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
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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.
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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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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
James Michael Moody is a lifelong fan and collector of Edger Rice Burroughs. Over the past forty-five years, Moody has contributed over two hundred articles to various ERB-related fanzines. 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 accepted date, May 1888.
