1894 November The Return Of Tarzan

Date:  eleven o'clock November 3, 1894     
Event:  Count  Raoul de Coude challenged Tarzan to a duel.
Source:  "A week later an Monsieur Flaubert was announced about eleven in the morning, as D'Arnot and Tarzan were breakfasting," ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

Paris, France

Date:  two o'clock November 3, 1894     
Event:  Lieutenant Paul d'Arnot goes visit Monsieur Flaubert to work out the details of the duel.
Source:  "And so it was arranged that D'Arnot was to call on Monsieur Flaubert at two that afternoon," ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

Paris, France

Date:  daylight November 4, 1894     
Event:  Count Raoul de Coude and Tarzan duel.
Source:  "Tomorrow morning at daylight - there is a secluded spot on the road not far from Stamps." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

J. Allen St. John

Date:  November 4, 1894, through November 15, 1894    
Event:  Tarzan lays in bed and recovers from this gunshot wounds.
Source:  "The ape-man was confined to his bed for several days." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan. The dating of this event to the exact day is impossible but by logic, we can again derive a working date. We all know Tarzan is a quick healer and I can't imagine him being bedfast very long. For a working date, I used seven days.

Paris, France

Date:  November 15, 1894     
Event:  Count Raoul de Coude got Tarzan a job as a special agent in the service of the ministry of war.
Source:  "It was the first day that Tarzan was permitted to go out that he received a message from De Coude requesting him to call at the count's office that afternoon." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

Eiffel Tower

Date:  November 16, 1894     
Event:  Tarzan left Paris en route for Marseilles and Oran.
Source:  "And so it came that on the following day Tarzan left Paris en route for Marseilles and Oran." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan

Paris, France

Date:  November 22, 1894       
Event:  Tarzan arrives at Oran, Algeria.
Source:  "At Oran, he spent a day wandering through the narrow, crooked alleys of the Arab quarter enjoying the strange, new sights." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.
Chat:  In The Return Of Tarzan ERB, the author, does not inform us how long Tarzan's journey from France to Algeria is. In Tarzan Alive Phil Farmer also does not reveal how long the voyage took. In Alan Hanson's A Chrono-log Of ERB's  Tarzan Series his research indicates the voyage took seven days. Tarzan is on a mission, so in my opinion, the ape-man would not be wasting time unnecessarily. ERB, the author, hints at no delays so I  believe Tarzan's travel was constant and normal for the day. Since I have no way to research the ship's sailing time I will depend on Alan Hanson's research.

1894 Oran, Algeria

Date:  November 23, 1894     
Event:  Tarzan arrives at Sidi-bel-Abbes, Algeria.
Source:  "The next day found him at Sidi-bel-Abbes." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

Sid-bel-Abbes, Algeria

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.

Sid-bel-Abbes, Algeria

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.

James Michael Moody also authorizes the action-packed Sci-Fi fantasy adventure Unium series. Pioneers On Unium, published December 31, 2019, Exiled On Unium, published August 25, 2022, and Swordsman On Unium, published on July 15, 2024.