Date: May 26, 1895
Event: Tarzan and the Waziri reach the land of the Waziri.
Source: "But they bore their burdens uncomplainingly, and at the end of thirty days entered their own country." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.
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| Don Newton |
Date: morning May 29, 1895
Event: Tarzan led the Waziri and the stolen gold to a sight very close to the Mangani's dum-dum sight.
Source: "Here, instead of continuing on toward the northwest and their village, Tarzan guided them almost directly west, until on the mourning of the thirty-third day he bade them break camp and return to their own village, leaving the gold where they had stacked it the previous night." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.
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| Artist Unknown |
Date: May 30, 1895
Event. Tarzan sent the Waziri home. The ape-man then buried the gold at the Mangani's dum-dum sight.
Source: "Leaving the gold where they had stacked it the previous night." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.
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| Jeff Jones |
Date: May 30, 1895
Event: Tarzan spends the night at the amphitheater.
Source: "That night he slept within the amphitheater," ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.
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| Hal Foster |
Date: May 31, 1895
Event: Tarzan returns to his cabin by the sea.
Source: "and early the next morning set out to revisit his cabin before returning to the Waziri." ERB- The Return Of Tarzan. "Finding things as he had left them, he went forth into the jungle to hunt." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.
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| Don Marquez |
Date: May 31, 1895
Event: Tarzan spears a lion from hiding and saves William Cecil Clayton and Jane Porter's life. Monsieur Thuran (Nickolas Rokoff) has the fever.
Source: "Nearly two months of this existence had passed when the first great calamity befell them. ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.
Event: Tarzan spears a lion from hiding and saves William Cecil Clayton and Jane Porter's life. Monsieur Thuran (Nickolas Rokoff) has the fever.
Source: "Nearly two months of this existence had passed when the first great calamity befell them. ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.
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| Russ Manning |
Date: May 31, 1895
Event: Tarzan, without showing himself, heads toward the Waziri village. Jane tells William Cecil Clayton she could never marry him.
Source: "For several long moments Jane Porter and William Cecil Clayton stood silently looking at the dead body of the beast whose prey they had narrowly escaped becoming." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.
Event: Tarzan, without showing himself, heads toward the Waziri village. Jane tells William Cecil Clayton she could never marry him.
Source: "For several long moments Jane Porter and William Cecil Clayton stood silently looking at the dead body of the beast whose prey they had narrowly escaped becoming." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.
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| Russ Manning |
Date: May 31, 1895
Event: Tarzan changes his mind about going to the village and instead spends a second night at the amphitheater of the Mangani.
Source: same day as William Cecil Clayton's rescue. ERB-The Return Of Tarzan. "That night he slept again in the amphitheater of the apes." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.
Event: Tarzan changes his mind about going to the village and instead spends a second night at the amphitheater of the Mangani.
Source: same day as William Cecil Clayton's rescue. ERB-The Return Of Tarzan. "That night he slept again in the amphitheater of the apes." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.
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| Esad Ribic |
Event: For several days Tarzan hunted and slept at the amphitheater.
Date: May 31, 1895, through June 15, 1895
Source: "That night he slept again in the amphitheater of the apes, and for several days he hunted from there, returning at night." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.
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| Simon Bisley |
.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.
