The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-01

TAT AzIRTS warriors marched at
 ViNf rapid trot through the
 WV jungle in the direction of the
 village. For a few minutes the sharp cracking of guns ahead warned them to haste, but finally the reports dwindled to an occasional shot. presently ceasing altogether. Nor was this less ominous than the rattle of musketry. for it suggested but single solution to the little band of rescuers-- that the lilly garrisoned village had al- ready succumbed to the onslaught of superior force.
 The returning hunters had covered little more than three miles of the five that had separated them from the viii lage when they met the first of the fugitfves who had escaped the bullets and the clutches of the foe. There were a dozen women, youths and girls in the party, and so excited were they that they could scarce make them selves understood as they tried to re- late to Wazirs the calamity that had befa1len his people.
 They are as many as the leaves of the forest" cried one of the women, in attempting to explain the enemy's force. There are many Arabs and countless Manyuema, and they all have guns. They crept close to the village before we knew that they were about, and then, with many shouts. they rushed in upon us, shooting down men and women and children Those of us who could fed in all directions into the jungle, but more were killed. I do not know whether they took any prisoners or not they seemed only bent upon Killing us all.
 
 now resumed more slowly and with, greater stealth, for Waziri knew that it was too late to rescue; their only mis- sion could be .one of revenge. Inside the next mile a hundred more fugitives were met. There were many men among these and so the fighting strength of the party was augmented.
 Now a dozen warriors were sent creeping ahead to reconnoiter. Waziri remained with the main body, which advanced in a thin line that spread in great crescent through the forest. By the chiefs side walked Tarzan. Presently one of the scouts returned. He had come within sight of the viii lage.
 ..They are all within the palisade, 7 he whispered.
 s'Goodg' said Waziri. eve shall rush in upon them and slay them all. l.'' 'sWaitlv cautioned Tarzan. If there are even fifty guns within the palisade we shall be repuIsed and slaughtered. Let me go alone through the trees, so Isthat may look down upon them from above and see inst how many there be and what chance we might have were we to charge. Will you wait, WazirfY'
 s.Yes,. said the old chief. eGor
 So Tarzan sprang into the trees and disappeared in the direction of the vil- 1 lage. He moved more cautiously than was his wont, for he knew that men with guns could reach him quite as easily in the treetops as on the ground. | In five minutes he had wormed his way to the great tree that oyerhung l the palisade at one end of the village, and from his point of vantage looked down upon the savage horde beneath. He counted fifty Arabs and estimated that there were five times as many cannibal Manyuema.
 The ape-man saw that to charge that wild horde, armed as they were with ! guns, and barricaded behind the locked gates of the village, would be futile 1 task. and so he returned to Waziri and advised him to wait; that he, Tarzan, had a better plan, but a moment before one of the fugitives had related to Wa zirf the story of the atrocious murder of the old chiefs wife, and so crazed with rage was the old man that he cast l discretion to the winds. Calling his 1 warriors about him, he commanded them to charge, and with brandishing spears and savage yeils the little force l of scarcely more than hundred dash ed madly toward the village gates Be fore the clearing had been half crossed 1 the Arabs opened up 8 whitening frs from behind the palisade.
 With the f1Yst volley Waziri fell. The speed of the chargers slackened. Another yolley brought down half dozen more. A few reached the bar red gates only to be shot in their tracks without the ghost of chance to gain the inside of the palisade, and 1 then the whole attack crumpled, and I the remaining warriors scampered 1 back into the forest.
 As they ran the raiders opened the I gates, rushing after them to complete 1 the days work with the utter extfr- imitation of the tribe. Tarzan had been among the last to turn back to ward the forest, and now as he ran slowly he turned IToIn. AlAHS lo Luie te speed well aimed arrow into the body of pursuer.
 Once within the jungle he found g little knot of determined blacks wait ing to give battle to the oncomine horde, but Tarzan cried to them tc scatter, keeping out of harms way un .l til they could gather in force after dark
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