# Tarzan and the Golden Lion

Tarzan and the Golden Lion
Standing above him was Jad-bal-ja, the Golden Lion
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Tarzan and the Golden Lion
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Author of The Chessmen of Mars; At the Earth's Core; The Mucker; Tarzan the Terrible, Etc.
Illustrated by J. Allen St. John
Chicago A. C. McCLURG & CO. 1923
Copyright Edgar Rice Burroughs 1923
Published March. 1923
Copyrighted in Great Britain
Printed in the United States of America
M. A. Donohue & Co., Printers and Binders, Chicago
Contents
* ChapterPage
* IThe Golden Lion................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................1
* IIThe Training of Jad-bal-ja................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................16
* IIIA Meeting of Mystery................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................25
* IVWhat the Footprints Told................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................40
* VThe Fatal Drops................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................54
* VIDeath Steals Behind................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................70
* VII"You Must Sacrifice Him"................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................86
* VIIIMystery of the Past................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................99
* IXThe Shaft of Death................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................118
* XMad Treachery................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................131
* XIStrange Incense Burns................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................151
* XIIThe Golden Ingots................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................171
* XIIIA Strange, Flat Tower................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................185
* XIVThe Chamber of Horrors................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................201
* XVThe Map of Blood................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................219
* XVIThe Diamond Hoard................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................235
* XVIIThe Torture of Fire................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................255
* XVIIIThe Spoor of Revenge................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................270
* XIXA Barbed Shaft Kills................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................285
* XXThe Dead Return................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................303
* XXIAn Escape and a Capture................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................321
Illustrations
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* Standing above him was Jad-bal-ja, the Golden Lion................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Frontispiece
* He caught the little lion by the scruff of its neck................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................8
* Before him was the body of a giant anthropoid................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................48
* "Upon the third day Tarzan shall die beneath my knife"................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................100
* Tarzan saw a white man, bald and old and shriveled with a long white beard................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................186
* The Golden Lion with two mighty bounds was upon the High Priest................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................252
* Hunting together, the man and the great lion trod the paths toward home................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................272
* With a cry of terror the Spaniard dived into the river................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................322
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