Date: July 31, 1911
Event: Jack/Korak raids Kovudoo's village.
Source: "After Jack/Korak had left the village of the blacks following his last thieving expedition, the screams of his victim and those of the other women and children had brought the warriors in from the forest and the river." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.
Chat: This was a native village some distance away from Akut's tribe, not the village the ape-man regularly robbed. "A distant village of blacks had furnished her with a mantle of fur and feathers, with copper ornaments, and weapons, for Korak would not permit her to go unarmed, or unversed in the use of weapons he stole for her." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.
Chat: This was a native village some distance away from Akut's tribe, not the village the ape-man regularly robbed. "A distant village of blacks had furnished her with a mantle of fur and feathers, with copper ornaments, and weapons, for Korak would not permit her to go unarmed, or unversed in the use of weapons he stole for her." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.
"Great was the excitement and hot was the rage of the men when they learned that the white devil had again entered their homes, frightened their women and stolen arrows and ornaments and food." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.
Date: July 31, 1911
Event: Jeanne/Meriem is captured by a Mangani king but Jack/Korak rescues her and kills her captor.
Source: "Then he stooped and lifting the girl to his shoulder waddled off through the jungle." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.
Chat: It is here that ERB informs us that for the first time, Jack/Korak realized he was in love with Jeanne/Meriem. "He knew then that little Meriem was his world - his sun, his moon, his stars - with her going had gone all light and warmth and happiness." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.
Date: July 31, 1911
Event: Jeanne/Meriem is captured by a Mangani king but Jack/Korak rescues her and kills her captor.
Source: "Then he stooped and lifting the girl to his shoulder waddled off through the jungle." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.
Chat: It is here that ERB informs us that for the first time, Jack/Korak realized he was in love with Jeanne/Meriem. "He knew then that little Meriem was his world - his sun, his moon, his stars - with her going had gone all light and warmth and happiness." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.
"Now, indeed, was he looking upon her through new eyes - the eyes of a man looking upon a maid." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.
Date: July 31, 1911
Event: Jack/Korak defeats a Mangani challenger and becomes king. Jack/Korak gives the kingship to Akut.
Source: "There is your king." he said. ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.
Date: July 31, 1911
Event: Akut goes to live with the Mangani. Jack/Korak and Jeanne/Meriem plan to live away from the tribe, but close by.
Source: "We will live near you," he said, at last. ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.
Date: July 31, 1911
Event: Jack/Korak defeats a Mangani challenger and becomes king. Jack/Korak gives the kingship to Akut.
Source: "There is your king." he said. ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.
Date: July 31, 1911
Event: Akut goes to live with the Mangani. Jack/Korak and Jeanne/Meriem plan to live away from the tribe, but close by.
Source: "We will live near you," he said, at last. ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.
"When you change your hunting ground we will change ours, Meriem and I, and so remain near you; but we shall not dwell among you." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.
Date: July 31, 1911
Event: For hours Kovudoo and his warriors trailed Jack/Korak. They witnessed the second battle the white savage had with the Mangani.
Source: "Kovudoo and his men came upon Korak, Akut, and Meriem after the killing of the king ape, the noise of the combat having led them at last straight to their quarry." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.
Date: July 31, 1911
Event: Kovudoo and his warriors kidnap Jeanne/Meriem.
Date: July 31, 1911
Event: For hours Kovudoo and his warriors trailed Jack/Korak. They witnessed the second battle the white savage had with the Mangani.
Source: "Kovudoo and his men came upon Korak, Akut, and Meriem after the killing of the king ape, the noise of the combat having led them at last straight to their quarry." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.
Date: July 31, 1911
Event: Kovudoo and his warriors kidnap Jeanne/Meriem.
Source: "Kovudoo, realizing the danger of coming to close quarters with these mighty ape-men, seized Meriem and called upon his warriors to retreat." ERB-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.
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.
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.
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.
Date: August 8, 1911
Event: While searching for Jeanne/Meriem, Jack/Korak came upon the Swedes. He rescued a king baboon from their trap.
Date: August 8, 1911
Event: 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..
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Date: the next day August 10, 1911
Event: The Swedes traveled to Kovudoo's village and traded for 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.
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.
Date: the next day August 10, 1911
Event: The Swedes traveled to Kovudoo's village and traded for 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Date: mid-afternoon August 12, 1911
Event: Jack/Korak and an army of three thousand baboons arrived at Kovudoo's village.
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.
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.
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.
Source: "It was a sour and savage Korak who bade farewell to his baboon allies upon the following morning." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.
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.
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.
Source: "It was on the fourth day that Meriem began definitely to give up hope." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Date: September 19, 1911
Event: The Wazari headman returned from Kovudoo's deserted village.
Source: "A month passed before the head man returned - a month that had transformed the savage, half-naked little tarmangani into a daintily frocked girl of at least outward civilization." 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.
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.
Date: September 19, 1911
Event: The Wazari headman returned from Kovudoo's deserted village.
Source: "A month passed before the head man returned - a month that had transformed the savage, half-naked little tarmangani into a daintily frocked girl of at least outward civilization." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
James Michael Moody is a lifelong fan and collector of Edger Rice Burroughs. Moody has contributed over two hundred articles to various ERB-related fanzines over forty-five years. 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 is also the author of 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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