Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-03
TIE RETURN OF TARZAN
BY EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS
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AUTHOR OF "TARZAN OF THE APEs'

a better location. none has ever been
found"
And the raiders have never found you
hero7" asked Tsrzan
About year ago small party OF
Arabs and Manyuema stumbled upon us,
/ but we drove them OF, killing many. for
for the wild beasts they are, picking them
on one by one, until but HANDFUL re-
/ malned, but these escaped u.s.
AS Bueuii talked he fingered heavy
| cold arr,iet that encircled the glossy side
1 OF his left arm. Tarzan's eyes had been
upon the ornament, but his thoughts were
| elsewhere. Presently he recalled the
| question he had tried TO ask when he hrst
/ came to the eribe-the question ne coulu
| NOT at the time make them understand
| For weeks he had forgotten 30 trivial
| thing as gold for he had been Tor some
| time a truly primeval man with no
| thought beyond today But OF suddeh
\ the sight Of gold awakened the sleeping y
| nivIlization that was In him, and with IL
came the lust for wealth. That lesson
Terzan had learned well In his brief ex-
| nerience of the ways of civilized man He
| knew that gold meant power and pleas
ure He pointed to the bauble.
"From whence came that yellow metal
Busuli2" he asked.
The black pointed toward the southeast;;
"a noon'e march away-maybe more
he replied -.,, ..,,., r.rza,
mo. hut some OF our people were there
| wears ago when my father was yet
| Young man one OF the parties that
searched farther for q location for the
| tribe when first they settled here came
mon a arrange people who wore many
ornaments of yellow metal. Their spears
were tipped with it, as were their arrows.
anv they cooked in vessels made all OF
solid metal like my armlet.
"Thev lived in q great village In huts
that were built OF stone and surrounded
by a great wall. They were very fierce
rushing out and falling upon our war
riors before ever they learned that their
errand was a peaceful one. Our men were
few in number. but they held their own
at the top of little rocky hill, until
| the fierce people went back at sunset into
their wicked city Then our warriors
| came down from their hill and, after
| taking many ornaments OF yellow metal
] from tho bodies of those they had slain
| they marched back out of the valley,
nor have any of us ever returned.
'They are wicked people-neither white
like you nor black like me, but covered
with hair as is Bolgani, the gorilla. Yes:
| they are very bad people indeed, ana
Chowambi was glad to get out of their
| country"
and are none Of those alive who were
with Chowambi and saw these strange
people and their wonderful city?" asked
| Tarzan.
"wnziri, our chief was there" replied
1 Busuli He was a very young man then,
but he accompanied Chowambi. who was
| his father"
So that night Tarzan asked Waziri
I about It and waziri, who was now an old
man. said that 1t was a long march, but
| that the way was not difficult to follow.
| He remembered II we'll.
"For ten days we followed this river
which runs beside our village. Up toward
its source We travelled until on the tenth
day we came to a little spring far up
upon the side of lofty mountain range.
| In this little spring our river is born. The
next day we crossed over the top OF the
mountain and upon the other side we
| came to tiny rivulet that had now be-
come a river, until we came to a greater
| river. into which 1t emptled, and which
\ ran down the centre of a mighty valley.
Then we followed this large river
toward its source. hoping to come to more
| open land. After 20 days of marching
| from the time we had crossed the noun
tains and passed out of our country we
| came again to another range or noun
tains. Up their side we followed the great
river, that had now dwindled to tiny
| rivulet, until we came to a little cave near
tho mountain-top In this cave was the
| mother of the river,
"I remember that we camped there that
night, and that 1t was very cold, for tho
mountains were high The next day we
decided to ascend to the top of the noun
talns and see what the country upon the
other side looked like, and II II seemed
no better than that which he had so far
traversed we would return to our village
and tell them that they had already found
. t.a.N In, oil he xunrid tn live.
"And so we clambered up the face OF
the rocky cliffs until we reached the
summit, and there from fiat mountain
top we saw, not far beneath US, shallow
valley very narrow: and upon the raT
side OF It was a great village of stone
much of which had fallen and crumbled
into decay"
The balance Of Wazirrs story was prac-
tlcally the same as that which Busuli
had told,
IT should like to go there and see this
strange city, said Tarzan. and gel
some OF their yellow metal from its fierce
inhabitants"
sit is a long march," replied Waziri
land / am an old man, but II you viii
wait until the rainy season Is over and
the rivers have gone down I viii take
some OF my warriors and go with you
And Tarzan had TO be contented with
that arrangement, though he would have
liked II well enough to have set Off the
next morning-he was as impatient as q
child. Really Tarzan OF the Apes wal
hut a child, or a primeval man, which
is the same thing IN a way.
The next day but one a small party
Of hunters returned TO the village from
the south TO report large herd Of ele
phant some miles away. BY climbing
trees they had had a fairly good view o
the herd, which they described as mum
bering several large tuskers. a grea
many cows and calves and full-growI
bulls whose ivory would be worth having
The balance OF the day and evening
, was flled with preparation for a grea
hunt-spears were overhauled. quiver
were replenished, bows were restrung
and all the while the village witch docto
7 passed through the busy throngs dispos
I ing OF various charms and amulets de
! signed TO protect the possessor from huT