Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-05-25

touched the village and to this spot he
made his way, lured by fever Of curl
osity to behold animals OF his own kind,
and TO learn more OF their ways and
view the strange lalrs in which they
lived.
His savage life among the fierce wild
hrutes OF the Jungle left no opening for
any thought that these could be aught
else than enemies. Similarity of form led
him Into no erroneous conception of the
welcome that would be accorded him
should he be discovered by these, the first
of his own kind he had ever seen.
Tarzan OF the Apes was no sentimental
list. He knew nothing of the brotherhood
Of man All things outside his own tribe
were his deadly enemies. with the few
exceptions OF which Tantor, the elephant,
was a marked example.
End he realized all this without malice
or hatred. To kill was the law of the
wild world he knew Few were his
primitive pleasures, but the greatest Of
these was to hunt and kill, and so he
accorded to others the right to cherish
the same desires as he even though he
himself might be the object Of their
hunt
His strange life had left him neither
morose nor bloodthirsty That he joyed
In killing. and that he killed with joy
Gus laugh upon his handsome lips be-
tokened no innate cruelty. He killed for
food most often but. being a man, he
sometimes killed for pleasure, a thing
which no other animal does; for 1t has
remained for man alone among all crea-
lures to kill senselessly and wantonly
foi the mere pleasure OF infllcting suffer
ing and death.
And when he killed for revenge, or in
self-defense. he did that also without
hysteria, but 1t was a very busness-lIke
proceeding which admitted of no levity.
So IL was that nov. as he cautiously
approached the village of Mbonga, he
was quite prepared either to kill or be
killed should he be discovered. He pro-
ceeded with unwonted stealth, for Ku-
Tonga had taught him great respect for
the little sharp splinters of wood which
dealt death so swiftly and unerrngly.
At length he came to great tree,
| heavy laden with Thick foliage and loaded
with pendant loops of giant creepers.
From this almost inpenetrable bower
above the village he crouched. looking
! down upon the scene below him, wonder
| ing over every feature of this new,
| strange life.
There were naked children running and
| playing in the village street There
were women grinding dried plantain in
| crude stone mortars, while others were
| fashoning cakes from the powdered -four.
| Out In the fields he could see still other
women hoelng, wedding or gathering.
All wore strange prOtruding girdles of
dried grass about their hips and many
were loaded with brass and copper ank-
D.! let's, armlets and bracelets. Around
many a dusky neck hung curously
colled strands of wire, while several were
further ornamented by huge nose rings.
Tarzan of the Apes looked with grow
/ ing wonder at these strange creatures.
! Doing in the shade he saw several men,
| while at the extreme outskirts of the
| clearing he occasionally caught glimpses
| of armed warriors apparently guarding
the village against surprise froiu an at
| tacking enemy.
| He noticed that the women alone
| worked. Nowhere was there evidence of
man tillnG the fields or performing
| any of the homely duties of the village.
Finally his eyes rested upon a woman
directly beneath him.
Before her was small cauldron
standing over a low fire and in 1t bub-
| bied a thick, reddish, tarry mass. On
one side of her lay a quantity of wooden
arrows the points of which she dipped
into the seething substance, then laying
| them upon a narrow rack of boughs
which stood upon her other side.