Date: November 23, 1894, through December 23, 1894
Event: Tarzan spends a month in Sibi-bel-Abbes. The ape-man then sets out by train, with Lieutenant Gernois, for Bou Saada.
Source: "For a month nothing of moment occurred." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.
Bou Saada, Algeria
Event: The Gernois detachment arrives at Bouira.
Source: At Bouira the detachment detrained, and the balance of the journey was made in the saddle." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan. ERB, the author, does not tell us how long that train trip takes. Since I have no way of researching that train ride I will agree with Alan Hanson's research in A Chrono-log Of ERB'S Tarzan Series and use one day.
Bouira, Algeria
Date: shortly after noon on December 25, 1894
Event: Tarzan catches up to the Gernois detachment at Sidi Aissa.
Source: "Although Tarzan was called early the following morning, the company of spahis was on the march before he had finished his breakfast." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan. "He did not overtake them until he reached Sidi Aissa shortly after noon, where the soldiers had halted for an hours rest." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan. "It was market day at Sidi Aissa, and the numberless caravans of camels coming in from the desert, and the crowds of bickering Arabs in the marketplace, filled Tarzan with a consuming desire to remain for a day that he might see more of these sons of the desert. Thus it was that the company of spahis marched on that afternoon toward Bou Saada without him. He spent the hours until dark wandering about the market in company with a youthful Arab, one Abdul, who had been recommended to him by the innkeeper as a trustworthy servant and interpreter," ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.
Sidi Aissa, Algeria
Date: after eight on December 25, 1894
Event: Tarzan rescues Sheik Kadour ben Saden's daughter, The Ouled-Nail of Sisi Aissa.
Source: "It was after eight, and the dancing was in full swing as Tarzan entered." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.
Ouled Nails Bou -Seade, Algeria
Date: the morning of December 26, 1894
Event: Sheik Kadour ben Saden and party travel to Bou Saada.
Source: "It was decided that although three of them would have to ride after practically no sleep, it would be best to make an early start in the morning, and attempt to ride all the way to Bou Saada in one day." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan. "It seemed to Tarzan that he had not closed his eyes before he was awakened, and in another hour the party was on its way south toward Bou Saada." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan. "Thus, seven guns strong, they entertained little fear of attack by day, and if all went well they should reach Bou Saada before nightfall." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.
Bou Saada, Algeria
Date: December 27-28, 1894
Event: Kadour ben Saden and his party remain in Bou Saada for two days and Tarzan stays in the Hotel de Petit Sahara.
Source: "Two days later, Kadour ben Saden, with his daughter and followers, rode south through the pass below Bou Saada, bound for their home in the far wilderness." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan. "During these two days Tarzan had spent practically all his time with Kadour ben Saden and his daughter." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.
Hotel de Petit Sahara, Bou Saada, Algeria
Date: December 29, 1894, through January 18, 1895
Event: Tarzan remains in Bou Saada for three weeks hunting. ERB-The Return Of Tarzan. "That he might keep up with the appearance of the character he was playing, Tarzan spent considerable time hunting in the vicinity of Bou Saada." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan
Chat: While in Bou Saada Tarzan often went hunting to support his cover but never killed. ERB, the author, then states something very contradictory. "In fact, Tarzan had never killed for `pleasure', nor to him was the pleasure in killing." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan. The reason this passage is contradictory is because in Tarzan Of The Apes, when the ape-man is eighteen, it is stated, "He killed for food most often, but, being a man, he sometimes killed for pleasure, a thing which no other animal does; for it has remained for man alone among all creatures to kill senselessly and wantonly for the mere pleasure of inflicting suffering and death." ERB-Tarzan Of The Apes.
Hotel De Loasis, Bou Saada, Algeria
About The Author
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.
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