1904 August The Son Of Tarzan

DATE:  August 18, 1904

EVENT:  A kindly disposed slave gave Jeanne, whom she now called Meriem, a doll, which she named Geeka.

SOURCE:  "Her little fingers were busily engaged in fashioning a skirt of grasses for a much-disheveled doll which a kindly disposed slave had made for her a year or two before." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.

CHAT:  ERB states "a year or two" you pick. Any date in between would agree with ERB's presented information. I chose a conservative "two" as a working date. The kindly disposed slave who made Meriem's doll was named Geeka. "When my brother and I were slaves in the village of the Sheik my brother made that thing for the Sheik's little daughter - yet she played with it always and called it after my brother, whose name is Geeka." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.

J. Allen St. John

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

1903 August The Son Of Tarzan

DATE:  August 18, 1903  

EVENT:  Captain Armand Jocot's daughter, the seventy-year-old, Jeanne Jacot, mysteriously disappears.

SOURCE:  "A month later little Jeanne Jacot, the seven-year-old daughter of Captain Armand Jacot, mysteriously disappeared." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.

DATE: August 18, 1903 through August 18, 1906

EVENT:  Two Swedes, Carl Jenssen, and Sven Malbihn, had searched the southern Sahara for three years without any luck trying to find the missing girl. Growing desperate they decided to get back into ivory poaching.

SOURCE: "The two Swedes, Carl Jenssen and Sven Malbihn, after three years of following false leads at last gave up the search far to the south of the Sahara to return their attention to the more profitable business of ivory poaching." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.

About The Author

James Michael Moody 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.

1903 June The Son Of Tarzan

DATE:  June 11, 1903      EVENT: Captain Armand Jacot and company began a campaign against a group of Arab marauders.                        SOURCE: "For a long shot, gaunt month he and his little troup had scoured the waste places of the desert waste in search of a band of marauders of camels, horses, and goats, as well as murders enough to have sent the whole unsavory gang to the guillotine several times over." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.

DATE: June 18,1903  
EVENT: Captain Armand Jacote, nicknamed the Hawk, and troops spent a week overtaking Achmet ben Houdin and his band of marauders before capturing them.
SOURCE: "A week before he had come upon them." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.

DATE:  evening June 18, 1903

EVENT: As the French soldiers made camp that evening Achmet ben Houdin's uncle, Sheik Amor ben Khatour, tried to bribe the French into letting his sister's boy go.

SOURCE: "Lazily he puffed upon his cigarette and watched his orderly who was preparing his evening meal." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.

DATE:  June 18,1903
EVENT:  Achmet ben Houdin was tried and hanged.
SOURCE:  "All of this happened some three years before the opening of this tale." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.

About The Author

James Michael Moody 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.