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Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950

"Son of Tarzan"

The greater number of
enemies slain the better chance to prolong that life. So the boy
smiled and donned the finery of the vanquished, and went his way
with Akut, searching, always searching for the elusive anthropoids
who were to welcome them with open arms. And at last they found
them. Deep in the jungle, buried far from sight of man, they came
upon such another little natural arena as had witnessed the wild
ceremony of the Dum-Dum in which the boy's father had taken part
long years before.
First, at a great distance, they heard the beating of the drum of
the great apes. They were sleeping in the safety of a huge tree
when the booming sound smote upon their ears. Both awoke at once.
Akut was the first to interpret the strange cadence.
"The great apes!" he growled. "They dance the Dum-Dum. Come,
Korak, son of Tarzan, let us go to our people."
Months before Akut had given the boy a name of his own choosing,
since he could not master the man given name of Jack. Korak is as
near as it may be interpreted into human speech. In the language
of the apes it means Killer.


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