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The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Beasts of Tarzan
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Title: The Beasts of Tarzan
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Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Release date: October 1, 1993 [eBook #85]
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Most recently updated: June 21, 2022
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Language: English
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Credits: Judith Boss
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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BEASTS OF TARZAN ***
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[Illustration]
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The Beasts of Tarzan
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by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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To Joan Burroughs
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Contents
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CHAPTER I. Kidnapped
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CHAPTER II. Marooned
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CHAPTER III. Beasts at Bay
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CHAPTER IV. Sheeta
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CHAPTER V. Mugambi
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CHAPTER VI. A Hideous Crew
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CHAPTER VII. Betrayed
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CHAPTER VIII. The Dance of Death
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CHAPTER IX. Chivalry or Villainy
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CHAPTER X. The Swede
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CHAPTER XI. Tambudza
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CHAPTER XII. A Black Scoundrel
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CHAPTER XIII. Escape
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CHAPTER XIV. Alone in the Jungle
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CHAPTER XV. Down the Ugambi
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CHAPTER XVI. In the Darkness of the Night
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CHAPTER XVII. On the Deck of the “Kincaid”
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CHAPTER XVIII. Paulvitch Plots Revenge
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CHAPTER XIX. The Last of the “Kincaid”
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CHAPTER XX. Jungle Island Again
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CHAPTER XXI. The Law of the Jungle
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CHAPTER I.
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Kidnapped
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“The entire affair is shrouded in mystery,” said D’Arnot. “I have it on
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the best of authority that neither the police nor the special agents of
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the general staff have the faintest conception of how it was
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accomplished. All they know, all that anyone knows, is that Nikolas
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Rokoff has escaped.”
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John Clayton, Lord Greystoke—he who had been “Tarzan of the Apes”—sat
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in silence in the apartments of his friend, Lieutenant Paul D’Arnot, in
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Paris, gazing meditatively at the toe of his immaculate boot.
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His mind revolved many memories, recalled by the escape of his
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arch-enemy from the French military prison to which he had been
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sentenced for life upon the testimony of the ape-man.
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He thought of the lengths to which Rokoff had once gone to compass his
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death, and he realized that what the man had already done would
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doubtless be as nothing by comparison with what he would wish and plot
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to do now that he was again free.
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Tarzan had recently brought his wife and infant son to London to escape
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the discomforts and dangers of the rainy season upon their vast estate
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in Uziri—the land of the savage Waziri warriors whose broad African
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domains the ape-man had once ruled.
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He had run across the Channel for a brief visit with his old friend,
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but the news of the Russian’s escape had already cast a shadow upon his
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outing, so that though he had but just arrived he was already
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contemplating an immediate return to London.
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“It is not that I fear for myself, Paul,” he said at last. “Many times
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in the past have I thwarted Rokoff’s designs upon my life; but now
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there are others to consider. Unless I misjudge the man, he would more
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quickly strike at me through my wife or son than directly at me, for he
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