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of his tormentors.

of his tormentors.
Bnt at length the agile ape-man saw
his chance and rushed In upon the
beasts left side behind the mighty
shoulder. A giant arm encircled the
white throat and long blade sank
once, true as die, into the fierce heart
Then Tarzan arose and the black man
and the white looked into each others
eyes across the body Of their kill. and
the black made the sign Of peace and
friendship. and Tarzan Of the Apes an.
swered 1t in kind.
The noise Of their battle with SAILOR
had dra wn an excited horde Of saw
ages from the nearby village. and a
moment after the tigers death the
two men were surrounded by 1.-THE.
ebon warriors. gesticulating and jab-
boring "a thousand questions that
drowned each ventured reply.
And then the women came and the
children-eager. curious, and at sight
of Tarzan more questioning than ever.
The ape-man's new friend finally sue
ceeded In making himself heard. and
when he had done talking the men and
women of the village Wed with one
another In doing honor to the strange
creature who had saved their fellow
and battled single handed with fierce
SAILOR.
At last they led him back to their
village. where they brought him gifts
of fowl and goats and cooked food.
When he pointed to their weapons the
warriors FASTENED to fetch spear.
shield. arrows and a bow. His friend
of the encounter presented him with
the knife with which he had killed
SAILOR. There was nothing in all the
village be could not have had for the
asking.
Tarzan's first night with the savages
was devoted to wild orgy In his hon.
or. There was feasting. for the hun
tiers had brought In an antelope and
zebra as trophies of their skill. and
gallons Of the weak native beer were
consumed. AS the warriors danced in
the freight Tarzan was again i'm
pressed by the symmetry Of their tg-
ures and the regularity of their fea-
tures-the fat noses and thick lips of
the typical West Coast savage were
entirely missing. In repOse the faces
Of the men were intelligent and digni-
fed. those Of the women O:t:imes pre-
possessing.
CHAPTER XVII.
From Ape to Savage.
- T was during this dance that the
ape-man first noticed that some
of the men and many of the w0-
men wore ornaments Of gold.
principally anklets and armlets of
great weight. apparently beaten out of
the solid metal. When he expressed
wish to examine one of these the own
er removed 1t from her person and in
sisted through the medium Of signs
that Tarzan accept 1t as gift A
close scrutiny Of the bauble convinced
the apeman that the article was OF
virgin gold. and he was surprised. for
1t was the first time that he had ever
seen golden ornaments among the saw
ages Of Africa. other than the trifing
baubles those near the coast had pur-
chased or stolen from Europeans. He
tried to ask them from whence the
metal came. but he could not make
them understand.
Declining the savages' offer Of a hut.
Tarzan slept that night, as usual. in a
treetop. The following day he accom-
panied party of warriors to the near
by plains on great hunt. and so dex-
ferrous did they find this white man
with their own crude weapons that
another bond Of respect and admira-
tion was thereby wrought
For weeks Tarzan lived with his
savage friends, hunting buffalo. ante
l0pe and zebra for meat and elephant
for ivory. Quickly he learned their
simple speech. their savage customs
and the ethics Of their wild, primitive,
tribal life. He found that they were
not cannibals-that they looked with
l0athing and contempt upon men who
ate men.
Busuli. the warrior whom he had
stalked to the village. told him many
Of the tribal legeQds-hQX many years