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.
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| J. Allen St. John |
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.
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