Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs This public-domain (U.S.) text was created by Judith Boss, Omaha, Nebraska. The Project Gutenberg edition (“tarzn10”) was subsequently converted to LATEX using Guten- Mark software and re-edited (for formatting only) by Ron Burkey. Report problems to
[email protected]. Revision B1 differs from B in that “—-” has everywhere been replaced by “—”. Revision: B1 Date: 01/27/2008 Contents Out to Sea 1 The Savage Home 17 Life and Death 31 The Apes 41 The White Ape 53 Jungle Battles 65 The Light of Knowledge 75 The Tree-top Hunter 91 Man and Man 99 The Fear-Phantom 115 “King of the Apes” 123 Man’s Reason 139 His Own Kind 151 At the Mercy of the Jungle 171 i ii The Forest God 185 “Most Remarkable” 193 Burials 207 The Jungle Toll 223 The Call of the Primitive 241 Heredity 257 The Village of Torture 275 The Search Party 285 Brother Men 299 Lost Treasure 313 The Outpost of the World 325 The Height of Civilization 341 The Giant Again 357 Conclusion 375 Out to Sea I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale. When my convivial host discovered that he had told me so much, and that I was prone to doubtfulness, his foolish pride assumed the task the old vintage had commenced, and so he unearthed written evidence in the form of musty manuscript, and dry official records of the British Colonial Office to support many of the salient features of his remarkable narra- tive.