David Arthur Adams - I would like to make a quick little comment about Chris Ellsbury's Tarzan's cabin door note. You can not accurately decipher the cabin door note unless you also read Jungle Tales Of Tarzan which occurs just before that note writing. The truth is, the actual letter printed in Tarzan Of The Apes is by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the author, and not by Tarzan. How do I know?
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| ERB-APA #49 |
In the language of the Mangani Tar-zan means, "White-skin." Although the ape boy's name is White-skin he does not write White-skin in English letters. In Jungle Tales Of Tarzan, we learn the ape boy has deduced his written name as He-boy because of pictures in his primers. Also from that same passage, we discover that instead of actually writing He-boy, Tarzan actually wrote his name as Bumudomutumuro. Therefore, if anyone has a letter from Tarzan, age twenty and under, the letter will be signed Bumudomutumuro of the Apes, not Tarzan of the Apes, White-skin of the Apes, or He-boy of the Apes.
Gordon Griffith
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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