Tuesday, October 15, 2024

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
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

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