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.
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.
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.
Date: night April 24, 1895
Event: La led 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.
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.
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.