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Updated: May 4, 2025
As quick as was EL ADREA, Tarzan of the Apes was quicker, and so the great beast crashed against a tree where he had expected to feel the soft flesh of man, while Tarzan, a couple of paces to the right, pumped another bullet into him that brought him clawing and roaring to his side. Twice more Tarzan fired in quick succession, and then EL ADREA lay still and roared no more.
John Caldwell, London As Numa EL ADREA launched himself with widespread paws and bared fangs he looked to find this puny man as easy prey as the score who had gone down beneath him in the past. To him man was a clumsy, slow-moving, defenseless creature he had little respect for him. But this time he found that he was pitted against a creature as agile and as quick as himself.
No more will he slink silently upon his unsuspecting prey. No more will his great head and his maned shoulders strike terror to the hearts of the grass eaters at the drinking ford by night. No more will his thundering roar shake the ground. El Adrea is dead. They beat his body terribly when it was brought into the village; but El Adrea did not mind. He did not feel the blows, for he was dead.
Just now he kicked me and hurt me so, Geeka; but I was only sitting before the tent making a skirt for you. That must be wicked, or he would not have kicked me for it. But why is it wicked, Geeka? Oh dear! I do not know, I do not know. I wish, Geeka, that I were dead. Yesterday the hunters brought in the body of El Adrea. El Adrea was quite dead.
"EL ADREA is abroad tonight, and after I left the horses I think he winded me and was following I was terribly frightened." "What a brave girl," he said. "And you ran all that risk for a stranger an alien an unbeliever?" She drew herself up very proudly. "I am the daughter of the Sheik Kabour ben Saden," she answered.
A little cry of alarm was startled from the girl's lips, but Tarzan landed in the street with but an imperceptible jar, and lowered her in safety to her feet. She clung to him for a moment. "How strong m'sieur is, and how active," she cried. "EL ADREA, the black lion, himself is not more so." "I should like to meet this EL ADREA of yours," he said. "I have heard much about him."
When the girl had recited the story of the slaying of EL ADREA Tarzan was surrounded by a mob of worshiping Arabs it was a sure road to their admiration and respect. The old sheik insisted that Tarzan remain indefinitely as his guest.
"And you come to the DOUAR of my father you shall see him," said the girl. "He lives in a spur of the mountains north of us, and comes down from his lair at night to rob my father's DOUAR. With a single blow of his mighty paw he crushes the skull of a bull, and woe betide the belated wayfarer who meets EL ADREA abroad at night." Without further mishap they reached the hotel.
Even now I cannot believe that it is possible for a lone man armed only with a knife to have fought hand to hand with EL ADREA and conquered him, unscathed to have conquered him at all. And that cry it was not human. Why did you do that?" Tarzan flushed. "It is because I forget," he said, "sometimes, that I am a civilized man. When I kill it must be that I am another creature."
In either case the result would be the same it was inevitable; but she could not repress a thrill of admiration as her eyes rested upon the heroic figure before her. Not a tremor in the whole giant frame his attitude as menacing and defiant as that of EL ADREA himself. The lion was quite close to him now but a few paces intervened he crouched, and then, with a deafening roar, he sprang.
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