Thursday, July 4, 2019

1895 March The Return Of Tarzan

Date:  Monday, March 2, 1895
Event:  The Tennington yacht sales from Cape Town.
Source:  "And so it was settled that they should sail the following Monday."  ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

Lady Alice
Lady Alice

Date:  March 4, 1895
Event:  Hazel showed Jane a picture of John Caldwell and explained he had been lost at sea upon their recent voyage.  Jane recognized him as Tarzan.
Source:  Two days out the girls were sitting in Hazel's cabin, looking at some prints she had finished in Cape Town."  ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

Russ Manning
Russ Manning

Date:  March 4, 1895
Event:  The Lady Alice sunk and Jane, William Cecil Clayton, Monsieur Thuran (Nickolas Rokoff) and three sailors end up in a lifeboat together.
Source:  "two days out", ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.


J. Allen St. John
J. Allen St. John

Date:  morning March 5, 1895
Event:  Jane and her boat find they have been separated from the others.
Source:  "Jane Porter had been the first of those in the lifeboat to awaken the morning after the wreck of the Lady Alice."  ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

J. Allen St. John
J. Allen St. John

Date:  March 8, 1895
Event:  The occupants of the other three boats from the Lady Alice land.
Source:  "While farther up the coast, a few miles beyond the cabin, in crude but well-built shelters, lived a little party of eighteen souls - the occupants of the three boats from the Lady Alice from which Clayton's boat had become separated."  ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.  "Over a smooth sea they had rowed to the mainland in less than three days."  ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

Lady Alice
Lady Alice

Date:  March 12, 1895
Event:  The first sailor dies aboard Jane's boat.
Source:  "Just a week from the day the Lady Alice went down the sailor died horribly in frightful convulsions."  ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

Lady Alice
Lady Alice

Date:  night March 12, 1895
Event:  Sailor Wilson attacks William Cecil Clayton, then leaps overboard the lifeboat.
Source:  "The moon had risen, and as he opened his startled eyes he saw Wilson creeping stealthily toward him, his mouth open and his swollen tongue hanging out."  ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

Lady Alice
Lady Alice

Date:  the following morning, March 13, 1895
Event:  Monsieur Thuran (Nickolas Rokoff), William Cecil Clayton and Spider draw franc coins to see who is food.
Source:  "The result of his cogitation developed the following morning in a proposition he made to Spider and Clayton."  ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.  "The oldest date is eighteen-seventy-five, and there is only one of that year."  ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.  "The 1875 piece was a  hair thinner than the other coins, but neither Clayton nor Spider could have detected it without the aid of a micrometer.  When he brought forth his hand it contained an 1888 franc piece." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

Lady Alice
Lady Alice

Date March 20, 1895
Event:  Jane had not spoken in three days and Clayton and Monsieur Thuran (Nickolas Rokoff) draw coins again.
Source:  "The strain had exhausted those who remained to such an extent that they lay half unconscious for the balance of the day, nor was the subject referred to again for several days."  ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

Russ Manning
Russ Manning

Date:  March 20, 1895
Event:  The night Tarzan became chief of the Waziri Jane and company were floating in the Atlantic.
Source:  "The very night that Tarzan of the Apes became chief of the Waziri, the woman he loved lay dying in a tiny boat two hundred miles west of him upon the Atlantic." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.
Chat:  From this provided description, we now know the Waziri village is approximately two hundred miles east of the Greystoke cabin.

Zdenek Burian
Zdenek Burian

Date:  March 20, 1895, through March 27, 1895
Event:  Tarzan and his Waziri warriors escort the Manyuema slavers to the northern boundary of Waziri.
Source:  "The week following the induction of Tarzan into the kingship of the Waziri was occupied in escorting the Manyuema of the Arab raiders to the northern boundary of Waziri in accordance with the promise which Tarzan had made them."  ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

J. Allen St. John
J. Allen St. John

Date:  March 21, 1895
Event:  William Cecil Clayton and Jane are awakened by rain and land is sighted.
Source:  "With a start, he gained consciousness to find himself wet through by torrents of rain that were falling upon his body and his upturned face.  A tropical shower was beating down upon them."  ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.
Chat:  If you will notice ERB, the author, tells us William Cecil Clayton and Jane are awakened by rain.  The rainy season in Portuguese Angola is between October thru May.  Since Jane and William Cecil Clayton's lifeboat events occur in March, my 1872 Greystoke timeline passes ERB, the author's hidden test.

The Return Of Tarzan
The Return Of Tarzan

Date:  March 21, 1895
Event:  After making shore and eating fruit the three slept until dark.
Source:  "Here, thoroughly exhausted, they threw themselves down to rest, sleeping until dark."  ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

C. Edmund Monroe
C. Edmund Monroe

Date:  March 21, 1895, through April 21, 1895
Event:  For a month Jane, William Cecil Clayton, and Monsieur Thuran (Nickolas Rokoff) lived on the beach.
Source:  "For a month they lived upon the beach in comparative safety."  ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

The Return Of Tarzan
The Return Of Tarzan

Date:  March 27, 1895
Event:  Tarzan and the Waziri began making preparations to visit Opar.
Source:  "Almost immediately upon his return to the village Tarzan commenced making preparations for leading an expedition in search of the ruined city of gold which old Waziri had described to him."  ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

Richard Powers
Richard Powers

Date:  March 28, 1895
Event:  Tarzan and the Waziri began their trek to Opar.The Return Of Tarzan
Source:  "So one glorious tropical morning Waziri, chief of the Waziri, set out at the head of fifty clean-limbed ebon warriors in quest of adventure and of riches."  ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

Russ Manning
Russ Manning



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.

No comments:

Post a Comment