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09 - Man and Man · Tarzan of the Apes

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  Speaker 1: Chapter nine, Man and Man. Tarzan of the Apes lived
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  Speaker 1: on in his wild jungle existence with little change for
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  Speaker 1: several years, only that he grew stronger and wiser and
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  Speaker 1: learned from his books more and more of the strange
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  Speaker 1: worlds which lay somewhere outside his primeval forest. To him,
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  Speaker 1: life was never monotonous or stale. There was always Pisa,
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  Speaker 1: the fish to be caught in the many streams, and
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  Speaker 1: the little lakes, and Sabor, with their ferocious cousins, to
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  Speaker 1: keep one ever on the alert and give zest to
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  Speaker 1: every instant that one spent upon the ground. Often they
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  Speaker 1: hunted him, and more often he hunted them. But though
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  Speaker 1: they never quite reached him with those cruel, sharp claws
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  Speaker 1: of theirs, yet there were times when one could scarce
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  Speaker 1: have passed a thick leaf between their talons and his
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  Speaker 1: smooth hide. Quick was Sabor the lioness, and quick were
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  Speaker 1: Numa and Sitah. But Tarzan of the Apes was lightning
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  Speaker 1: with Tantor the elephant. He made friends, how ask not,
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  Speaker 1: but this is known to the detizens of the jungle
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  Speaker 1: that on many moonlight nights, Tarzan the Apes and Tantor
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  Speaker 1: the Elephant walked together, and where the way was clear
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  Speaker 1: Tarzan road perched high upon Tantor's mighty back. Many days
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  Speaker 1: during these years he spent in the cabin of his father,
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  Speaker 1: where lay still untouched the bones of his parents and
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  Speaker 1: the skeleton of Kayla's baby. At eighteen, he read fluently
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  Speaker 1: and understood nearly all he read in the many invaried
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  Speaker 1: volumes on the shelves. Also could he write with printed
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  Speaker 1: letters rapidly and plainly. But script he had not mastered.
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  Speaker 1: For though there were several copy books among his treasure,
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  Speaker 1: there was so little written English in the cabin that
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  Speaker 1: he saw no use for bothering with this other form
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  Speaker 1: of writing, though he could read it laboriously. Thus, at
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  Speaker 1: eighteen we find him an English lordling who could speak
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  Speaker 1: no English, and yet who could read and write his
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  Speaker 1: native language. Never had he seen a human being other
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  Speaker 1: than himself. For the little area traversed by his tribe
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  Speaker 1: was water by no greater river to bring down. The
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  Speaker 1: savage natives of the interior high hills shut it off
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  Speaker 1: on three sides the ocean. On the fourth. It was
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  Speaker 1: alive with lions and leopards and poisonous snakes. Its untouched
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  Speaker 1: mazes of matted jungle had as yet invited no hearty
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  Speaker 1: pioneer from the human beasts beyond its frontier. But as
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  Speaker 1: Tarzan of the Apes sat one day in the cabin
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  Speaker 1: of his father, delving into the mysteries of a new book,
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  Speaker 1: the ancient security of his jungle was broken forever. At
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  Speaker 1: the far eastern confine, a strange cavalcade strung in single
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  Speaker 1: file over the brow of a low hill. Advants were
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  Speaker 1: fifty black warriors, armed with slender wooden spears with ends
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  Speaker 1: hard baked over slow fires, and long bows and poisoned arrows.
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  Speaker 1: On their backs were oval shields, in their noses huge rings,
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  Speaker 1: while from the kinky wool of their heads protruded tufts
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  Speaker 1: of gay feathers. Across their foreheads were tattooed three parallel
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  Speaker 1: lines of color, and on each breast three concentric circles.
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  Speaker 1: Their yellow teeth were filed to sharp points, and their
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  Speaker 1: great protruding lips added still further to the low investial
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  Speaker 1: brutishness of their appearance. Following them were several hundred women
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  Speaker 1: and children, the former bearing upon their heads great burdens
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  Speaker 1: of cooking pots, household utensils, and ivory. In the rear
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  Speaker 1: were one hundred warriors similar in all respects to the
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  Speaker 1: advance guard. That they more greatly feared an attack from
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  Speaker 1: the rear than whatever unknown enemies lurked in their advance
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  Speaker 1: was evidenced by the formation of the column. And such
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  Speaker 1: was the fact, for they were fleeing from the white
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  Speaker 1: men's soldiers, who had so harassed them for rubber and
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  Speaker 1: ivory that they had turned upon their conquerors one day
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  Speaker 1: and massacred a white officer and a small detachment of
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  Speaker 1: his black troops. For many days they had gorged themselves
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  Speaker 1: on meat, but eventually a stronger body of troops had
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  Speaker 1: come and fallen upon their village by night to revenge
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  Speaker 1: the death of their comrades. That night, the black soldiers
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  Speaker 1: of the white men had had meat of plenty, and
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  Speaker 1: this little remnant of a once powerful tribe had slunk
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  Speaker 1: off into the gloomy jungle toward the unknown and freedom.
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  Speaker 1: But that which meant freedom and the pursuit of happiness
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  Speaker 1: to these savage blacks meant consternation and death to many
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  Speaker 1: of the wild denizens of their new home. For three days,
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  Speaker 1: the little cavalcave marched slowly through the heart of this
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  Speaker 1: unknown and untracked form until finally, early in the fourth day,
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  Speaker 1: they came upon a little spot near the banks of
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  Speaker 1: a small river, which seemed less thickly overgrown than any
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  Speaker 1: ground they had yet encountered. Here they set to work
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  Speaker 1: to build a new village, and in a month a
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  Speaker 1: great clearing had been made, huts and palisades erected, plantins, yams,
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  Speaker 1: and maize planted, and they had taken up their old
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  Speaker 1: life in their new home. Here there were no white men,
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  Speaker 1: no soldiers, nor any rubber or ivory to be gathered
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  Speaker 1: for cruel and thankless task masters. Several moons passed by
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  Speaker 1: ere the Blacks ventured far into the territory surrounding their
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  Speaker 1: new village. Several had already fallen prey to old Sabor,
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  Speaker 1: And because the jungle was so infested with these fierce
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  Speaker 1: and bloodthirsty cats, and with lions and leopards, the Epony
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  Speaker 1: warriors hesitated to trust themselves far from the safety of
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  Speaker 1: their palisades. But one day Koulonga, a son of the
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  Speaker 1: old king Mabonga, wandered far into the dense mazes to
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  Speaker 1: the west. Warily, he stepped his slender lance, ever ready,
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  Speaker 1: his long oval shield firmly grasped in his left hand
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  Speaker 1: close to his sleek, ebony body. At his back his bow,
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  Speaker 1: and in the quiver upon his shield many slim, straight arrows,
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  Speaker 1: wells smeared with a thick, dark, tarry substance that rendered
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  Speaker 1: deadly their tiniest needle. Prick Knight found Koulonga far from
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  Speaker 1: the palisades of his father's village, but still headed westward,
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  Speaker 1: and climbing into the fork of a great tree, he
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  Speaker 1: fashioned a rude platform and curled himself for sleep. Three
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  Speaker 1: miles to the west slept the tribe of Kurshak. Early
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  Speaker 1: the next morning, the apes were astir moving through the
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  Speaker 1: jungle in search of food. Tarzan, as was his custom,
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  Speaker 1: prosecuted his search in the direction of the cabin, so
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  Speaker 1: that by leisurely hunting on the way, his stomach was filled.
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  Speaker 1: By the time he reached the beach. The apes scattered
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  Speaker 1: by ones and twos and threes in all directions, but
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  Speaker 1: ever within sound of a signal of alarm. Kayla had
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  Speaker 1: moved slowly along an elephant track toward the east, and
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  Speaker 1: was busily engaged in turning over rotted limbs and logs
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  Speaker 1: in search of succulent bugs and fungy when the faintest
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  Speaker 1: shadow of a strange noise brought her to startled attention.
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  Speaker 1: For fifty yards before her the trail was straight, and
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  Speaker 1: down this leafy tunnel she saw the stealthy, advancing figure
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  Speaker 1: of a strange and fearful creature. It was Koulonga. Kayla
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  Speaker 1: did not wait to see more, but, turning, moved rapidly
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  Speaker 1: back along the trail. She did not run, but, after
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  Speaker 1: the manner of her kind, when not aroused, sought rather
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  Speaker 1: to avoid than to escape. Close after her came Koulonga.
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  Speaker 1: Here was meat. He could make a killing and feast
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  Speaker 1: well this day on. He hurried his spear poised for
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  Speaker 1: the throw. At a turning of the trail, he came
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  Speaker 1: in sight of her again. Upon another straight stretch, his
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  Speaker 1: spear hand went far back. The muscles rolled lightning like
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  Speaker 1: beneath the sleek hide. Out shot the arm, and the
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  Speaker 1: spear sped toward Kayla. A poor cast it but grazed
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  Speaker 1: her side. With a cry of rage and pain. The
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  Speaker 1: she ape turned upon her, torment her. In an instant.
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  Speaker 1: The trees were crashing beneath the weight of her hurrying
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  Speaker 1: fellows swinging rapidly toward the scene of trouble. In answer
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  Speaker 1: to Kyle's scream as she charged, Kulonga unslung his bow
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  Speaker 1: and fitted an arrow with an almost unthinkable quickness, Drawing
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  Speaker 1: the shaft far back, he drove the poisoned missile straight
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  Speaker 1: into the heart of the great anthropoid. With a hard scream,
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  Speaker 1: Caeleb plunged forward upon her face before the astonished members
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  Speaker 1: of her tribe, roaring and shrieking. The apes dashed toward Koolonga,
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  Speaker 1: but that weary savage was fleeing down the trail like
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  Speaker 1: a frightened antelope. He knew something of the ferocity of
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  Speaker 1: these wild hairy men, and his one desire was to
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  Speaker 1: put as many miles between himself of them as he
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  Speaker 1: possibly could. They followed him, racing through the trees for
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  Speaker 1: a long distance, but finally, one by one they abandoned
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  Speaker 1: the chase and returned to the scene of the tragedy.
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  Speaker 1: None of them had ever seen a man before other
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  Speaker 1: than Tarzan, and so they wondered vaguely what strange manner
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  Speaker 1: of creature it might be that had invaded their jungle
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  Speaker 1: on the far beach. By the little cabin, Tarzan heard
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  Speaker 1: the faint echoes of the conflict, and knowing that something
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  Speaker 1: was seriously amiss among the tribe, he hastened rapidly toward
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  Speaker 1: the direction of the sound. When he arrived, he found
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  Speaker 1: the entire tribe gathered jabbering about the dead body of
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  Speaker 1: his head slay mother. Tarzan's grief and anger were unbounded.
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  Speaker 1: He roared out his hideous challenge time and again. He
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  Speaker 1: beat upon his great chest with his clenched fists, And
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  Speaker 1: then he fell upon the body of Kylah and sobbed
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  Speaker 1: out the pitiful sorrowing of his lonely heart. To lose
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  Speaker 1: the only creature in all his world who had ever
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  Speaker 1: manifested love and affection for him was the greatest tragedy
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  Speaker 1: he had ever known. What. Though Kaylah was a fierce
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  Speaker 1: and hideous ape to Tarzan, she had been kind, she
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  Speaker 1: had been beautiful. Upon her, he had lavished, unknown to himself,
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  Speaker 1: all the reverence and respect and love that a normal
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  Speaker 1: English boy feels for his own mother. He had never
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  Speaker 1: known another, and so to Kayla was given, though mutely,
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  Speaker 1: all that would have belonged to the fair and lovely
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  Speaker 1: lady Alice had she lived. After the first outburst of grief,
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  Speaker 1: Tarzan controvey roll himself, and questioning the members of the
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  Speaker 1: tribe who had witnessed the killing of Kayla, he learned
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  Speaker 1: all that their meager vocabulary could convey. It was enough, however,
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  Speaker 1: for his needs. It told him of a strange, hairless
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  Speaker 1: black ape with feathers growing upon its head, who launched
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  Speaker 1: death from a slender branch, and then ran with the
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  Speaker 1: fleetness of Bara the deer, toward the rising sun. Tarzan
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  Speaker 1: waited no longer, but, leaping into the branches of the trees,
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  Speaker 1: sped rapidly through the forest. He knew the windings of
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  Speaker 1: the elephant trail along which Kayla's murderer had flown, and
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  Speaker 1: so he cut straight through the jungle to intercept the
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  Speaker 1: black wire, who was evidently following the tortuous detours of
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  Speaker 1: the trail. At his side was the hunting knife of
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  Speaker 1: his unknown sire, and across his shoulders the coils of
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  Speaker 1: his own long rope. In an hour, he struck the
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  Speaker 1: trail again, and, coming to earth, examined the soil minutely.
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  Speaker 1: In the soft mud on the bank of a tiny rivulet,
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  Speaker 1: he found footprints such as he alone in all the jungle,
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  Speaker 1: had ever made, but much larger than his His heart
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  Speaker 1: beat fast. Could it be that he was trailing a man,
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  Speaker 1: one of his own race? There were two sets of
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  Speaker 1: imprints pointing in opposite directions, so his quarry had already passed.
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  Speaker 1: On his return along the trail. As he examined the
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  Speaker 1: newer spoor up, tiny particle of earth toppled from the
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  Speaker 1: outer edge of one of the footprints to the bottom
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  Speaker 1: of its shallow depression. Ah, the trail was very fresh.
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  Speaker 1: His prey must have but scarcely passed. Tarzan swung himself
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  Speaker 1: to the trees once more, and with swift noiselessness, sped
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  Speaker 1: along high above the trail. He had covered barely a
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  Speaker 1: mile when he came upon the black warrior standing in
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  Speaker 1: a little open space. In his hand was his slender bow,
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  Speaker 1: to which he had fitted one of his death dealing arrows.
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  Speaker 1: Opposite him, across the little clearing stood Horta, the boar
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  Speaker 1: with lowered head and foam flecked tusks, ready to charge.
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  Speaker 1: Tarzan looked with wonder upon the strange creature beneath him,
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  Speaker 1: so like him in form, and yet so different in
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  Speaker 1: face and color. His books had portrayed the Negro, But
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  Speaker 1: how different had been the dull dead print to this
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  Speaker 1: sleek thing of ebony pulsing with life. As the man
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  Speaker 1: stood there with taut drawn bow, Tarzan recognized him not
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  Speaker 1: so much the Negro as the archer of his picture book,
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  Speaker 1: A stands for Archer. How wonderful, Tarzan almost betrayed his
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  Speaker 1: presence in the deep excitement of his discovery. But things
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  Speaker 1: were commencing to happen below him. The sinewy black arm
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  Speaker 1: had drawn the shaft far back Horta the boar was charging.
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  Speaker 1: And then the black released the little poisoned arrow, and
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  Speaker 1: Tarzan saw it fly with a quickness of thought and
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  Speaker 1: lodge in the bridge neck of the boar. Scarcely had
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  Speaker 1: the shaft left his bow ere Koulonga had fitted another
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  Speaker 1: to it, But Hortea the boar was upon him so
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  Speaker 1: quickly that he had no time to discharge it. With
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  Speaker 1: a bound. That black leaped entirely over the rushing beast, and,
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  Speaker 1: turning with incredible swiftness, planted a second arrow in Horta's back.
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  Speaker 1: Then Koulonga sprang into a nearby tree. Horta wheeled to
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  Speaker 1: charge his enemy once more. A dozen steps he took,
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  Speaker 1: then he staggered and fell upon his side for a moment,
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  Speaker 1: his muscles stiffened and relaxed convulsively. Then he lay still.
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  Speaker 1: Koulonga came down from the tree with a knife that
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  Speaker 1: hung at his side. He cut several large pieces from
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  Speaker 1: the boar's body, and in the center of the trail
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  Speaker 1: he built a fire, cooking and eating as much as
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  Speaker 1: he wanted. The rest he left where it had fallen.
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  Speaker 1: Tarzan was an interested spectator. His desire to kill burned
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  Speaker 1: feariercely in his wild breast, but his desire to learn
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  Speaker 1: was even greater. He would follow this savage creature for
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  Speaker 1: a while and know from whence he came. He could
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  Speaker 1: kill him at his leisure. Later, when the bow and
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  Speaker 1: deadly arrows were laid aside, When Koolonga had finished his
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  Speaker 1: repast and disappeared beyond a near turning of the path,
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  Speaker 1: Tarzan dropped quietly to the ground. With his knife. He
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  Speaker 1: severed many strips of meat from Horta's carcass, but he
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  Speaker 1: did not cook them. He had seen fire, but only
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  Speaker 1: when Arra the lightning had destroyed some great tree that
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  Speaker 1: any creature of the jungle could produce the white and
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  Speaker 1: yellow fangs which devoured wood and left nothing but fine dust.
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  Speaker 1: Surprised Tarzan greatly, and why the black warrior had ruined
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  Speaker 1: his delicious repast by plunging it into the blighting heat
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  Speaker 1: was quite beyond him. Possibly ar was a friend with
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  Speaker 1: whom the archer was sharing his food. But be that
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  Speaker 1: as it may, Tarzan would not ruin good meat in
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  Speaker 1: any such foolish manner. So he gobbled down a great
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  Speaker 1: quantity of the raw flesh, burying the balance of the
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  Speaker 1: carcass beside the trail where he could find it upon
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  Speaker 1: his return. And then Lord Greystoke wiped his greasy fingers
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  Speaker 1: upon his naked thighs and took up the trail of Koulonga,
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  Speaker 1: the son of Mubonga the King. While in far off London,
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  Speaker 1: another Lord Greystoke, the younger brother of the real Lord
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  Speaker 1: Greystoke's father, sent back his chops to the club's shaft
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  Speaker 1: because they were underdone. And when he had finished his repast,
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  Speaker 1: he tipped his finger ends into a silver bowl of
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  Speaker 1: scented water and dried them upon a piece of snowy damask.
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  Speaker 1: All day Tarzan followed Kulonga, hovering above him in the
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  Speaker 1: trees like some maligned spirit. Twice more he saw him
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  Speaker 1: hurl his arrows of destruction, once at Dango the hyena,
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  Speaker 1: and again at Manu the monkey. In each instance the
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  Speaker 1: animal died almost instantly, for Kulonga's poison was very fresh
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  Speaker 1: and very deadly. Tarzan thought much on this wondrous method
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  Speaker 1: of slaying as he swung slowly along at a safe
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  Speaker 1: distance behind his quarry. He knew that alone the tiny
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  Speaker 1: prick of the arrow could not so quickly dispatch these
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  Speaker 1: wild things of the jungle, who were often torn and
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  Speaker 1: scratched and goreed in a frightful manner as they fought
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  Speaker 1: with their jungle neighbors, yet as often recovered as not. No,
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  Speaker 1: there was something mysterious connected with these tiny slivers of
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  Speaker 1: wood which could bring death by a mere scratch. He
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  Speaker 1: must look into the matter. That night, Kulonga slept in
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  Speaker 1: a crotch of a mighty tree, and far above him
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  Speaker 1: crouched Tarzan of the Apes. When Koulongo awoke, he found
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  Speaker 1: that his bow and arrows had disappeared. The black warrior
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  Speaker 1: was furious and frightened, but more frightened than furious. He
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  Speaker 1: searched the ground below the tree, and he searched the
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  Speaker 1: tree above the ground, but there was no sign of
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  Speaker 1: either bow or arrows, or of the nocturnal marauder. Koulonga
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  Speaker 1: was panic stricken. His spear he had hurled at Kayla
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  Speaker 1: and had not recovered, and now his bow and arrows
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  Speaker 1: were gone. He was defenseless except for a single knife.
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  Speaker 1: His only hope lay in reaching the village of Mbonga
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  Speaker 1: as quickly as his legs would carry him. That he
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  Speaker 1: was not far from home, he was certain, so he
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  Speaker 1: took the trail at a rapid trot. From a great
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  Speaker 1: mass of impenetrable foliage. A few yards away emerged Tarzan
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  Speaker 1: of the Apes, to swing quietly in his wake. Koulonga's
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  Speaker 1: bow and arrows were securely tied high in the top
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  Speaker 1: of a giant tree from which a patch of bark
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  Speaker 1: had been removed by a sharp knife near to the ground,
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  Speaker 1: and a branch half cut through and left hanging about
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  Speaker 1: fifty feet higher up. Thus Tarzan blazed the forest trails
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  Speaker 1: and marked his caches. As Koulonga continued his journey, Tarzan
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  Speaker 1: closed on him until he traveled almost over the black's head.
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  Speaker 1: His rope he now held coiled in his right hand.
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  Speaker 1: He was almost ready for the kill. The moment was
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  Speaker 1: delayed only because Tarzan was anxious to ascertain the Black
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  Speaker 1: warrior's destination, and presently he was rewarded, for he came
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  Speaker 1: suddenly in view of a great clearing, at one end
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  Speaker 1: of which lay many strange lairs. Tarzan was directly over
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  Speaker 1: Kulonga as he made the discovery. The forest ended abruptly,
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  Speaker 1: and beyond lay two hundred yards of planted fields. Between
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  Speaker 1: the jungle and the village. Tarzan must act quickly or
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  Speaker 1: his prey would be gone. But Tarzan's life training left
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  Speaker 1: so little space between decision and action when an emergency
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  Speaker 1: confronted him that there was not even room for the
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  Speaker 1: shadow of a thought between. So it was that, as
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  Speaker 1: Kulonga emerged from the shadow of the jungle, a slender
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  Speaker 1: coil of rope sped sinuously above him from the lowest
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  Speaker 1: branch of a mighty tree, directly upon the edge of
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  Speaker 1: the fields of Mbonga and Ere. The king's son had
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  Speaker 1: taken a half dozen steps into the clearing, a quick
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  Speaker 1: noose tidened about his neck. So quickly did Tarzan of
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  Speaker 1: the Apes drag back his prey that Kulonga's cry of
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  Speaker 1: alarm was throttled in his windpipe. Hand over hand, Tarzan
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  Speaker 1: drew the struggling Black until he had him hanging by
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: his neck in mid air. Then Tarzan climbed to a
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: larger branch, drawing the still threshing victim well up into
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: the sheltering verdure of the tree. Here he fastened the
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: rope securely to a stout branch, and then, descending, plunged
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: his hunting knife into Kulonga's heart. Klo was avenged. Tarzan
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: examined the Black minutely, for he had never seen any
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: other human being. The knife, with its sheath and belt
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: caught his eye. He appropriated them. A copper anklet also
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  Speaker 1: took his fancy, and this he transferred to his own leg.
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  Speaker 1: He examined and admired the tattooing on the forehead and breast.
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  Speaker 1: He marveled at the sharp filed teeth. He investigated and
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: appropriated the feathered head dress, and then he prepared to
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: get down to business. For Tarzan of the apes was hungry,
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: and here was meat, meat of the kill, which jungle
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: ethics permitted him to eat. How may we judge him
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: by what standards? This ape man with the heart and
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: head and body of an English gentleman, and the training
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: of a wild beast, Tublat, whom he had hated, and
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: who had hated him. He had killed in a fair fight,
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: and yet never had the thought of eating Tublat's flesh
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: entered his head. It could have been as revolting to
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: him as his cannibalism to us. But who was Koolonga
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: that he might not be eaten as fairly as Horta
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: the boar or Beara the deer. Was he not simply
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: another of the countless wild things of the jungle who
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: preyed upon one another to satisfy the cravings of hunger.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: Suddenly a strange doubt stayed his hand. Had not his
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: books taught him that he was a man and was
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: not the archer a man? Also? Did men eat men alas?
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  Speaker 1: He did not know why? Then this hesitancy. Once more
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: he essayed the effort, but a qualm of nausea overwhelmed him.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: He did not understand. All he knew was that he
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: could not eat the flesh of this black man, And
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: thus hereditary instinct ages old usurped the functions of his
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: untaught mind and saved him from transgressing a world wide
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: law of whose very existence he was ignorant. Quickly he
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: lowered Kolonga's body to the ground, removed the noose, and
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: took to the trees again. End of chapter