1911 August The Son Of Tarzan

DATE:   August 1, 1911, through August 7, 1911

EVENT:  The wounded Jack/Meriem lay helpless for days with a fever.

SOURCE:  "For days he lay helpless with fever, while Akut and the apes hunted close by that they might protect him from such birds and beasts as might reach his lofty retreat." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.  

The Son Of Tarzan

DATE:   August 1, 1911, through August 7, 1911

EVENT:  The wounded Jack/Korak lay helpless for days with a fever.

SOURCE:  "For days he lay helpless with fever, while Akut and the apes hunted close by that they might protect him from such birds and beasts as might reach his lofty retreat." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan. August 1 through 7, is a working date only and is not provided by ERB.

The Son Of Tarzan

DATE:   August 1, 1911

EVENT:   Carl Jenssen and Sven Malbihn came to the territory of Kovudoo in search of baboons for a European zoological garden. 

SOURCE:   "Every year had they come into the jungle to trade with the natives, or to rob them; to hunt and trap; or to guide other white men in the land they knew so well." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan. August 1, is a working date only and is not provided by ERB.

Newspaper Serial

DATE:  August 8, 1911

EVEN:  While searching for Jeanne/Meriem, Jack/Korak came upon the Swedes. He rescued a king baboon from their trap.

SOURCE:  "Korak slunk noiselessly around them to a point where he might get their scent as well as a better view of them they were the men who had fired upon him years before." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.

The Son Of Tarzan

DATE:  afternoon August 8, 1911

EVENT:  Jack/Korak travels to Kovudoo's village in search of Jeanne/Meriem.

SOURCE:  "The afternoon was almost spent when Korak arrived at the village of Kovudoo." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.

Russ Manning

DATE:  night August 8, 1911

EVENT:  Jack/Korak searches Kovudoo's village and attempts to free Jeanne/Meriem.

SOURCE: "But which one he could not know without closer investigation, and so he waited, with the dogged patience of a beast of prey, until night had fallen." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.

Neal Adams

DATE:   August 8, 1911

EVENT:  Once out of the village, Jack/Korak followed the trail of the baboons.

SOURCE:  "And out in the jungle, far away, Korak, covered with wounds, stiff with clotted blood, burning with rage and sorrow, swung back upon the trail of the great baboons." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.

Gold Key

DATE:  following day August 9, 1911

EVENT:  The willy old Chief Kovudoo dispatched a runner to the Shiek Amor ben Khatour's village but the runner happened upon the Swedes. The runner told them about Jeanne/Meriem and then Malbihn killed him. 

SOURCE:  "Meriem, again bound and under heavy guard in Kovudoo's own hut, saw the night pass and a new day come without bringing the momentarily looked-for return of Korak." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan..

CHAT:  ERB again informs us that Jack/Korak and Jeanne/Meriem had a brother-and-sister relationship and not a sexual relationship. "But she loved him as a little sister might love a big brother who was very good to her." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.

The Son Of Tarzan

DATE:  the next day August 10, 1911

EVENT:  The Swedes traveled to Kovudoo's village and traded or Jeanne/Meriem.

SOURCE:  "The next day the Swedes set out for Kovudoo's village bent on securing possession of the person of the white girl whom Kovudoo's runner had told them lay captive in the chief's village." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.

Newspaper Serial

DATE:   August 10, 1911 

EVENT:   For two days the king Baboon traveled to the hills to round up another tribe of kinsmen to help Jack/Korak. 

SOURCE:  "For two days the party raced through the savage country, passing out of the dense jungle into an open plain, and across this to timbered mountain slopes." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.

J. Allen St. John

DATE:  the next morning August 11, 1911

EVENT:  The Swedes left Kovudoo's village with Jeanne/Meriem.

SOURCE:  "Kovudoo stipulated but a single condition and that was that the Europeans were to leave his village and take the girl with them as early the next morning as they could get started." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan. 

    "Yet morning came, the morning meal was eaten, the camp broken and the disreputable safari of the Swedes was on the move northward with still no sign of the rescue the girl momentarily expected." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.

J. Allen St. John

DATE:   August 11, 1911, through August 13, 1911

EVENT:  The Swedes marched north all day.

SOURCE:  "All that day they marched, and the next and the next, nor did Korak even so much as show himself to the patient little waiter moving, silently and stately, beside her hard captors." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.

All Story Weekly

DATE:  mid-afternoon August 12, 1911

EVENT:  Jack/Korak and an army of three thousand baboons arrived at Kovudoo's village.

SOURCE:  And so they came, upon the second day, to the village of Kovudoo. ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.

    It was mid-afternoon. ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.

CHAT:  ERB again informs us that Ljack/Korak and Jeanne/Meriem had a brother-and-sister relationship and not a sexual relationship. "But she loved him as a little sister might love a big brother who was very good to her." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.

The Son Of Tarzan Movie

DATE:  following morning August 13, 1911 

Event:  Jack/Korak bid farewell to the baboons.

SOURCE:  "It was a sour and savage Korak who bade farewell to his baboon allies upon the following morning." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.

The Son Of Tarzan Movie

DATE:  August 13, 1912. through September 17, 1912

EVENT: Thinking Kovudoo's people had killed and eaten Jeanne/Meriem, Jack/Meriem roamed the jungle for a year.

SOURCE:  "For a long year he led his solitary, roaming life." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.

CHAT:   During that period Jack spent most of his time with Tantor, the elephant in between visits to the tribe of Akut and the baboons of the hill country. "Occasionally he fell in with Akut and his tribe, hunting with them for a day or two; or he might travel to the hill country where the baboons had come to accept him as a matter of course; but most of all was he with Tantor, the elephant - the great grey battle ship of the jungle - the super-dread-naught of his savage world." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan. 

The Son Of Tarzan Movie

DATE:   August 14, 1911

EVENT:  On the fourth day out of Kovudoo's village the Swedes stopped to rest.

SOURCE:  "It was on the fourth day that Meriem began definitely to give up hope." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.

Newspaper Serial

DATE:  August 14, 1911

Event:  Jenssen tried to stop Malbhn from raping Jeanne/Meriem. Malbihn shot Jenssen dead. Tarzan rescued Jeanne/Meriem from Malbihn.

SOURCE:  "Deliberately Malbhn put two more bullets into his friend's body at close range." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan. 

    "Again he seized her, and at the same instant the flaps of the tent opened silently and a tall white man stood in the aperture." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.

CHAT:  It is here we learn law has come to Tarzan's Kenyan home. "You deserve death, but I am not the law." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan. 

    I shall let you go this time; but should you ever return I shall take the law into my own hands." ERB-The Son Of Taran.

    "I wish that I might, but a new law is come into this part of the jungle. It is not as it was in the old days, Muviri," replied the master. ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.

Newspaper Serial

DATE:  August 19, 1911

EVENT:  On the fifth day after rescuing Jeanne, Tarzan, and the group reached the Greystoke African farm.

SOURCE:  "On the fifth day they came suddenly upon a great plain and from the edge of the forest the girl saw in the distance fenced fields and many buildings." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.

    When Jeanne turned sixteen ERB tells us she has been at the Greystoke farm for one year. "She had ridden much during her year with Bwana and My Dear." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.

CHAT:  At this time, Jane is around thirty-eight years old, but Jeanne described her as being beautiful. "Meriem saw that the woman was beautiful." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.

Newspaper Serial

DATE:  August 19, 1911, through September 19, 1912

EVENT:  Jeanne identified herself to the Greystoke's by the only name she knew, Meriem. The rescued girl spent months at the Greystoke farm.

SOURCE:  "He would go himself, he assured her, as soon as he could find the time, and at last Meriem consented to abide by his wishes; but it was months before she ceased to mourn almost hourly for her Korak." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.

Robert Abbett

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.