1907 March The Son Of Tarzan

DATE:  March 18, 1907                                                                                                                EVENT:  A long boat of the Majorie W., while floating down the broad Ugambi, discovered Alexis Paulvitich, still in his thirties, on the river bank.                                                                  SOURCE:  "Once on board the Majorie W. the stranger told his rescuers a pitiful tale of privation, hardships, and torture, extending over a period of ten years." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan. 

    "It had been ten years since the Russian had escaped the fate of his friend, the arch-fiend Rokoff, and not once, but many times during those ten years had Paulvitich cursed the fate that had given to Nicholas Rokoff's death and immunity from suffering while it had meted to him the hideous terrors of an existence infinitely worse than the death that persistently refused to claim him." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.

    "Though still in his thirties, Alexis Paulvitch could easily have passed for eighty." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.  

Tarzan's Africa

DATE:  March 21, 1907

EVENT:  After rescuing Paulvitch the Majorie W., which had been chartered by scientists, left the African coast and anchored at Jungle Island. There Paulvitch found the ape Akut, who he renamed Ajax.

SOURCE:  In The Beasts Of Tarzan chapter two Rokoff marooned Tarzan on Jungle Island and in chapter three it took the Kincaid three days to reach the coast. I used those same three days for the return journey.

The Son Of Tarzan

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.