The Son Of Tarzan

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Burroughs, Edgar Rice

"The Son Of Tarzan"

was floating down the broad Ugambi with ebb tide and current. Her crew were lazily enjoying this respite from the arduous labor of rowing up stream. Three miles below them lay the Marjorie W. herself, quite ready to sail so soon as they should have clambered aboard and swung the long boat to its davits. Presently the attention of every man was drawn from his dreaming or his gossiping to the northern bank of the river. There, screaming at them in a cracked falsetto and with skinny arms outstretched, stood a strange apparition of a man.

? ? ? ? "Wot the 'ell?" ejaculated one of the crew.

? ? ? ? "A white man!" muttered the mate, and then: "Man the oars, boys, and we'll just pull over an' see what he wants."

? ? ? ? When they came close to the shore they saw an emaciated creature with scant white locks tangled and matted. The thin, bent body was naked but for a loin cloth. Tears were rolling down the sunken pock-marked cheeks. The man jabbered at them in a strange tongue.

? ? ? ? "Rooshun," hazarded the mate.

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Burroughs, Edgar Rice

"The Son Of Tarzan"