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Tarzan the Terrible

Tarzan the Terrible

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Tarzan the Terrible


By

Edgar Rice Burroughs




CHAPTER  
I   The Pithecanthropus
II   "To the Death!"
III   Pan-at-lee
IV   Tarzan-jad-guru
V   In the Kor-ul-GRYF
VI   The Tor-o-don
VII   Jungle Craft
VIII   A-lur
IX   Blood-Stained Altars
X   The Forbidden Garden
XI   The Sentence of Death
XII   The Giant Stranger
XIII   The Masquerader
XIV   The Temple of the Gryf
XV   "The King Is Dead!"
XVI   The Secret Way
XVII   By Jad-bal-lul
XVIII   The Lion Pit of Tu-lur
XIX   Diana of the Jungle
XX   Silently in the Night
XXI   The Maniac
XXII   A Journey on a Gryf
XXIII   Taken Alive
XXIV   The Messenger of Death
XXV   Home
   Glossary




1

The Pithecanthropus

Silent as the shadows through which he moved, the great beast slunk through the midnight jungle, his yellow-green eyes round and staring, his sinewy tail undulating behind him, his head lowered and flattened, and every muscle vibrant to the thrill of the hunt. The jungle moon dappled an occasional clearing which the great cat was always careful to avoid. Though he moved through thick verdure across a carpet of innumerable twigs, broken branches, and leaves, his passing gave forth no sound that might have been apprehended by dull human ears.

Apparently less cautious was the hunted thing moving even as silently as the lion a hundred paces ahead of the tawny carnivore, for instead of skirting the moon-splashed natural clearings it passed directly across them, and by the tortuous record of its spoor it might indeed be guessed that it sought these avenues of least resistance, as well it might, since, unlike its grim stalker, it walked erect upon two feet—it walked upon two feet and was hairless except for a black thatch upon its head; its arms were well shaped and muscular; its hands powerful and slender with long tapering fingers and thumbs

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