1895 April The Return Of Tarzan

Date:  April 21, 1895
Event:  Tarzan and the Waziri reach the mountains where Opar lay.
Source:  "For days they marched up one river, across a low divide; down another river; up a third, until at the end of the twenty-fifth day they camped upon a mountainside, from the summit of which they hoped to catch their first view of the marvelous city of treasure." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

Richard Hescox

Date:  early morning April 22, 1895
Event:  Tarzan and the Waziri scaled the cliffs that surround Opar.
Source:  "Early the next morning they were climbing the almost perpendicular crags which formed the last,  but greatest, natural barrier between them and their destination." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

Russ Manning

Date:  nearly noon April 22, 1895
Event:  Tarzan and the Waziri reach the top of the cliffs and view Opar from a distance.
Source:  "It was nearly noon before Tarzan, who headed the thin line of climbing warriors, scrambled over the top of the last cliff and stood upon the little flat table-land of the mountaintop." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

Autio Book

Date:  April 22, 1895
Event:  After an hour's rest Tarzan and the Waziri advance upon Opar.
Source:  "For an hour the little expedition rested upon the mountaintop, and then Tarzan led them down into the valley below." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

C. Edmund Monroe

Date:  still light April 22, 1895
Event:  Tarzan and the Waziri reach the outer wall of Opar.
Source:  "Once in the valley their progress was rapid. so that it was still light when they halted before the towering walls of the ancient city." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

Russ Manning

Date:  night April 22, 1895
Event:  Tarzan and the Waziri camp outside the city and hear weird sounds.
Source:  "That night they camped outside the city." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

Russ Manning

Date:  morning April 23, 1895
Event:  Tarzan and the Waziri enter Opar:
Source:  "In the morning the effects of it were still visible in the fearful, sidelong glances that the Waziri continually cast at the massive and forbidding structure which loomed above them." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

Russ Manning

Date:  noon April 23, 1895
Event:  Tarzan is captured by the Oparians.
Source:  "For a moment every eye was bent upon the noonday sun, and then in unison the people in the galleries and those in the court below took up the refrain of a low, weird chant." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

Joe Kubert

Date:  shortly after noon April 24, 1895
Event:  Tarzan kills Tha and saves La.  She hides the ape-man until dark.
Source:  "I will return after it is dark." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

Don Marquez

Date:  night April 24, 1895
Event:  La returns for Tarzan while fifty males go into the jungle after his trail.
Source:  "It was quite dark before La, the high priestess, returned to the Chamber of the Dead with food and drink for Tarzan." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

Nicholas Elias

Date:  night April 24, 1895
Event:  La leads Tarzan to another chamber and explains she will return for him the following night,  Instead the ape-man escapes.
Source:  "You will be safe here until tomorrow night," she said. ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

John Totleben

Date:  night April 24, 1895
Event:  Tarzan discovers a secret passage out of Opar.
Source:  "A mile away lay the ruined city of Opar, its domes and turrets bathed in the soft light of the equatorial moon." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

Russ Manning

Date:  night April 24, 1895

Event:  Tarzan finds the treasure chamber of Opar.

Source:  Carefully feeling about, he found himself within a large chamber, along the walls of which, and down the length of the floor, were piled many tiers of metal ingots of an odd though uniform shape. To his groping hands they felt not like double-headed bootjacks. The ingots were quite heavy, and but for the enormous number of them he would have been positive that they were gold; but the thought of the fabulous wealth these thousands of pounds of metal would have represented were they in reality gold, almost convinced him that they must be of some baser metal. ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

John Buscema

Date:  sunrise April 25, 1895

Event:  Tarzan reunites with the Waziri. The ape-man discovers the Oparians looking for him. They unknowingly passed by and continued towards the coast.

Source:  "The sun was just rising as he gained the summit of the flat mountain at the valley's western boundary." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan,

Russ Manning

Date:  dusk April 25, 1895

Event:  Tarzan and the Waziri return to Opar.

Source:  "When Tarzan had related his adventures and told them of the yellow metal he had found, not one demurred when he outlined a plan to return by night and bring away what they could carry of the vast treasure; and so it was that as dusk fell across the desolate valley of Opar fifty ebon warriors trailed at a smart trot over the dry and dusty ground toward the giant boulder that loomed before the city."  ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

Russ Manning

Date:  midnight April 25, 1895

Event:  Tarzan and the Waziri robbed the treasure from Opar and exited.

Source:  "By midnight the entire party stood once more at the foot of the bowlder." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

Russ Manning

Date:  mid-forenoon April 26, 1895

Event:  Tarzan and the Waziri reach the summit of the cliffs.

Source:  "but with their heavy loads it was mid-forenoon ere they reached the summit of the cliffs."  ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

Joe Kubert

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.

1895 March The Return Of Tarzan

Date:  Monday, March 2, 1895
Event:  The Tennington yacht sales from Cape Town.
Source:  "And so it was settled that they should sail the following Monday."  ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

Lady Alice

Date:  March 4, 1895
Event:  Hazel showed Jane a picture of John Caldwell and explained he had been lost at sea upon their recent voyage.  Jane recognized him as Tarzan.
Source:  Two days out the girls were sitting in Hazel's cabin, looking at some prints she had finished in Cape Town."  ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

Russ Manning

Date:  March 4, 1895
Event:  The Lady Alice sunk and Jane, William Cecil Clayton, Monsieur Thuran (Nickolas Rokoff) and three sailors end up in a lifeboat together.
Source:  "two days out", ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

J. Allen St. John

Date:  morning March 5, 1895
Event:  Jane and her boat find they have been separated from the others.
Source:  "Jane Porter had been the first of those in the lifeboat to awaken the morning after the wreck of the Lady Alice."  ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

J. Allen St. John

Date:  March 8, 1895
Event:  The occupants of the other three boats from the Lady Alice land.
Source:  "While farther up the coast, a few miles beyond the cabin, in crude but well-built shelters, lived a little party of eighteen souls - the occupants of the three boats from the Lady Alice from which Clayton's boat had become separated."  ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.  "Over a smooth sea they had rowed to the mainland in less than three days."  ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

Lady Alice

Date:  March 12, 1895
Event:  The first sailor dies aboard Jane's boat.
Source:  "Just a week from the day the Lady Alice went down the sailor died horribly in frightful convulsions."  ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

Lady Alice

Date:  night March 12, 1895
Event:  Sailor Wilson attacks William Cecil Clayton, then leaps overboard the lifeboat.
Source:  "The moon had risen, and as he opened his startled eyes he saw Wilson creeping stealthily toward him, his mouth open and his swollen tongue hanging out."  ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

Lady Alice

Date:  the following morning, March 13, 1895
Event:  Monsieur Thuran (Nickolas Rokoff), William Cecil Clayton and Spider draw franc coins to see who is food.
Source:  "The result of his cogitation developed the following morning in a proposition he made to Spider and Clayton."  ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.  "The oldest date is eighteen-seventy-five, and there is only one of that year."  ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.  "The 1875 piece was a  hair thinner than the other coins, but neither Clayton nor Spider could have detected it without the aid of a micrometer.  When he brought forth his hand it contained an 1888 franc piece." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

Lady Alice

Date:  March 20, 1895

Event:  Jane had not spoken in three days and Clayton and Monsieur Thuran (Nickolas Rokoff) draw coins again.
Source:  "The strain had exhausted those who remained to such an extent that they lay half unconscious for the balance of the day, nor was the subject referred to again for several days."  ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

Russ Manning

Date:  March 20, 1895
Event:  The night Tarzan became chief of the Waziri Jane and company were floating in the Atlantic.
Source:  "The very night that Tarzan of the Apes became chief of the Waziri, the woman he loved lay dying in a tiny boat two hundred miles west of him upon the Atlantic." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.
Chat:  From this provided description, we now know the Waziri village is approximately two hundred miles east of the Greystoke cabin.

Zdenek Burian

Date:  March 20, 1895, through March 27, 1895
Event:  Tarzan and his Waziri warriors escort the Manyuema slavers to the northern boundary of Waziri.
Source:  "The week following the induction of Tarzan into the kingship of the Waziri was occupied in escorting the Manyuema of the Arab raiders to the northern boundary of Waziri in accordance with the promise which Tarzan had made them."  ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

J. Allen St. John

Date:  March 21, 1895
Event:  William Cecil Clayton and Jane are awakened by rain and land is sighted.
Source:  "With a start, he gained consciousness to find himself wet through by torrents of rain that were falling upon his body and his upturned face.  A tropical shower was beating down upon them."  ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.
Chat:  If you will notice ERB, the author, tells us William Cecil Clayton and Jane are awakened by rain.  The rainy season in Portuguese Angola is between October thru May.  Since Jane and William Cecil Clayton's lifeboat events occurred in March, my 1872 Greystoke timeline passes ERB, the author's hidden test.

The Return Of Tarzan

Date:  March 21, 1895
Event:  After making shore and eating fruit the three slept until dark.
Source:  "Here, thoroughly exhausted, they threw themselves down to rest, sleeping until dark."  ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

C. Edmund Monroe

Date:  March 21, 1895, through April 21, 1895
Event:  For a month Jane, William Cecil Clayton, and Monsieur Thuran (Nickolas Rokoff) lived on the beach.
Source:  "For a month they lived upon the beach in comparative safety."  ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

The Return Of Tarzan

Date:  March 27, 1895
Event:  Tarzan and the Waziri began making preparations to visit Opar.
Source:  "Almost immediately upon his return to the village Tarzan commenced making preparations for leading an expedition in search of the ruined city of gold which old Waziri had described to him."  ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

Richard Powers

Date:  March 28, 1895
Event:  Tarzan and the Waziri began their trek to Opar.The Return Of Tarzan
Source:  "So one glorious tropical morning Waziri, chief of the Waziri, set out at the head of fifty clean-limbed ebon warriors in quest of adventure and of riches."  ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

Russ Manning

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.

1895 February The Return Of Tarzan

Date: the morning of February 1, 1895
Event:  Kador ben Saden's men take Tarzan back to Bou Saada.
Source:  "While they were mounting in the douar of Kadour  ben Saden the morning of their departure, the girl came to bid farewell to Tarzan." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

Bou Saada

Date:  after dark February 1, 1895
Event:  Tarzan arrives at Bou Saada and receives orders to go to Cape Town immediately.
Source:  "Thus, making his entrance after dark, as he did, he was not seen by anyone who knew him, and reached the inn unobserved." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan. "One was an order from  his superior to lay off on his present work, and hasten to Cape Town by the first steamer he could get." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

Bou Saada

Date:  the night of February 1, 1895
Event:  Tarzan makes arrangements to leave Bou Saada for Cape Town. The ape-man then finds Nickolas Rockoff and takes the secret papers from the Russian he had just obtained from Lieutenant Gernois.
Source:  "It was for there he headed." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

Bou Saada

Date:  shortly before eight o'clock on the morning of February 2, 1895
Event:  Tarzan rode north to Bouira and Algiers.
Source:  "The next morning Tarzan rode north on his way to Bouira and Algiers." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan. "He shot himself about eight o'clock this morning." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

Bouira, Algeria

Date:  the evening of February 2, 1895
Event:  Tarzan arrives at Sidi Aissa and discovers Lieutenant Gernois has killed himself.
Source:  "At Sidi Aissa Tarzan met a French officer with whom he had become acquainted on the occasion of his recent sojourn in the town." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan. "You left Bou Saada early," ERB-The Return Of Tarzan. "He shot himself about eight o'clock this morning."  ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

Sidi Aissa, Algeria

Date:  February 4, 1895
Event:  Tarzan arrives in Algiers.
Source:  "Two days after Tarzan reached Algiers." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

Algiers, Algeria

Date:  February 6, 1895
Event:  Tarzan remains in Algiers for two days while waiting for his ship to Cape Town.
Source:  "There he found that he would have a two day's wait before he could catch a ship bound for Cape Town." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

Algiers, Algeria

Date:  February 6, 1895
Event:  Tarzan boards a ship for Cape Town using the name John Caldwell of London.
Source:  "There he found that he would have a two day's wait before he could catch a ship bound for Cape Town." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

Algiers, Algeria

Date:  the night of February 6, 1895
Event:  Tarzan meets Hazel Strong.
Source:  "At dinner that night Tarzan set next to a young woman whose place was at the captain's left." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

Al Anderson

Date:  February 7, 1895
Event:  Lord Tennington's yacht and Tarzan's English steamer passed in the Strait of Gibraltar.
Source:  "And so it happened that on a certain day two vessels passed in the Strait of Gibraltar." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan. "This vessel flies the English flag." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.
Chat:  At first glance one assumes that Edgar Rice Burroughs, the author, offers very little information to date this event, but using simple logic he does. According to Alan Hanson's A Chrono-log of ERB'S Tarzan Series, the jungle lord's ocean voyage from Algiers to Cape Town takes two weeks. The passing of the ships passing at the Strait of Gibraltar occurs shortly after the ape-mans' departure from Algiers, so, therefore, we know the ships passing is occurring very early in the voyage.
     Although exact dates can't be provided for this and the following five events all occur within a ten-day time period according to Alan Hanson's A Chrono-log of ERB'S Tarzan Series.  Using this information we have provided working dates that do not oppose Edgar Rice Burroughs, the authors, provided information.

Lady Alice

Date:  February 7, 1895
Event:  As the yacht and steamer passed Tarzan was talking to Hazel Strong, Jane's longtime friend, and discovered she had yet to marry Clayton. The ape-man also learned Jane was in love with him instead of his cousin William Cecil.
Source:  "When the yacht had passed the man resumed the conversation that her appearance had broken off." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

C. Edmund Monroe

Date:  February 8 through 11, 1895  
Event:  The next few days passed uneventfully aboard the passenger steamer.
Source:  "The next few days passed uneventfully." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

Rafael Palacious

Date:  February 12, 1895
Event:  Tarzan, still going by his spy name, John Caldwell, meets Nickolas Rokoff going by the name of Monsieur Thuran,
Source:  "One day Tarzan found Miss Strong in conversation with a stranger, a man he had not seen on board before." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.
Chat:  The interesting thing here is that Tarzan is looking at Nickolas Rockoff who he had just seen less than two weeks ago in Bou Saada, Algeria, and does not recognize him either by sight or smell. Without actually saying it  Edgar Rice Burroughs, the author, is clearly indicating that Nickolas Rokoff had altered his appearance. Why didn't the ape-man smell the Russian's scent? As a spy, Nickolas Rokoff often played the part of an aristocrat. Therefore, the Russian spy would have used the manly perfumes of the day. Being a traveler he most likely owned more than one brand and scent. The changing of the perfumes would keep the jungle lord's keen sense off balance.

Robert Abbit

Date:  February 17, 1895
Event:  Days later Nickolas Rockoff searched Tarzan's room for secret papers.
Source:  "He did not see the man again for days." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

Barclay Shaw

Date:  the night of February 17, 1895
Event:  That night Tarzan is thrown overboard.
Source:  "After Miss Strong had gone below that night Tarzan stood leaning over the rail looking far out to sea." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.
Chat:  Alan Hanson in his A Chrono-log Of ERB's Tarzan Series suggests Tarzan's trip from Algiers to Cape Town takes right at two weeks. Since I have no way of researching the ship's travel time so I will depend on Alan's research for working dates. According to William Cecil Clayton's description in Tarzan Of The Apes,10" degrees, South Latitude is the location of John and Alice Clayton's cabin in Portuguese Angola. By chance, this is also the exact location where Tarzan was thrown overboard by Nickolas Rokoff and Alexis Paulvitch in The Return Of Tarzan.

Russ Manning

Date:  the night of February 17, 1895
Event:  After swimming briefly, Tarzan noticed his secret papers were gone.
Source:  "Now he knew that something more than revenge had prompted Rockoff to pitch him overboard - the Russian had managed to obtain possession of the papers Tarzan had wrested from him at Bou Saada." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

Russ Manning

Date:  near dawn February 18, 1895
Event:  Near dawn, Tarzan happened upon the wrecked bottom of a derelict. There he slept.
Source:  "The first faint evidence of dawn was paling the stars ahead of him when the dim outlines of a low-lying black mass loomed up directly in his track. ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

Walpole Champney

Date:  around forenoon February 18, 1895
Event:  Tarzan awakes and discovers a little boat and a distant shoreline.
Source:  "The heat of the sun awoke him early in the forenoon." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

Joe Kubert

Date:  late afternoon February 18, 1895
Event:  By late in the afternoon Tarzan was close enough to shore to discover he was at his birthplace.
Source:  "It was late in the afternoon by the time he came close enough to distinguish objects on land, or to make out the contour of the shoreline." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

Daryl Mandryk

Date:  February 18, 1895
Event:  At age twenty-two, Tarzan enters the cabin he had left nearly two years before.
Source:  "Nothing had been disturbed; there were the table, the bed, and the little crib built by his father - the shelves and cupboards just as they had stood for over twenty-three years - just as he had left them nearly two years before.." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

Harry Wooley

Date:  growing dark February 18, 1895
Event:  Tarzan kills Horta, the boar.
Source:  "While it was yet light Tarzan came to a drinking place by the side of a jungle river.  On a low branch, he squatted above the trail.  For an hour he waited. It was growing dark."  ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

Harry Wooley

Date:  growing dark February 18, 1895
Event:  Jane Porter and William Cecil Clayton eat dinner upon the Lady Alice in the Indian Ocean.
Source:  "He wiped his bloody hands on a bunch of leaves, slung the remains of his kill across his shoulder, and swung off through the middle terrace of the forest toward his cabin, and at the same instant Jane Porter and William Cecil Clayton arose from a sumptuous dinner upon the Lady Alice, thousands of miles to the east, in the Indian Ocean." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

Ron Ely

Date:  following forenoon February 19, 1895
Event:  Tarzan swam in the sea, ate, then went in search of weapons.
Source:  "Tarzan slept late into the following forenoon, for he had been very tired from the labors and extortion of the long night and day upon the ocean, and the jungle jaunt that had brought into play muscles that he had scarce used for nearly two years.." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.
Chat:  This is the second passage in The Return Of Tarzan that informs us Tarzan has been gone from Portuguese Angola for nearly two years.

J. Allen St. John

Date:  that night February 19, 1895
Event:  Tarzan discovered Mbonga's village was no longer, so he went inland in search of another village. That night he slept in the jungle.
Source:  "That night he slept far inland from his cabin, securely wedged into the crotch of a giant tree, swaying a hundred feet above the ground." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.
Chat:  Edgar Rice Burroughs the author, never mentions the fate of Tibo, or his mother Momaya.  All we know is that the two never again appear in the Tarzan series.

John Coleman Burroughs

Date:  early the next morning February 20, 1895
Event:  Tarzan continued inland following the course of the stream.
Source:  "Early the next morning he resumed his journey, always following the course of the stream." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

The Return Of Tarzan

Date:  February 20, 1895
Event:  Hazel Strong, along with Nickolas Rokoff, arrives at Cape Town.
Source:  "Monsieur Thuran became a frequent visitor at the home of Hazel Strong's uncle in Cape Town." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.
Chat: This "fourteen-day theory" of the ship traveling from Algiers to Cape Town are working dates only and are derived from A Chrono-log Of ERB's Tarzan Series, by Alan Hanson.  Another researched theory, within reason, could be used and the calendar dates shifted somewhat and still be in agreement with Edgar Rice Burroughs's described information.
Chat:  This is the first of two passages in The Return Of Tarzan that directly implies the events of The Return Of Tarzan cover a time span of two years.

Neal Adams

Date:  February 21, 1895
Event:  Jane Porter and Hazel Strong run into each other at Cape Town.
Source:  "The next day Hazel Strong enjoyed one of the happiest surprises of her life - she ran face to face upon Jane Porter as she was coming out of a  jeweler's shop." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan. "By the time mutual explanations had been made Hazel knew that Lord Tennington's yacht had put in at Cape Town for at least a week's stay and at the end of that time was to continue on her voyage - this time up the West Coast - and so back to England."  ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

The Return Of Tarzan

Date:  February 23, 1895
Event:  After three days of Traveling Tarzan came to a part of the jungle he had never been to before.
Source:  "For three days he continued his quest, until he had come to a part of the jungle in which he had never before been." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

The Return Of Tarzan

Date:  Monday, February 23, 1895

Event:  Hazel Strong's mother was summoned back to Baltimore by her attorneys. Lord Tennington offered to let Mrs. Strong, Hazel, and Monsieur Thuran (Nickolas Rokoff), travel as far as England on his yacht.
Source:  "Mrs. Strong had been telling them how much she had enjoyed her visit at Cape Town, and that she regretted that a letter just received from her attorneys in Baltimore had necessitated her cutting her visit shorter than they had intended." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan. "It's to take Mrs. Strong and Miss Strong, and Thuran too, if he will come, as far as England with us on the yacht." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

The Return Of Tarzan

Date:  February 24, 1895
Event:  Tarzan rescues Busuli, Chief of the Waziri.
Source:  "On the morning of the fourth day his nostrils were suddenly surprised by a faint new scent." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

Edward Mortleman

Date:  the morning of February 24, 1895
Event:  Monsieur Thuran (Nickolas Rokoff), befriends Hazel Strong the same instant Tarzan rescues Busuli, Chief of the Waziri.
Source:  "And if he could have seen Rokoff at that moment as he assiduously bent every endeavor to the pleasant task of ingratiating himself into the affections of the beautiful Miss Strong, he would have longed more than ever to mete out to the man the fate he deserved."  ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

The Return Of Tarzan

Date:  night February 24, 1895
Event:  The Waziri natives have a wild orgy in Tarzan's honor.
Source:  "Tarzan's first night with the savages was devoted to a wild orgy in his honor." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.
Chat:  Here we learn the Waziri are not your normal West Coast natives. "As the warriors danced in the firelight, Tarzan was again impressed by the symmetry of their figures and the regularity of their features - the flat noses and thick lips of the typical West Coast savage were entirely missing." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan. "Busuli, the warrior whom he had stalked to the village, told him  many of the tribal legends - how, many years before, his people had come many long marches from the north; how once they had been a great  and powerful tribe; and how the slave raiders had wrought such havoc among them with their death-dealing guns that they had been reduced to a mere remnant of their former numbers and power." ERB-The Return Of Tarzan.

The Return Of Tarzan

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.