Date: April 21, 1895
Event: Tarzan and the Waziri reach the mountains where Opar lay.
Source: "For days they marched up one river, across a low divide; down another river; up a third, until at the end of the twenty-fifth day they camped upon a mountainside, from the summit of which they hoped to catch their first view of the marvelous city of treasure." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.
Date: early morning April 22, 1895
Event: Tarzan and the Waziri scaled the cliffs that surround Opar.
Source: "Early the next morning they were climbing the almost perpendicular crags which formed the last, but greatest, natural barrier between them and their destination." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.
Date: nearly noon April 22, 1895
Event: Tarzan and the Waziri reach the top of the cliffs and view Opar from a distance.
Source: "It was nearly noon before Tarzan, who headed the thin line of climbing warriors, scrambled over the top of the last cliff and stood upon the little flat table-land of the mountaintop." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.
Date: April 22, 1895
Event: After an hour's rest Tarzan and the Waziri advance upon Opar.
Source: "For an hour the little expedition rested upon the mountaintop, and then Tarzan led them down into the valley below." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.
C. Edmund Monroe
Date: still light April 22, 1895
Event: Tarzan and the Waziri reach the outer wall of Opar.
Source: "Once in the valley their progress was rapid. so that it was still light when they halted before the towering walls of the ancient city." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.
Date: night April 22, 1895
Event: Tarzan and the Waziri camp outside the city and hear weird sounds.
Source: "That night they camped outside the city." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.
Date: morning April 23, 1895
Event: Tarzan and the Waziri enter Opar:
Source: "In the morning the effects of it were still visible in the fearful, sidelong glances that the Waziri continually cast at the massive and forbidding structure which loomed above them." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.
Event: Tarzan and the Waziri reach the mountains where Opar lay.
Source: "For days they marched up one river, across a low divide; down another river; up a third, until at the end of the twenty-fifth day they camped upon a mountainside, from the summit of which they hoped to catch their first view of the marvelous city of treasure." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.
Richard Hescox
Date: early morning April 22, 1895
Event: Tarzan and the Waziri scaled the cliffs that surround Opar.
Source: "Early the next morning they were climbing the almost perpendicular crags which formed the last, but greatest, natural barrier between them and their destination." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.
Russ Manning
Date: nearly noon April 22, 1895
Event: Tarzan and the Waziri reach the top of the cliffs and view Opar from a distance.
Source: "It was nearly noon before Tarzan, who headed the thin line of climbing warriors, scrambled over the top of the last cliff and stood upon the little flat table-land of the mountaintop." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.
Autio Book
Date: April 22, 1895
Event: After an hour's rest Tarzan and the Waziri advance upon Opar.
Source: "For an hour the little expedition rested upon the mountaintop, and then Tarzan led them down into the valley below." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.
Date: still light April 22, 1895
Event: Tarzan and the Waziri reach the outer wall of Opar.
Source: "Once in the valley their progress was rapid. so that it was still light when they halted before the towering walls of the ancient city." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.
Russ Manning
Date: night April 22, 1895
Event: Tarzan and the Waziri camp outside the city and hear weird sounds.
Source: "That night they camped outside the city." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.
Russ Manning
Event: Tarzan and the Waziri enter Opar:
Source: "In the morning the effects of it were still visible in the fearful, sidelong glances that the Waziri continually cast at the massive and forbidding structure which loomed above them." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.
Date: noon April 23, 1895
Event: Tarzan is captured by the Oparians.
Source: "For a moment every eye was bent upon the noonday sun, and then in unison the people in the galleries and those in the court below took up the refrain of a low, weird chant." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.
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Event: Tarzan kills Tha and saves La. She hides the ape-man until dark.
Source: "I will return after it is dark." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.
Date: night April 24, 1895
Event: La returns for Tarzan while fifty males go into the jungle after his trail.
Source: "It was quite dark before La, the high priestess, returned to the Chamber of the Dead with food and drink for Tarzan." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.
Nicholas Elias
Date: night April 24, 1895
Event: La leads Tarzan to another chamber and explains she will return for him the following night, Instead the ape-man escapes.
Source: "You will be safe here until tomorrow night," she said. ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.
John Totleben
Date: night April 24, 1895
Event: Tarzan discovers a secret passage out of Opar.
Source: "A mile away lay the ruined city of Opar, its domes and turrets bathed in the soft light of the equatorial moon." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.
Russ Manning
Date: night April 24, 1895
Event: Tarzan finds the treasure chamber of Opar.
Source: Carefully feeling about, he found himself within a large chamber, along the walls of which, and down the length of the floor, were piled many tiers of metal ingots of an odd though uniform shape. To his groping hands they felt not like double-headed bootjacks. The ingots were quite heavy, and but for the enormous number of them he would have been positive that they were gold; but the thought of the fabulous wealth these thousands of pounds of metal would have represented were they in reality gold, almost convinced him that they must be of some baser metal. ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.
John Buscema
Date: sunrise April 25, 1895
Event: Tarzan reunites with the Waziri. The ape-man discovers the Oparians looking for him. They unknowingly passed by and continued towards the coast.
Source: "The sun was just rising as he gained the summit of the flat mountain at the valley's western boundary." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan,
Russ Manning
Date: dusk April 25, 1895
Event: Tarzan and the Waziri return to Opar.
Source: "When Tarzan had related his adventures and told them of the yellow metal he had found, not one demurred when he outlined a plan to return by night and bring away what they could carry of the vast treasure; and so it was that as dusk fell across the desolate valley of Opar fifty ebon warriors trailed at a smart trot over the dry and dusty ground toward the giant boulder that loomed before the city." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.
Russ Manning
Date: midnight April 25, 1895
Event: Tarzan and the Waziri robbed the treasure from Opar and exited.
Source: "By midnight the entire party stood once more at the foot of the bowlder." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.
Russ Manning
Date: mid-forenoon April 26, 1895
Event: Tarzan and the Waziri reach the summit of the cliffs.
Source: "but with their heavy loads it was mid-forenoon ere they reached the summit of the cliffs." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.
Joe Kubert
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.
