1907 June The Son Of Tarzan

DATE:  June 20, 1907                                                                                                              EVENT:  The Marjorie W. arrives in England.                                                                              SOURCE:  "And so at length, the Marjorie W. came to England, and there the officers and the scientists, filled with compassion for the pitiful wreck of a man they had rescued from the jungles, furnished Paulvitch with funds and bid him and his Ajax/Akut, Godspeed." ERB-The  Son Of Tarzan.                                                                                                                            CHAT:  Marjorie W's sailing time? Unfortunately, I couldn't find a specific historical record detailing the exact sea travel time from Luanda, Portuguese Angola to Dover, England in 1907. However, we can estimate the journey based on the transportation methods and conditions of the era.

• The most likely mode of transportation would have been steamship. These vessels were significantly faster and more reliable than sailing ships, but the journey still took weeks.
• The Atlantic Ocean could be unpredictable, especially in certain seasons. Storms, rough seas, port stops, and mechanical issues could delay the journey.

Given the distances involved and the transportation methods of the time, a reasonable estimate for the journey from Luanda, Portuguese Angola, to Dover, England in 1907 would be between four to six weeks. For a working date, I used six weeks which is conservative. That allows for some extra time adjustment should it be needed.   

The Son Of Tarzan

DATE:  June 20, 1907

EVENT:  Upon arrival in England Paulvitch took Akut/Ajax, to England to a certain famous animal trainer.

SOURCE:  "In London Paulvitch went directly with his prize to a certain famous animal trainer." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.

Frank Frazetta

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.

1907 April The Son Of Tarzan

DATE:  April 18, 1907, through November 5, 1907

EVENT:  Carl Jenseen, and Sven Malbihn form a band of one hundred or more thieves and plunder the jungles just south of the Sahara.

SOURCE:  "The European governments in whose possessions they worked had long sought them; but, working their way slowly out of the north they had learned many things in the no-man's-land south of the Sahara which gave them immunity from capture through every avenue of escape that were unknown to those who pursued them." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.

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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.

1907 March The Son Of Tarzan

DATE:  March 18, 1907                                                                                                                EVENT:  A long boat of the Majorie W., while floating down the broad Ugambi, discovered Alexis Paulvitich, still in his thirties, on the river bank.                                                                  SOURCE:  "Once on board the Majorie W. the stranger told his rescuers a pitiful tale of privation, hardships, and torture, extending over a period of ten years." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan. 

    "It had been ten years since the Russian had escaped the fate of his friend, the arch-fiend Rokoff, and not once, but many times during those ten years had Paulvitich cursed the fate that had given to Nicholas Rokoff's death and immunity from suffering while it had meted to him the hideous terrors of an existence infinitely worse than the death that persistently refused to claim him." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.

    "Though still in his thirties, Alexis Paulvitch could easily have passed for eighty." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.  

Tarzan's Africa

DATE:  March 21, 1907

EVENT:  After rescuing Paulvitch the Majorie W., which had been chartered by scientists, left the African coast and anchored at Jungle Island. There Paulvitch found the ape Akut, who he renamed Ajax.

SOURCE:  In The Beasts Of Tarzan chapter two Rokoff marooned Tarzan on Jungle Island and in chapter three it took the Kincaid three days to reach the coast. I used those same three days for the return journey.

The Son 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.

1906 August The Son Of Tarzan

DATE:  August 18, 1906                                                                                                              EVENT: Jeanne Jacot/ Meriem, now ten years old, lives in a native village. A black woman named Malbunu looks after her for her new father, Sheik Amor ben Khatour.                              SOURCE:  "Playing before one of the Arab tents was a little girl of ten - a black-haired, black-eyed little girl who, with her nut-brown skin and graceful carriage looked every inch a daughter of the desert." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.                                                                           

    "There was, for example, the old black hag who looked after her, Mabunu - toothless, filthy and ill tempered." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.                                                                              

CHAT: ERB offers quite a bit of information about this village. "In the heart of the jungle, 

hidden away upon the banks of a small unexplored tributary of a large river that empties into the Atlantic not so far from the equator, lay a small, heavily palisaded village. Twenty palm-thatched, beehive huts sheltered its black population, while a half-dozen goat skin tents in the center of the clearing housed the score of Arabs who found shelter here while, by trading and raiding, they collected the cargoes which their ships of the desert bore northward twice each year to the market at Timbuktu." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.

The Son 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.

1904 August The Son Of Tarzan

DATE:  August 18, 1904

EVENT:  A kindly disposed slave gave Jeanne, whom she now called Meriem, a doll, which she named Geeka.

SOURCE:  "Her little fingers were busily engaged in fashioning a skirt of grasses for a much-disheveled doll which a kindly disposed slave had made for her a year or two before." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.

CHAT:  ERB states "a year or two" you pick. Any date in between would agree with ERB's presented information. I chose a conservative "two" as a working date. The kindly disposed slave who made Meriem's doll was named Geeka. "When my brother and I were slaves in the village of the Sheik my brother made that thing for the Sheik's little daughter - yet she played with it always and called it after my brother, whose name is Geeka." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.

J. Allen St. John

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.

1903 August The Son Of Tarzan

DATE:  August 18, 1903  

EVENT:  Captain Armand Jocot's daughter, the seventy-year-old, Jeanne Jacot, mysteriously disappears.

SOURCE:  "A month later little Jeanne Jacot, the seven-year-old daughter of Captain Armand Jacot, mysteriously disappeared." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.

J. Allen St. John

DATE:  August 18, 1903 through August 18, 1906

EVENT:  Two Swedes, Carl Jenssen, and Sven Malbihn, had searched the southern Sahara for three years without any luck trying to find the missing girl. Growing desperate they decided to get back into ivory poaching.

SOURCE:  "The two Swedes, Carl Jenssen and Sven Malbihn, after three years of following false leads at last gave up the search far to the south of the Sahara to return their attention to the more profitable business of ivory poaching." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.

Carl Jenssen & Sven Malbihn

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.

1903 June The Son Of Tarzan

DATE:  June 11, 1903                                                                                                            EVENT: Captain Armand Jacot and company began a campaign against a group of Arab marauders.                                                               

SOURCE:  "For a long shot, gaunt month he and his little troup had scoured the waste places of the desert waste in search of a band of marauders of camels, horses, and goats, as well as murders enough to have sent the whole unsavory gang to the guillotine several times over." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.

Arab Raiders

DATE:  June 18,1903
EVENT:  Captain Armand Jacote, nicknamed the Hawk, and troops spent a week overtaking Achmet ben Houdin and his band of marauders before capturing them.
SOURCE:  "A week before he had come upon them." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.

French Foreign Legion

DATE:  evening June 18, 1903

EVENT:  As the French soldiers made camp that evening Achmet ben Houdin's uncle, Sheik Amor ben Khatour, tried to bribe the French into letting his sister's boy go.

SOURCE:  "Lazily he puffed upon his cigarette and watched his orderly who was preparing his evening meal." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.

J. Allen St. John

DATE:  June 18,1903
EVENT:  Achmet ben Houdin was tried and hanged.
SOURCE:  "All of this happened some three years before the opening of this tale." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.

French Garrison

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.