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19 - Call of the Primitive · Tarzan of the Apes

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  Speaker 1: Chapter nineteen, The Call of the Primitive. From the time
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  Speaker 1: Tarzan left the tribe of great anthropoids in which he
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  Speaker 1: had been raised, it was torn by continual strife and discord.
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  Speaker 1: Turcos proved a cruel and capricious king, so that one
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  Speaker 1: by one many the older and weaker apes, upon whom
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  Speaker 1: he was particularly prone to vent his brutish nature, took
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  Speaker 1: their families and sought the quiet and safety of the
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  Speaker 1: far interior. But at last those who remained were driven
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  Speaker 1: to desperation by the continued truculence of Turcose, And it
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  Speaker 1: so happened that one of them recalled the parting admonition
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  Speaker 1: of Tarzan. If you have a chief who is cruel,
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  Speaker 1: do not do as the other apes do and attempt
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  Speaker 1: any one of you to pit yourself against him alone,
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  Speaker 1: but instead let two or three or four of you
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  Speaker 1: attack him together. Then if you will do this, no
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  Speaker 1: chief will dare to be other than he should be,
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  Speaker 1: for four of you can kill any chief who may
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  Speaker 1: ever be over you. And the ape who recalled this
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  Speaker 1: widest Council, repeated it to several of his fellows, so
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  Speaker 1: that when Turkoz returned to the tribe that day, he
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  Speaker 1: found a warm reception awaiting him. There were no formalities.
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  Speaker 1: As t Cooz reached the group, five huge hairy beasts
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  Speaker 1: sprang upon him. At heart, he was an errant coward,
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  Speaker 1: which is the way with bullies among apes as well
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  Speaker 1: as among men. So he did not remain to fight
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  Speaker 1: and die, but tore himself away from them as quickly
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  Speaker 1: as he could and fled into the sheltering boughs of
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  Speaker 1: the forest. Two more attempts he made to rejoin the tribe,
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  Speaker 1: but on each occasion he was set upon and driven away.
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  Speaker 1: At last he gave it up and turned, foaming with
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  Speaker 1: rage and hatred, into the jungle. For several days he
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  Speaker 1: wandered aimlessly, nursing his spite and looking for some weak
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  Speaker 1: thing on which to vent his pent anger. It was
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  Speaker 1: in this state of mind that the horrible man like beasts,
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  Speaker 1: swinging from tree to tree, came suddenly upon two women
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  Speaker 1: in the jungle. He was right above them when he
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  Speaker 1: discovered them. The first intimation Jane Porter had of his
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  Speaker 1: presence was when the great hairy body dropped to the
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  Speaker 1: earth beside her, and she saw the awful face and
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  Speaker 1: the snarling, hideous mouth thrust within a foot of her
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  Speaker 1: one piercing scream escaped her lips as the brute hand
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  Speaker 1: clutched her arm. Then she was dragged toward those awful fangs,
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  Speaker 1: which yawned at her throat. But ere they touched that
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  Speaker 1: fair skin. Another mood, claimed the anthropoid. The tribe had
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  Speaker 1: kept his women. He must find others to replace them.
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  Speaker 1: This hairless, white ape would be the first of his
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  Speaker 1: new household, and so he threw her roughly across his broad,
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  Speaker 1: hairy shoulders and leaped back into the trees, bearing Jane away.
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  Speaker 1: As Maralda's scream of terror had mingled once with that
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  Speaker 1: of Jane, and then, as was Esmerelda's manner under stress
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  Speaker 1: of emergency, which acquired presence of mind, she swooned. But
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  Speaker 1: Jane did not once lose consciousness. It is true that
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  Speaker 1: that awful face pressing close to hers, and the stench
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  Speaker 1: of the foul breath beating upon her nostrils paralyzed her
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  Speaker 1: with terror, But her brain was clear, and she comprehended
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  Speaker 1: all that transpired with what seemed to her marvelous rapidity.
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  Speaker 1: The brute bore her through the forest, but still she
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  Speaker 1: did not cry out or struggle. The sudden advent of
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  Speaker 1: the Ape had confused her to such an extent that
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  Speaker 1: she thought now that he was bearing her toward the beach.
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  Speaker 1: For this reason, she conserved her energies and her voice
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  Speaker 1: until she could see that they had approached near enough
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  Speaker 1: to the camp to attract the sucker she craved. She
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  Speaker 1: could not have known it, but she was being borne
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  Speaker 1: farther and farther into the impenetrable jungle. The scream that
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  Speaker 1: had brought Clayton and the two older men stumbling through
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  Speaker 1: the undergrowth had led Tarzan of the Apes straight to
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  Speaker 1: where as Moralda lay. But it was not as Maralda,
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  Speaker 1: in whom his interests centered. Though pausing over her, he
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  Speaker 1: saw that she was unhurt. For a moment, he scrutinized
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  Speaker 1: the ground below and the trees above, until the ape
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  Speaker 1: that was in him by virtue of training and environment,
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  Speaker 1: combined with the intelligence that was his by right of birth,
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  Speaker 1: told his wondrous Woodcraft the whole story as plainly as
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  Speaker 1: though he had seen the thing happen with his own eyes.
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  Speaker 1: And then he was gone again into the swaying trees,
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  Speaker 1: following the high flung spore which no other human eye
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  Speaker 1: could have detected. Much less translated. At bow's ends, were
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  Speaker 1: the anthropoid swings from one tree to another, there is
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  Speaker 1: most to mark the trail, but least to point the
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  Speaker 1: direction of the quarry, for there the pressure is downward,
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  Speaker 1: always toward the small inn the branch. Whether the ape
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  Speaker 1: be leaving or entering a tree nearer the center of
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  Speaker 1: the tree, where the signs of passage are fainter, the
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  Speaker 1: direction is plainly marked. Here on this branch, a caterpillar
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  Speaker 1: has been crushed by the fugitive's great foot, and Tarzan
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  Speaker 1: knows instinctively where that same foot would touch in the
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  Speaker 1: next stride. Here he looks to find a tiny particle
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  Speaker 1: of the demolished larvae, oftentimes not more than a speck
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  Speaker 1: of moisture. Again, a minute bit of bark has been
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  Speaker 1: upturned by the scraping hand, and the direction of the
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  Speaker 1: brick indicates the direction of the passage. Or some great limb,
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  Speaker 1: or the stem of the tree itself has been brushed
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  Speaker 1: by the hairy body, and a tiny shred of hair
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  Speaker 1: tells him, by the direction from which it is wedged
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  Speaker 1: beneath the bark, that he is on the right trail.
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  Speaker 1: Nor does he need to check his speed to catch
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  Speaker 1: these seemingly faint records of the fleeing beast to Tarzan.
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  Speaker 1: They stand out boldly against all the myriad other scars
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  Speaker 1: and bruises and signs upon the leafy way. But strongest
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  Speaker 1: of all is the scent, for Tarzan is pursuing up
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  Speaker 1: the wind, and his trained nostrils are as sensitive as
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  Speaker 1: a hound's. There are those who believe that the lower
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  Speaker 1: orders are specially endowed by nature with better old factory
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  Speaker 1: nerves than man, But it is merely a matter of development.
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  Speaker 1: Man's survival does not hinge so greatly upon the perfection
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  Speaker 1: of his senses. His power to reason has relieved them
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  Speaker 1: of many of their duties, and so they have to
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  Speaker 1: some extent atrophied, as have the muscles which move the
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  Speaker 1: ears and scalp, merely from disuse. The muscles are there
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  Speaker 1: about the ears and beneath the scalp, and so are
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  Speaker 1: the nerves which transmit sensations to the brain, but they
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  Speaker 1: are under developed because they are not needed. Not so
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  Speaker 1: with Tarzan of the apes. From early infancy, his survival
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  Speaker 1: had depended upon acuteness of eyesight, hearing, smell, touch and taste,
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  Speaker 1: far more than upon the more slowly developed organ of reason.
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  Speaker 1: The least developed of all in Tarzan was the sense
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  Speaker 1: of taste, for he could eat luscious fruits or raw
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  Speaker 1: flesh long buried with almost equal appreciation. But in that
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  Speaker 1: he differed but slightly from more civilized Epicurus. Almost silently,
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  Speaker 1: the ape man sped on in the track of Turcaus
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  Speaker 1: and his prey, but the sound of his approach reached
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  Speaker 1: the ears of the fleeing beast and spurred it on
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  Speaker 1: to greater speed. Three miles were covered before Tarzan overtook them,
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  Speaker 1: and then Turkauz, seeing that further flight was futile, dropped
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  Speaker 1: to the ground in a small open glade, that he
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  Speaker 1: might turn and fight for his prize, or be free
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  Speaker 1: to escape unhampered if he saw that the pursuer was
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  Speaker 1: more than a match for him. He still grasped Jane
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  Speaker 1: in one great arm as Tarzan bounded like a leopard
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  Speaker 1: into the arena which nature had provided for this primeval
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  Speaker 1: like battle. When Turkhoz saw that it was Tarzan who
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  Speaker 1: pursued him, he jumped to the conclusion that this was
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  Speaker 1: Tarzan's woman, since they were of the same kind, white
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  Speaker 1: and hairless, and so he rejoiced at this opportunity for
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  Speaker 1: double revenge upon his hated enemy. To Jane, the strange
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  Speaker 1: apparition of this godlike man was his swine to sick nerves.
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  Speaker 1: From the description which Clayton and her father and mister
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  Speaker 1: Falander had given her, she knew that it must be
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  Speaker 1: the same wonderful creature who had saved them, and she
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  Speaker 1: saw in him only a protector and a friend. But
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  Speaker 1: as to cause, pushed her roughly aside to meet Tarzan's charge.
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  Speaker 1: And she saw the great proportions of the ape, and
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  Speaker 1: the mighty muscles and the fierce fangs. Her heart quailed,
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  Speaker 1: How could any vanquish such a mighty antangotist. Like two
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  Speaker 1: charging bulls, they came together, and, like two wolves, sought
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  Speaker 1: each other's throat. Against the long canines of the ape,
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  Speaker 1: was pitted the thin blade of the man's knife. Jane,
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  Speaker 1: her lithe young form flattened against the trunk of a
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  Speaker 1: great tree, her hands tightly pressed against her rising and
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  Speaker 1: falling bosom, and her eyes wide with mingled horror, fascination, fear,
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  Speaker 1: and admiration, watched the primordial ape battle with the primeval
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  Speaker 1: man for possession of a woman, For her, as the
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  Speaker 1: great muscles of the man's back and shoulders knotted beneath
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  Speaker 1: the tension of his efforts, and the huge biceps and
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  Speaker 1: forearm held at bay those mighty tusks. The veil of
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  Speaker 1: sentries of civilization and culture were swept from the blurred
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  Speaker 1: vision of the Baltimore girl. When the long knife drank
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  Speaker 1: deep a dozen times of Tocoza's heart's blood, and the
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  Speaker 1: great carcass rolled lifeless upon the ground. It was a
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  Speaker 1: prime evil woman who sprang forward, with outstretched arms toward
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  Speaker 1: the prime evil man who had fought for her and
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  Speaker 1: won her and Tarzan he did what no red blooded
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  Speaker 1: man needs lessons in doing. He took his woman in
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  Speaker 1: his arms and smothered her upturned, panting lips with kisses
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  Speaker 1: for a moment. Jane lay there with half closed eyes,
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  Speaker 1: for a moment, the first in her young life she
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  Speaker 1: knew the meaning of love. But as suddenly as the
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  Speaker 1: veil had been withdrawn, it dropped again, and an outraged
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  Speaker 1: conscience suffused her face with its scarlet mantle, and a
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  Speaker 1: mortified woman thrust Tarzan and the apes from her and
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  Speaker 1: buried her face in her hands. Tarzan had been surprised
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  Speaker 1: when he had found the girl he had learned to
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  Speaker 1: love after a vague and abstract manner, a willing prisoner
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  Speaker 1: in his arms. Now he was surprised that she repulsed him.
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  Speaker 1: He came close to her once more and took hold
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  Speaker 1: of her arm. She turned upon him like a tigress,
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  Speaker 1: striking his great breast with her tiny hands. Tarzan could
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  Speaker 1: not understand it. A moment ago, and it had been
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  Speaker 1: his intention to hasten Jane back to her people. But
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  Speaker 1: that little moment was lost now in the dim and
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  Speaker 1: distant past of things which were but can never be again,
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  Speaker 1: and with it the good intentions had gone to join
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  Speaker 1: the impossible. Since then, Tarzan and the Apes had felt
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  Speaker 1: a warm, lithe form close pressed to his. Hot, sweet
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  Speaker 1: breath against his cheek and mouth had fanned a new
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  Speaker 1: flame to life within his breast, and perfect lips had
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  Speaker 1: clung to his in burning kisses that had seared a
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  Speaker 1: deep brand into his soul, a brand which marked a
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  Speaker 1: new Tarzan. Again, he laid his hand upon her arm. Again,
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  Speaker 1: she repulsed him, and then Tarzan and the Apes did
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  Speaker 1: just what his first ancestor would have done. He took
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  Speaker 1: his woman in his arms and carried her into the jungle.
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  Speaker 1: Early the following morning, the four within the little cabin
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  Speaker 1: by the beach were awakened by the booming of a cannon.
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  Speaker 1: Clayton was the first to rush out, and there beyond
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  Speaker 1: the harbor's mouth he saw two vessels lying at anchor.
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  Speaker 1: One was the Arrow, and the other a small French cruiser.
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  Speaker 1: The sides of the latter were crowded with men gazing shoreward,
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  Speaker 1: and it was evident to Clayton as to the others
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  Speaker 1: who had now joined him, that the gun which they
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  Speaker 1: had heard had been fired to attract their attention if
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  Speaker 1: they still remained at the cabin. Both vessels lay at
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  Speaker 1: a considerable distance from shore, and it was doubtful if
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  Speaker 1: their glasses would locate the waving hats of the little
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  Speaker 1: party far in between the harbor's points, as Marelda had
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  Speaker 1: removed her red apron and was waving it frantically above
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  Speaker 1: her head. But Clayton, still fearing that even this might
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  Speaker 1: not be seen, hurried off toward the northern point, where
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  Speaker 1: lay his signal Pire, ready for the match. It seemed
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  Speaker 1: an age to him as to those who waited breathlessly
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  Speaker 1: behind ere. He reached the great pile of dry branches
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  Speaker 1: and underbrush. As he broke from the dense wood and
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  Speaker 1: came inside of the vessels again, he was filled with
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  Speaker 1: consternation to see that the arrow was making sail and
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  Speaker 1: that the cruiser was already under way. Quickly lighting the
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  Speaker 1: pyre in a dozen places, he hurried to the extreme
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  Speaker 1: point of the promontory, where he stripped off his shirt, and,
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  Speaker 1: tying it to a fallen branch, stood waving it back
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  Speaker 1: and forth above him. But still the vessels continued to
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  Speaker 1: stand out, and he had given up all hope when
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  Speaker 1: the great column of smoke rising above the forest in
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  Speaker 1: one dense vertical shaft, attracted the attention of a lookout
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  Speaker 1: aboard the cruiser, and instantly a dozen glasses were leveled
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  Speaker 1: on the beach. Clayton saw the two ships come about again,
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  Speaker 1: and while the arrow lay drifting quietly on the ocean,
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  Speaker 1: the cruiser steamed slowly back toward shore. At some distance away,
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  Speaker 1: she stopped, and a boat was lowered and despatched toward
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  Speaker 1: the beach. As it was drawn up, a young officer
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  Speaker 1: stepped out. Monsieur Clayton, I presume, he asked, thank God,
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  Speaker 1: you have come. Was Clayton's reply, and it may be
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  Speaker 1: that it is not too late even now. What do
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  Speaker 1: you mean, monsieur, asked the officer. Clayton told of the
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  Speaker 1: abduction of Jane Porter and the need of armed men
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  Speaker 1: to aid in the search for her. Mon Dieu, exclaimed
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  Speaker 1: the officer, sadly yesterday, and it would not have been
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  Speaker 1: too late today, and it may be better that the
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  Speaker 1: poor lady will never found. It is horrible, monsieur, it
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  Speaker 1: is too horrible. Other boats had now put off from
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  Speaker 1: the cruiser, and Clayton, having pointed out the harbor's entrance
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  Speaker 1: to the officer, entered the boat with him, and its
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  Speaker 1: nose was turned toward the little landlocked bay, into which
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  Speaker 1: the other craft followed. Soon the entire party had landed,
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  Speaker 1: where stood Professor Porter, mister Falander, and the weeping as Moralda.
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  Speaker 1: Among the officers and the last boats to put off
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  Speaker 1: from the cruiser was the commander of the vessel, and
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  Speaker 1: when he had heard the story of Jane's abduction, he
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  Speaker 1: generously called for volunteers to accompany Professor Porter and Clayton
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  Speaker 1: in their search. Not an officer or a man was
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  Speaker 1: there of those brave and sympathetic Frenchmen who did not
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  Speaker 1: quickly beg leave to be one of the expedition. The
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  Speaker 1: commanders selected twenty men and two officers, Lieutenant d'arnault and
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  Speaker 1: Lieutenant Charpentier. A boat was dispatched to the cruiser for provisions,
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  Speaker 1: ammunition and carbines. The men were already armed with revolvers.
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  Speaker 1: Then to Clayton's inquiries as to how they had happened
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  Speaker 1: to anchor off off shore and fire a signal gun,
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  Speaker 1: the commander, Captain du Fran, explained that a month before
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  Speaker 1: they had sighted the arrow bearing southwest under considerable canvas,
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  Speaker 1: and that when they had signaled her to come about,
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  Speaker 1: she had but crowded on more sail. They had kept
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  Speaker 1: her hull up until sunset, firing several shots after her,
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  Speaker 1: but the next morning she was nowhere to be seen.
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  Speaker 1: They had then continued to cruise up and down the
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  Speaker 1: coast for several weeks and had about forgotten the incident
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  Speaker 1: of the recent chase, when early one morning a few
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  Speaker 1: days before, the lookout had described a vessel laboring in
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  Speaker 1: the trough of a heavy sea and evidently entirely out
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  Speaker 1: of control. As they steamed nearer to the derelict, they
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  Speaker 1: were surprised to note that it was the same vessel
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  Speaker 1: that had run from them a few weeks earlier. Her
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  Speaker 1: force Stacil and mizzen Spanker were set as though an
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  Speaker 1: effort had been made to hold her head up into
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  Speaker 1: the wind, but the sheets had parted and the sails
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  Speaker 1: were tearing to ribbons in the half gale of wind
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  Speaker 1: in the high sea that it was running. It was
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  Speaker 1: a difficult and dangerous task to attempt to put a
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  Speaker 1: prize crew aboard her, and as no signs of life
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  Speaker 1: had been seen above deck, it was decided to stand
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  Speaker 1: by until the wind and sea abated, But just then
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  Speaker 1: a figure was seen clinging to the rail and feebly
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  Speaker 1: waving a mute signal of despair toward them. Immediately, a
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  Speaker 1: boat's crew was ordered out and an attempt was successfully
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  Speaker 1: made to board the arrow. The sight that met the
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  Speaker 1: Frenchman's eyes as they clambered over the ship's side was appalling.
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  Speaker 1: A dozen dead and dying men rolled hither and thither
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  Speaker 1: upon the pitching deck, The living intermingled with the dead.
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  Speaker 1: Two of the corpses appeared to have been partially devoured as
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  Speaker 1: though by wolves. The prize crew soon had the vessel
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  Speaker 1: under proper sail once more, and the living members of
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  Speaker 1: the ill starred company carried below to their hammocks. The
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  Speaker 1: dead were wrapped in turpaulins and lashed on deck to
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  Speaker 1: be identified by their comrades, before being consigned to the deep.
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  Speaker 1: None of the living was conscious when the frenchmen reached
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  Speaker 1: the arrow's deck. Even the poor devil who had waived
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  Speaker 1: the single despairing signal of distress, had lapsed into unconsciousness
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  Speaker 1: before he had learned whether it had availed or not.
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  Speaker 1: It did not take the French officer long to learn
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  Speaker 1: what had caused the terrible condition aboard, for when water
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  Speaker 1: and brandy were sought to restore the men, it was
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  Speaker 1: found that there was none, nor even food of any description.
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  Speaker 1: He immediately signaled to the cruiser to send water, medicine
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  Speaker 1: and provisions, and another boat made the perilous trip to
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  Speaker 1: the arrow. When restoratives had been applied, several of the
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  Speaker 1: men regained consciousness, and then the whole story was told.
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  Speaker 1: That part of it we know, up to the sailing
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  Speaker 1: of the Arrow, after the murder of Snipes and the
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  Speaker 1: burial of his body above the treasure chest. It seems
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  Speaker 1: that The pursuit by the cruiser had so terrorized the
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  Speaker 1: mutineers that they had continued out across the Atlantic for
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  Speaker 1: several days after losing her, but on discovering the meager
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  Speaker 1: supply of water and provisions aboard, they had turned back
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  Speaker 1: toward the east. With no one on board who understood navigation.
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  Speaker 1: Discussions soon arose as to their whereabouts, and as three
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  Speaker 1: days sailing to the east did not raise land, they
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  Speaker 1: bore off to the north, fearing that the high north
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  Speaker 1: winds that it prevailed had driven them south of the
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  Speaker 1: southern extremity of Africa. They kept on a north northeasterly
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  Speaker 1: course for two days when they were overtaken by a
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  Speaker 1: calm which lasted for nearly a week. Their water was gone,
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  Speaker 1: and in another day they would be without food. Conditions
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  Speaker 1: changed rapidly from bad to worse. One man went mad
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  Speaker 1: and leaped overboard. Soon another opened his veins and drank
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  Speaker 1: his own blood. When he died, they threw him overboard also,
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  Speaker 1: though there were those among them who wanted to keep
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: the corpse on board. Hunger was changing them from human
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: beasts to wild beasts. Two days before they had been
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: picked up by the cruiser, they had become too weak
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: to handle the vessel, and that same day three men died.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: On the following morning, it was seen that one of
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: the corpses had been partially devoured. All that day the
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: men lay glaring at each other like beasts of prey,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: and the following morning two of the corpses lay almost
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: entirely stripped of flesh. The men were but little stronger
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: for their ghoulish repast, for the want of water was
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: by far the greatest agony with which they had to contend.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: And then the cruiser had come. When those who could
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: had recovered the entire story had been told to the
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: French commander, but the men were too ignorant to be
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: able to tell him at just what point on the
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: coast the Professor and his party had been marooned. So
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: the cruiser had steamed slowly along within sight of land,
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: firing occasional signal guns and scanning every inch of the
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: beach with glasses. They had anchored by night so as
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: not to neglect a particle of the shoreline, and it
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: had happened that the preceding night had brought them off
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: the very beach where lay the little camp they sought
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: the signal guns of the afternoon before had not been
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: heard by those on shore. It was presumed because they
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: had doubtless been in the thick of the jungle searching
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: for Jane Porter, for the noise of their own crashing
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: through the underbrush would have drowned the report of a
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: far distant gun. By the time the two parties had
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: narrated their several adventures, the cruiser's boat had returned with
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: supplies and arms for the expedition. Within a few minutes,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: the little body of sailors and the two French officers,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: together with Professor Porter and Clayton, set off upon their
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: hopeless and ill fated quest into the untracked jungle en