Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-30
Nv EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS
Author of the Tarzsn Tales

soTyHE Gomangani have many sharp stick,
i which they throw. They pierce tn,
s.d,ss Of my people. They kill us. The Go,
-.ansani are bad people. They will kill u,
init We enter their village"
,srhe Tarmangani have sticks that max,
io,,d noise and kill at great distance !
->rtted KoralS. They had these wher
rerak set you free from their trap. II
gorak had run away from them, you would
80, be a prisoner among the Tarmaneani
p0r rhs baboon scratched his head. In a
..ueh circle about him and the apernar
tstted the bulls of his herd. They blink
"A their eyes, shouldered one another abou,
u, more advantageous positions, scratched
a the rotting vegetation upon the chance
n unearthing a toothsome worm, or sat
ilstlessiy eyeing their king and the strange
Wsn9ani, who called himself thus, but who
Sani. The king looked at some Of the
oIder of his subjects, as though inviting s,iT.
gcstlon.
awe arc too few" grunted one.
rThere are the baboons of the hill coun.
trvb suggested another "They are as
many as the leaves of the forest. They.
loo hate tie Gomangani. They love to
drht. The are very savage. Let us ask
them to accompany us. Then can we kill
a
an growled horribly, bristling his stifr
ha..
That is the way to talk" cried the
killer; but we do not need the baboons of
the hill country. We are enough. It will
take a long time to fetch them. Meriem
may be dead and eaten before we could
free her. Let us set out at once for the
village OF the Gomangani. II we travel
very fast 1t will not take long to reach It.
Then, all at the same time, we can charge
into the village, growing and barking The
Gomangani will be-very frightened and will
nun away. While they are gone we can
seize Meriem and carry her off, We do
not have to kill or be killed--all that Koralt
wishes s his Mericm"
I'VE are too few" croaked the old ape
again.
aYes, we are too few" echoed others.
Korak could not persuade them They
would help him gladly; but they must do
Il in their own way, and that meant en-.
listing the services of their kinsmen and
allies Of the hill country.
So Korak was forced to give In. All he
could do for the present was to urge them
TO haste, and at his suggestion the king
baboon, with dozen of his mightiest bulls,
agreed to go to the hill country with
Korak, leaving the remainder of the herd
behind.
Once enlisted in the adventure, the ba.
boons became quite enthusiastic about it,
The delegation set off Immediately. They
travelled swiftly; but the apeman found no
difficulty in keeping UP with them They
made tremendous racket as they passed
through the trees, in an endeavor to sug.
gest to enemies In their front that a great
herd was approaching, for when the ba.
hoons travel in large numbers there is no
Jungle creature who cares to molest them.
When the nature of the country required
much travel upon the level. and the dis
tance between trees was great, they moved
silently, knowing that the lion and the leop-
ard would not be fooled by noise when they
could see plainly for themselves that only
q handful of baboons were on the trail.
For two days the party raced through
the savage country, passing out of the dense
Jungle into an open plain, and across this
to timbered mountain slopes. Korak never
before had been here. It was a new coun-