Chapter 10

The Swede

As the warriors, clustered thick about Tarzan and Sheeta, realized that it was a flesh-and-blood panther that had interrupted their dance of death, they took heart a trifle, for in the face of all those circling spears even the mighty Sheeta would be doomed.

Rokoff was urging the chief to have his spearmen launch their missiles, and the black was upon the instant of issuing the command, when his eyes strayed beyond Tarzan, following the gaze of the ape-man.

With a yell of terror the chief turned and fled toward the village gate, and as his people looked to see the cause of his fright, they too took to their heels--for there, lumbering down upon them, their huge forms exaggerated by the play of moonlight and camp fire, came the hideous apes of Akut.

The instant the natives turned to flee the ape-man's savage cry rang out above the shrieks of the blacks, and in answer to it Sheeta and the apes leaped growling after the fugitives. Some of the warriors turned to battle with their enraged antagonists, but before the fiendish ferocity of the fierce beasts they went down to bloody death.

Others were dragged down in their flight, and it was not until the village was empty and the last of the blacks had disappeared into the bush that Tarzan was able to recall his savage pack to his side. Then it was that he discovered to his chagrin that he could not make one of them, not even the comparatively intelligent Akut, understand that he wished to be freed from the bonds that held him to the stake.

Answer this series of questions:

1. Who was Rokoff urging?
2. What did the warriors realize?
3. What kind of yell made the chief flee?
4. Where did the chief head towards?
5. What did they see in the moonlight?
6. What was he not able to make anyone understand?
7. Was Akut smart?
8. When was Tarzan able to call his pack to his side?
9. Who leaped after the fugitives?
10. Did the beasts die?
1. the chief to have his spearmen launch their missiles
2. that it was a flesh-and-blood panther that had interrupted their dance of death
3. the ape-man's savage cry
4. the village gate
5. the hideous apes of Akut.
6. that he wished to be freed from the bonds that held him to the stake
7. yes
8. yes
9. Sheeta and the apes
10. yes