1907 November The Son Of Tarzan

DATE:  November 6, 1907                                                                                                          EVENT:  Jack/Korak has his first fight with a lion.

SOURCE:  "And so the days passed, and with the traveling and the hunting and  the climbing the boy's muscles developed and his agility increased until even phlegmatic Akut marveled at the progress of his pupil." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.

Dan Spiegel

DATE:  November 6, 1907,  through November 13, 1907

EVENT:  Jack/Korak and Akut lay up for several days so the Englishman could recoup from thorn wounds.

SOURCE:  "For several days the boy and the ape lay up while the former recovered from the painful wounds inflicted by the sharp thorns." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.

Jack Clayton/Korak

DATE:  midnight November 13, 1907

EVENT:  Jenssen and Malbihn bribe Mbeeda, the Shiek's traitorous headman, to steal Jeanne/Meriem. Instead of the girl, it is the dead Mbeeda who is brought to the Swedes.

SOURCE:  "By midnight all was prepared." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan. 

    "At sight of what lay beneath both men stepped back - involuntary oaths upon their lips - for there before them lay the dead body of Mbeeda, the faithless head man." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.

Jack/Korak

DATE:  November 15, 1907

EVENT: After recovering, Jack/Korak, and Akut traveled toward the coast. They came upon a European boot print that was a couple of days old. Within hours, Jack/Korak, and Akut overtook the slow-moving safari.

SOURCE:  "When the lad felt fit again the two continued their journey toward the coast, and once more the boy's mind was filled with pleasurable anticipation." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan. 

    "The spoor was but a couple of days old when the two discovered it, which meant that the slow-moving caravan was but a few hours distant from them whose trained and agile muscles could carry their bodies swiftly through the branches above the tangled undergrowth which had impeded the progress of the laden carriers of the white men." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.

CHAT:  Jack/Korak and Akut came upon the safari of Jenssen and Malbihn as they fled from Shiek Amor ben Khatour's village. "Every now and then the rear guard and the white men cast apprehensive glances reward as though momentarily expecting the materialization of some long expected danger from that quarter," ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.

Jack Clayton/Korak

DATE:  hours later November 15, 1907

EVENT:  Jack/Korak tried to make contact with the Swed's party but they shot at him.

SOURCE:  "Days of panic ridden flight through the jungle had filled Carl Jenssen and Sven Malbihn with jangling nerves and their native boys with unreasoning terror." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.

Jack Clayton/Korak

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.