former leader, and
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: so little time had elapsed that none of his companions
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: had as yet questioned his authority. Clayton's only response was
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: a shrug of the shoulders, but as he left them,
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: he picked up the spear which had transfixed Snipes, and
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: thus primitively armed. The son of the then Lord Greystoke.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: Strode into the dense jungle. Every few moments he called
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: aloud the names of the wanderers. The watchers in the
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: cabin by the beach heard the sound of his voice
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: growing ever fainter and fainter, until at last it was
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: swallowed up by the myriad noises of the primeval wood.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: While Professor Archimedes que Porter and his assistant Samuel T. Falander,
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: after much insistence on the part of the latter, had
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: finally turned their steps toward camp, they were as completely
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: lost in the wild, entangled labyrinth of the matted jungle
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: as two human beings well could be, though they did
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: not know it. It was by the merest caprice of
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: fortune that they headed towards the west coast of Africa
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: instead of towards Zenzibar, on the opposite side of the
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: dark continent. When in a short time they reached the
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: beach only to find no camp in sight, Falander was
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: positive that they were north of their proper destination, while
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: as a matter of fact, they were about two hundred
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: yards south of it. It never occurred to either of
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: these impractical theorists to call aloud on the chance of
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: attracting their friend's attention. Instead, with all the assurance that
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: deductive reasoning from a wrong premise induces in one, mister
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: Samuel T. Falander grasped Professor Archimedes que Porter firmly by
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: the arm and hurried the weekly protesting old gentleman off
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: in the direction of Cape Town, fifteen hundred miles to
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: the south. When Jane and Esmarelda found themselves safely behind
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: the cabin door, the negress's first thought was to barricade
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: the portal from the inside. With this idea in mind,
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: she turned to search for some means of putting it
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: into execution. But her first view of the interior of
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: the cabin brought a shriek of terror to her lips,
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: and like a frightened child, the huge woman ran to
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: bury her face on her mistress's shoulder. Jane, turning at
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: the cry, saw the cause of it, lying prone upon
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: the floor before them, the white and skeleton of a man.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: A further glance revealed a second skeleton upon the bed.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: What horrible place are we in, murmured the awe struck girl,
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: But there was no panic in her fright. At last,
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: disengaging herself from the frantic clutch of the still shrieking Esmeralda,
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Jane crossed the room to look into the little cradle,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: knowing what she should see there, even before the tiny
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: skeleton disclosed itself in all its pitiful and pathetic frailty.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: What an awful tragedy these poor mute bones, proclaimed the
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: girl shuddered at thought of the eventualities which might lie
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: before herself and her friends in this ill fated cabin,
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: the haunt of mysterious, perhaps hostile beings. Quickly, with an
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: impatient stamp of her little foot, she endeavored to shake
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: off the gloomy forebodings, and turning to Esmerelda bade her
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: cease her wailing. Stop es Morella, stop it this minute,
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: she cried, you are only making it worse. She ended lamely,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: a little quiver in her own voice, as she thought
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: of the three men upon whom she depended for protection.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: Wandering in the depth of that awful forest. Soon the
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: girl found that the door was equipped with a heavy
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: wooden bar upon the inside, and after several efforts, the
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: combined strength of the two enabled them to slip it
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: into place the first time in twenty years. Then they
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: sat down upon a bench, where their arms about one another,
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: and waited. End of chapter