1891 Jungle Tales Of Tarzan

Date:  January 25, 1891 full moon
Event:  Tarzan made an unrecorded visit to Mbonga's village to watch the natives dance and to steal arrows and supplies.
Source:  Although ERB did not include this event in his writings, the date is based on the author's own descriptions. ERB consistently tells us in many many passages throughout Tarzan Of The Apes and Jungle Tales Of Tarzan that the ape-man goes to Mbonga's village on the full moon to watch the natives dance and to replenish his arrows and other needs. 
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Andy Kubert

Date:  February 23, 1891 full moon
Event:  Tarzan made an unrecorded visit to Mbonga's village to watch the natives dance and to steal arrows and supplies.
Source:  Although ERB did not include this event in his writings, the date is based on the author's own descriptions. ERB consistently tells us in many many passages throughout Tarzan Of The Apes and Jungle Tales Of Tarzan that Tarzan goes to Mbonga's village on the full moon to watch the natives dance and to replenish his arrows and other needs.
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Joe Kubert

Date:  March 25, 1891 full moon
Event:  Tarzan made an unrecorded visit to Mbonga's village to watch the natives dance and to steal arrows and supplies.
Source:  Although ERB did not include this event in his writings, the date is based on the author's own descriptions. ERB consistently tells us in many many passages throughout Tarzan Of The Apes and Jungle Tales Of Tarzan that Tarzan goes to Mbonga's village on the full moon to watch the natives dance and to replenish his arrows and other needs.
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Jeffery Catherine Jones

    
Date:  April 24, 1891 full moon.                                                                                                

Event:  Tarzan made an unrecorded visit to Mbonga's village to watch the natives dance and to

steal arrows and supplies.                                    

Source:  Although ERB did not include this event in his writings, the date is based on the author's own.descriptions. ERB consistently tells us in many many passages throughout Tarzan Of The Apes and Jungle Tales Of Tarzan that Tarzan goes to Mbonga's village on the full moon to 

watch the natives dance. 

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Frank Frazetta

Date: May 23, 1891 full moon
Event:  Tarzan made an unrecorded visit to Mbonga's village to watch the natives dance and to steal arrows and supplies.
Source:  Although ERB did not include this event in his writings, the date is based on the author's own descriptions.  ERB consistently tells us in many many passages throughout Tarzan Of The Apes and Jungle Tales Of Tarzan that Tarzan goes to Mbonga's village on the full moon to watch the natives dance and to replenish his arrows and other needs.
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Jeff Jones

Date:  June 22, 1891 full moon 

Events: Tarzan made an unrecorded visit to Mbonga's village to watch the natives dance and to steal arrows and supplies. 

Source:  Although ERB did not include this event in his writings, the date is based on the author's own descriptions. ERB consistently tells us in many many passages throughout Tarzan Of The Apes and Jungle Tales Of Tarzan that Tarzan goes to Mbonga's village on the full moon to watch the natives dance and to replenish his arrows and other needed supplies. 

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Nik Poliwko

Date:  July 21, 1891 full moon                              

Event:  Tarzan made an unrecorded visit to Mbonga's village to watch the natives dance and to steal arrows and supplies.

Source:  Although ERB did not include this event in his writings, the date is based on the author's own descriptions. ERB consistently tells us in many many passages throughout Tarzan Of The Apes and Jungle Tales Of Tarzan that Tarzan goes to Mbonga's village on the full moon to watch the natives dance and to replenish his arrows and other needed supplies. 

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Joe Jusko

Date:  August 19, 1891 full moon

Event:  Tarzan searches for God at Mbonga's village..

Source:  Again ERB offers no exact date, but he does provide hints that The God Of Tarzan occurs very shortly after A Fight For The Bula. These hints were in the describing of Gazan. "It was the wail of a tiny balu." "Teeka's baby" "its soft baby hair." ERB-Jungle Tales Of Tarzan.  The ape-man being at the village suggests that he is there to steal arrows and to watch the natives dance, as is his habit. This we have shown occurs on a full moon. The full moon date is provided by U.S.Naval Observatory Astronomical Applications Department's Phases Of The Moon.

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J. Allan St. John 

Date:  August 20, 1891
Event:  Tarzan rescues Gazan from Hista, the snake.
Source:  The following day. ERB-Jungle Tales Of Tarzan.

John Buscema

Date:  September 18, 1891 full moon

Event:  Tarzan made an unrecorded visit to Mbonga's village to watch the natives dance and to steal arrows and supplies.
Source:  Although ERB did not include this event in his writings, the date is based on the author's own descriptions. ERB consistently tells us in many many passages throughout Tarzan Of The Apes and Jungle Tales Of Tarzan that Tarzan goes to Mbonga's village on the full moon to watch the natives dance and to replenish his arrows and other needs.
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Frank Frazetta

Date:  October 17, 1891 full moon
Event:  Tarzan made an unrecorded visit to Mbonga's village to watch the natives dance and to steal arrows and supplies.
Source:  Although ERB did not include this event in his writings, the date is based on the author's own descriptions. ERB consistently tells us in many many passages throughout Tarzan Of The Apes and Jungle Tales Of Tarzan that Tarzan goes to Mbonga's village on the full moon to watch the natives dance and to replenish his arrows and other needs.
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Tom Grindberg

                                                                                                                                                    Date:  November 16, 1891 full moon 

Event:  Tarzan made an unrecorded visit to Mbonga's village to watch the natives dance and to steal arrows and supplies. 

Source:  Although ERB did not include this event in his writings, the date is based on the author's own descriptions. ERB consistently tells us in many many passages throughout Tarzan Of The Apes and Jungle Tales Of Tarzan that Tarzan goes to Mbonga's village on the full moon to watch the natives dance and to replenish his arrows and other needs. 

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Jamie Chase

Date:  December 15, 1891  full moon 

Event: Tarzan kidnaps 10-year-old Tibo, the son of Momaya and Ibeto.

Source:  No dates are given, but by ERB's descriptions of Gazan we know not a great amount of time has passed. "little balu." "Just now the apeling was developing those arboreal tendencies which were to stand him in such good stead during the years of his youth, when rapid flight into the upper terraces was far more importance and value than his undeveloped muscles and untrained fighting fangs." ERB-Jungle Tales Of Tarzan. Assuming the Mangani and gorillas are basically on the same evolutionary scale, we can closely measure the time passage by Gazan's growth. According to Dian Fossey, author of Gorilla's In The Mist, "By the fourth month the baby was able to totter away from the mother for distances up to ten feet, though most gorilla infants remain within arms reach - some six feet - of their mothers until about six months old. 

      Since Tarzan was at the village, it suggests that he was there to steal arrows and watch the natives dance. That, we have shown, occurs on the full moon. The full moon date is provided by the U.S.Naval Observatory Astronomical Applications Departments Phases Of The Moon

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Gorillas In The Mist

Date:  December 22, 1891
Event:  Tarzan notices a change in Tibo.
Source:  "After a week."  ERB-Jungle Tales Of Tarzan

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James Michael Moody is a lifelong fan and collector of Edger Rice Burroughs. Moody has contributed over two hundred articles to various ERB-related fanzines, over a span of forty-five years. He also manages an unauthorized Tarzan blog titled, Greystoke Chronologist: James Michael Moody. There the researcher chronologies the Tarzan books starting in May 1872 (known as the pushback theory).instead of the more excepted date May 1888.

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1890 Tarzan Of The Apes

Date:  September 1, 1890
Event:  Tarzan could speak no English but yet he could read and write it. He had never seen a human being other than himself.
Source:  "at eighteen," ERB-Tarzan Of The APES.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Date:  September 27, 1890 

Event:  Kala, Tarzan's ape foster mother, is killed by Kulonga.
Source:  The actual date of Kala's death is not provided by ERB in Tarzan Of The Apes, but for Tarzan to be eighteen as reported the event had to occur after September 1, which is the ape man's birthday. To provide a working date I depended on the fact that ERB consistently tells us in many many passages throughout Tarzan Of The Apes and Jungle Tales Of Tarzan that the jungle lord goes to Mbonga's village on the full moon to watch the natives dance and to replenish his arrows and other needs. Kulonga was out hunting for a catch for the full moon dance when he came upon Kala. Checking the U.S. Naval Observatory's Phases of the Moon we discover there was a full moon on September 28. Since Kulonga is hunting the game for that upcoming event, and going by ERB's recorded description, it is most probable the day before the dance is when Tarzan's Mangani foster mother was killed.

Burne Hogarth

Date:  September 28, 1890
Event:  Tarzan kills Kulonga and he discovers Mbonga's village.
Source:  The day following Kala's death. ERB-Tarzan Of The Apes. Burroughs in Tarzan Of The Apes does not provide us with the actual date. As reported above ERB in many many passages throughout Tarzan Of The Apes and Jungle Tales Of Tarzan tells us that the ape-man goes to Mbonga's village on the full moon to watch the natives dance and to replenish his arrows and other needs. ERB at this point does not explicitly say Tarzan watched the natives dance that night, but as one continues to read we discover that by Tarzan's third recorded visit to Mbonga's village, as reported in Jungle Tales Of Tarzan, the ape-man has already developed the love of watching the natives dance.
     "Although he hated them, Tarzan derived considerable entertainment in watching them at their daily life within the village, and especially at their dances, when the fires, glared against their naked bodies as they leaped and turned and twisted in mimic warfare." ERB-Jungle Tales Of Tarzan.
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Burne Hogarth

Date:  October 27, 1890
Event:  Tarzan finds his mother's locket, his father's diary, and a photograph of John Clayton.
Source:  The day before setting out on his second recorded visit to Mbonga's village. ERB-Tarzan  Of The Apes. Burroughs does not provide the exact date but the clue is, the day before his second visit to Mbonga's village. Since we have established the fact that the natives dance on full moons this event occurs one day before a full moon.

Joe Kubert

Date:  October 28, 1890, a full moon
Event:  Tarzan's second trip to Mbonga's village was to steal arrows.
Source:  "ere a month had passed since his first visit." ERB-Tarzan Of The Apes. Although Burroughs does not mention native dancing, we have now established that their dancing was one of Tarzan's favorite entertainments. Therefore, he always combined stealing arrows with dance nights. The reason ERB highlights the arrows, in this case, is because of Tarzan's archery practice.
     The full moon date is from the U.S. Naval Observatory Astronomical Applications Department's Phases Of The Moon.
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Thomas Yeates

Date:  October 29, 1890
Event:  Tarzan Of The Apes fades out and Jungle Tales Of Tarzan begins.
Source:  "That night he slept in the forest not far from the village, and early the next morning set out slowly on his homeward march," ERB-Tarzan Of The Apes.

Norman Bean

Date:  November 24, 1890
Event:  Tarzan fights Taug for Teeka.
Source:  The exact date is untold, but after Tarzan realizes Teeka is not for him Jungle Tales Of Tarzan chapter one states; "In Teeka he had seen within the past few hours a substitute for Kala - someone to fight and hunt for - someone to caress, but now his dream was shattered." ERB-Jungle Tales Of Tarzan.
     This passage strongly suggests Tarzan's fight with Taug occurs very shortly after Kala's death. Not immediately, however, for when Tarzan goes to the village two days later ERB states, "It had been some time since Tarzan had visited the blacks and looked down from the shelter of the great trees which overhung their palisade upon the activities of his enemies, from among whom had come the slayer of Kala," ERB-Jungle Tales Of Tarzan.

John Busma

Date:  November 26, 1890, a full moon
Event:  Tarzan watched Mbonga's warriors set a trap and followed them home in hopes of seeing them dance.
Source:  Two days after his fight with Taug. ERB-Jungle Tales Of Tarzan.
Chat:  This is Tarzan's third recorded visit to Mbonga's village and due to descriptions in other places it most likely was his third actual visit as well. One hint is that after Tarzan watched the blacks build the trap ERB states, "Tarzan wondered what the thing might be, and why, when they had built it, they turned away and started back along the trail in the direction of their village." ERB-Jungle Tales Of Tarzan.
     From this we can gather Tarzan is looking at his first trap which proves he has little experience with the natives. Up to this point, we are told Tarzan goes once a month, man time, or once a moon, ape time, to replenish his arrows. It is specifically stated this visit is to watch the blacks dance; but the passage quoted above, "it had been some time since Tarzan had visited the blacks," suggest that stealing arrows is most likely on the agenda also. ERB-Jungle Tales Of Tarzan.
     The full moon date is provided by the U.S. Naval Observatory Astronomical Applications Department's Phases Of The Moon.
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Pablo Marcos

Date:  November 27, 1890
Event:  Tarzan discovers Taug in the native's trap and rescues him.
Source:  "Early the following morning." ERB-Jungle Tales Of Tarzan.

Frank Frazetta

Date:  November 28, 1890
Event: Tarzan rescues Tantor, but is captured by the natives. He is taken to Mbonga's village which is his fourth recorded visit.
Source:  Again ERB offers no date, but again Tarzan's ignorance of the trap shows the small passage of time. "Puzzle as he would, however, he could not solve the mystery of the concealed pit, for the ways of the blacks were still strange ways to Tarzan. They had entered his jungle but a short time before - the first of their kind to encrouch upon the age-old supremacy of the beasts which laired there." ERB-Jungle Tales Of Tarzan

Jeffrey Jones

Date:  December 26, 1890

Event:  Tarzan pays an unrecorded visit to Mbonga's village to watch the natives dance and steal arrows.

Source:  Although this date is not directly provided by Burroughs, it is based on ERB's provided information that Tarzan goes once a month to Mbonga's village on a full moon to watch them dance and steal supplies. The full moon date is supplied by the U.S. Naval Observatory Astronomical Applications Department's Phases Of The Moon.

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Thomas Yeates

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James Michael Moody is a lifelong fan and collector of Edger Rice Burroughs. Moody has contributed over two hundred articles to various ERB-related fanzines, over a span of forty-five years. He also manages an unauthorized Tarzan blog titled, Greystoke Chronologist: James Michael Moody. There the researcher chronologies the Tarzan books starting in May 1872 (known as the pushback theory).instead of the more excepted date May 1888.

James Michael Moody is also the author of the action-packed Sci-Fi fantasy adventure Unium series. Pioneers On Unium, published December 31, 2019, and Exiled On Unium, published August 25, 2022. Swordsman On Unium is going through the publishing process.