1912 August The Son Of Tarzan

DATE:   August 20, 1912                                                                                              

EVENT:  While Tarzan and the English guest were out hunting Malbihn witnessed Jeanne/Meriem rescue a goat from Numa, the lion.

SOURCE:  "So Meriem remained behind and spent her days either with My Dear upon the shaded verandah, or riding her favorite pony across the plains or to the forest edge." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan. August 20 is a working date only and is not provided by ERB.

Korak

DATE:  August 20, 1912

EVENT:  After saving the goat, Jeanne/Meriem came upon Jack/Korak's baboon tribe and made friends with them.

SOURCE:  "She was singing blithely; but her song came to a sudden stop when she came within sight of the tree, for there, disporting themselves with glee and pulling and hauling upon her belongings, were a number of baboons." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan. 

CHAT:  When the Hon. Morison Baynes asked Meriem if Korak was her husband she replied, "I am to young to have a husband." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan. 

    Remember, Jeanne has just turned sixteen at this time. Also, Hon. Morison was from the House of Baynes. "Morison was one that was not at all calculated to detract from the glory of the house of Baynes, or that of its representative." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan. August 20, 1912, is a working date and is not provided by ERB.

Baboon

DATE:  several days later in the evening of August 27, 1912 

EVENT:   Hon. Morison tells Jeanne/Meriem he loves her.

SOURCE:  "For several days the Hon. Morison made no appreciable progress toward the consummation of his scheme." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan. 

    "He was sitting with Meriem upon the verandah one evening after the others had retired." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.

CHAT:  Again, the just-turned-sixteen-year-old Jeanne/Meriem informs us she is too young to be married. "I am to young to marry yet, and I am not sure that I would be happy in London or Paris - they rather frighten me." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.

Newspaper Serial

 

DATE:  the following day August 28, 1912

EVENT:  A man named Mr. Hanson, of Scandinavian origin, who claimed to be lost rode into the Greystoke farm. Tarzan gave him permission to camp on his property for a couple of weeks.

SOURCE:  "Meriem and Bwana were sitting on the verandah together the following day when a horseman appeared in the distance riding across the plain toward the bungalow, Bwana shaded his eyes with his hand and gazed out toward the oncoming rider." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.

CHAT:  While addressing Mr. Hanson Tarzan informs us. "No, there are none to the south of us for many miles," replied Bwana. "Since Kovudoo deserted his country I rather doubt that one could find a native in that direction under two or three hundred miles." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.

Korak

DATE:  August 28, 1912, through September 18, 1912

EVENT:  During his stay, Hanson accompanied Tarzan's guests on several hunting trips.

SOURCE: "He accompanied the men on several hunting trips where they found him perfectly at home and well versed in all the finer points of big game hunting." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.

CHAT:  It is here we learn Tarzan's farm foreman is white. "Of an evening he often spent much time with the white foreman of the big farm, evidently finding in the society of this rougher man more common interests than the cultured guests of Bwana possessed for him." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan. 

    Hanson also later informs us the white foreman's name is, Jervis. "I'd been sitting in the garden," replied the trader, "after leaving Jervis' quarters." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.

Kenya

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.