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Tarzan the Terrible

By Edgar Rice Burroughs

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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

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The Pithecanthropus

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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

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