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Updated: May 11, 2025
He whispered a word in one of the great ears and Tantor, the elephant, raised his trunk aloft, swinging it high and low to catch the scent that the word had warned him of. There was another whispered word was it a command? and the lumbering beast wheeled into an awkward, yet silent shuffle, in the direction of Numa, the lion, and the stranger Tarmangani his rider had scented.
The man upon Tantor's broad head saw the girl in the man's arms. It was Korak; but in the trim figure of the neatly garbed girl he did not recognize his Meriem. He only saw a Tarmangani with his she. And then Numa charged. With a frightful roar, fearful lest Tantor had come to frighten away his prey, the great beast leaped from his hiding place. The earth trembled to his mighty voice.
I could not kill her with my own hands when I tried, and if I let them go on alone, I will have killed her just as surely as though I had run my knife into her heart. No," and again he shook his head. "Tarzan of the Apes is a fool and a weak, old woman," and he turned back toward the south. Manu, the monkey, had seen the two Tarmangani pass two days before.
The moment that he turned he saw that the author of the disturbance was Zu-tag. "What does Zu-tag want?" asked the ape-man. "Zu-tag comes to the water to drink," replied the ape. "Where is the tribe?" asked Tarzan. "They are hunting for pisangs and scimatines farther back in the forest," replied Zu-tag. "And the Tarmangani she and bull " asked Tarzan, "are they safe?"
They have the minds of little children that is why they remain what they are." "You call them Mangani and yourself Tarmangani what is the difference?" asked Major Preswick. "Tar means white," replied Tarzan, "and Mangani, great ape. My name the name they gave me in the tribe of Kerchak means White-skin.
He will come in peace and live in peace or he will kill; but he has come and he will stay. Which shall Tarzan dance the Dum-Dum in peace with his brothers, or shall Tarzan kill first?" "I am Go-lat, King of the Apes," screamed the great bull. "I kill! I kill! I kill!" and with a sullen roar he charged the Tarmangani.
"I am Korak," he said. "I opened the cage that held you. I saved you from the Tarmangani. I am Korak, The Killer. I am your friend." "Huh," grunted the king. "Yes, you are Korak. My ears told me that you were Korak. My eyes told you that you were Korak. Now my nose tells me that you are Korak. My nose is never wrong. I am your friend. Come, we shall hunt together."
Then would come again visions of Korak, and, tired at last of leaping and swinging through the trees, she would stretch herself comfortably upon a branch and dream. And presently, as today, she found the features of Korak slowly dissolve and merge into those of another, and the figure of a tanned, half-naked tarmangani become a khaki clothed Englishman astride a hunting pony.
Now it was little Manu, the monkey, who chattered and scolded at the mighty Tarmangani and in the next breath warned him that Histah, the snake, lay coiled in the long grass just ahead. Of Manu Tarzan inquired concerning the great apes the Mangani and was told that few inhabited this part of the jungle, and that even these were hunting farther to the north this season of the year.
The gomangani are bad people. They will kill us all if we enter their village." "The Tarmangani have sticks that make a loud noise and kill at a great distance," replied Korak. "They had these when Korak set you free from their trap. If Korak had run away from them you would now be a prisoner among the Tarmangani." The baboon scratched his head.
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