DATE: August 17, 1907 EVENT: Thirty minutes after Jack departed from visiting Akut, unknowingly Tarzan shows up and finally works out a deal to purchase Akut. SOURCE: "It was during this interview that a plan occurred to Paulvitch, and as a result of it he agreed to accept a certain fabulous sum for the ape, and upon receipt of the money to deliver the beast to a vessel that was sailing south from Dover for Africa two days later." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan. August 17 is a working date only and is not provided by ERB.
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DATE: August 18, 1907
EVENT: Jack overheard Tarzan tell Jane about purchasing Akut/Ajax with plans to send him back to Africa.
SOURCE: "As chance would have it, Tarzan's son overheard his father relating to the boy's mother the steps he was taking to return Akut safely to his new jungle home," ERB-Son Of Tarzan. August 18 is a working date only and is not provided by ERB.
CHAT: Here, we find out Jack is on vacation from school. "She was obdurate, and at last the lad appeared to acquiesce in his mother's decision that the ape must be returned to Africa and the boy to school, from which he had been absent on vacation." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.
English summer vacation starts late in July and lasts six weeks.
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DATE: August 19, 1907, through August 30, 1907
EVENT: Unknowing to his parents Jack devised a plan, bought supplies, bought ship tickets to west coast Africa, etc., to take Akut home to the jungle himself.
SOURCE: "He did not attempt to visit Paulvitch's room again that day, but instead busied himself in other ways." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan. August 19 through 30 are working dates only and are not provided by ERB.
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DATE: morning August 31, 1907
EVENT: Jack sneaks in a visit to Akut after Tarzan's visit.
SOURCE: "The next morning after giving his father time to precede him and conclude his business with Paulvitch, the lad hastened to the Russian's room." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.
CHAT: It is here that we find Jack's vacation is over and it is time to return to school. "You see," he went on, "there will be no danger of detection since I am supposed to be leaving on an afternoon train for school. Then I can take Ajax, to Dover, you see, and arrive at school only a day late." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan. August 31 is a working date only and is not provided by ERB. It was concluded by the fact that it was time for Jack to return to school. Since school starts on Monday, September 1. Jack would catch the train on Sunday the day before, so he could get settled.
SOURCE: "The next morning after giving his father time to precede him and conclude his business with Paulvitch, the lad hastened to the Russian's room." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.
CHAT: It is here that we find Jack's vacation is over and it is time to return to school. "You see," he went on, "there will be no danger of detection since I am supposed to be leaving on an afternoon train for school. Then I can take Ajax, to Dover, you see, and arrive at school only a day late." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan. August 31 is a working date only and is not provided by ERB. It was concluded by the fact that it was time for Jack to return to school. Since school starts on Monday, September 1. Jack would catch the train on Sunday the day before, so he could get settled.
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EVENT: Tarzan and Jane put Jack aboard the train bound for school.
SOURCE: "That afternoon Lord and Lady Greystoke bid their son goodbye and saw him safely settled in a first-class compartment of the railway carriage that would set him down at school in a few hours." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan. August 31 is a working date only and is not provided by ERB.
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DATE: dusk August 31, 1907
EVENT: Once his parents were out of sight Jack got off the train and took a cab to Paulvitch's address.
SOURCE: "It was dusk when he arrived." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan. August 31 is a working date only and is not provided by ERB.
EVENT: Once his parents were out of sight Jack got off the train and took a cab to Paulvitch's address.
SOURCE: "It was dusk when he arrived." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan. August 31 is a working date only and is not provided by ERB.
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EVENT: Paulvitch attacks Jack and Akut kills the Russian. The ape helps the boy escape, and the two flee.
SOURCE: "For two hours under the instructions of the former the ape worked upon the knots that secured his friend's wrist." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan. August 31 is a working date only and is not provided by ERB.
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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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