Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 239, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 February 1931 — Page 20

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TANAR OF PELLUCIDAR By EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS “TARZANOF THE APES '

Tanar Is the son of the Kins of Bsrl. a countrv tn Pellucidar. a strange world somewhere beneath the earth's crust •Some years before. David Innes and \bner Perrv had oenetratcd to Pcilucldar '.tom the outer world Dsvl dhad established himself as emperor of a certain region. In an Invasion of a savage horde who rail themselves Korsars. Tanar Is carried away on one of their ships. David, taking with him Ja. the Kir.g of Anoroc. and a Korsar prisoner to guide them, sets out in a small boat to follow the enemy. A terrific storm comes up. The ship taming Tanar Is wrecked. The Korsars and their chief, the cid. take to the amall boats, leaving Tanar and The Clq s daughter, Steliara. behind Steliara tells Tanar that The Cid had kintinapped her mother from the island of Amiocap previous to her birth, that he thinks she Is his daughter, but that her mother had told her that her father was an Amlocapian. The battered Korsar vessel drifts to ’he shores of Amiocap. there Tanar and Steliara have many adventures. Jude, * man from the Island of Hlme. steals Steliara and carries her awav to Hime. Tanar pursues him and Is guided bv a Hlmean girl named Gura to Jude’s village. He finds Steliara and Is about to recuc her. when he falls Into the hands of a hand of Korsars. He and Steliara and Gura are brought Jo Korsar. Btellara thinks that Tanar has fallen in love with Gura and treat' him coldly. In Korsar. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE (Continued) With loud squeais it sought to fasten its fangs in his flesh, but the Sarian was too quick and too powerful. His fingers closed once upon Ihc creature’s neck. He swung its body around a few times until the neck broke and then he hurled the corpse toward the advancing pack that he already could see in the distance through the dim light in the corridor, in the center of which Tanar now stood awaiting his inevitable doom, but he was prepared to fight until he was dragged down by the creatures. As he Waited, he heard a noise behind him and he thought that another pack was taking him in the rear, but as he glanced over his shoulder he saw the figure of a man, standing in front of a doorway further down the corridor. "Come,’’ shouted the stranger. ‘'You will find safety here.” Nor did Tanar lose any time in racing flown the corridor to where the man stood, the rats close at his heels. "Quick, in here,” cried his savior. Seizing Tanar by the arm, he dragged him through the doorway into a large room in which there were a dozen or more men. At the doorway the rat pack stopped, glaring in. but not one of them crossed the threshold. The room in which he found himself was lighted by two larger windows than that in the room which he just had quitted and in the better light he had an opportunity to examine the man who had rescued him. The fellow was a copper-col-ored giant with fine features. n a it AS the man turned his face a little more toward the light of the windows, Tanar gave an exclamation of surprise and delight. “Ja!” he cried, and before Ja coiild reply to the salutation, mother man sprang forward from the far end of the room. “Tanar!” exclaimed the second madi. “Tanar, the son of Ghak!” As the Sarian wheeled he found himself standing face to face with David Innes, Emperor of Pellucidar. •jja of Anoroc and the Emperor!” cripd Tanar. “What has happened? What brought you here?” ‘Tit is well that we were here,” said Ja. “and that I heard the rat pack squealing just when I did. These other fellows,” and he nodded toward the remaining prisoners, •’haven't brains enough to try to save the newcomers that are incarcerated here. “David and I have been trying to pound it into their stupid heads that the more of us there are the .safer we shall be from the attacks of the rats, but all they think of is that they are safe now, and so they do not care what becomes of the other poor devils that are shoved down here. But tell us, Tanar. where you have been and how you came here at last.” “It is a long story,” replied the Sarian, “and first I would hear the story of my Emperor.” “There is little of interest in the adventures that befell us," said David,” but there may be points of great value to us in what I have managed to learn from the Korsars concerning a number of problems that, have been puzzling me. u n tx THEN we saw the Korsars W fleet sail away with you and others of our people, prisoners aboard them, wc were filled with dismay. As we stood upon the shore of the great sea above the Land of Awful Shadow, we were depressed by the hopelessness of ever effecting your rescue. It was then that I determined to risk the venture which is responsible for our being here in

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the dungeon of the capital of Korsar. “From all those who volunteered !to accompany me I selected Ja. and •we took with us to be our pilot a | Korsar prisoner named Fitt. Our j boat was one of those abandoned by 1 the Korsars in their flight and in ,it we pursued the course toward Korsar without incident until we were overwhelmed by the most terrific storm that I ever have witnessed.” "Doubtless the same storm that wrecked the Korsars’ fleet that was bearing as away,” said Tanar. "Unquestionably,” said David, “as you will know in a moment. The storm carried away all our rigging, snapping the mast short off at the deck, and left us helpless except for two pairs of oars. “As you may know, these great sweeps are so heavy that, as a rule, two or three men handle a single oar, and as there were only three of us, we could do little more than paddle slowly along, with one man paddling on eitner side, while the third relieved first one and then the other at intervals. “Fitt had laid a course which my compass show ed me to be almost due north and this we followed with little deviation or no deviation after the storm had subsided. We slept and ate many times before Fitt announced that we were not far from the island of Amiocap. “We still had ample water and provisions to last us the rest of our journey, if we had been equipped with a sail, but the slow progress of paddling threatened to find us sacI ing starvation, or death, by thirst, long before we could hope to reach Korsar. “With this fate staring us in the face, we decided to land on Amiocap and fix our craft, but before we could do so we were overtaken by a Korsar ship and were taken prisoners.” CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX THE vessel that picked us up,” continued David, “was one of those that had formed the armada of The Cid, and was, as far as they know, the only one that had survived the storm. Shortly before i they found us, they had picked up a boat load of survivors of The Cid’s ship, including The Cid himself. ; and from The Cid we learned that ! you and the other prisoners doubtless had been lost with his vessel, w’hich he said was in a sinking condition at the time he abandoned it. “To my surprise I learned that The Cid also had abandoned his own daughter to her fate and I believe that this cowardly act weighed heavily upon his mind, for he always was taciturn and moody.” “She did not die,” said Tanar. “We escaped together, the sole survivors, as far as we knew, of The Cid’s ship, though later we were captured by the members of another boat crew that also had made the island of Amiocap and with them were brought to Korsar. “In my conversation with The Cid,” resumed David, “and also with the officers and men of the Korsar ship, I sought to sound them on their knowledge of the extent of this sea. which is known as the Korsar Az. Among other things I learned that they possess compasses and are conversant with their use and they told me that to the west they had never sailed to the extreme limits of the Korsar Az, which they state reaches on, a vast body of water, for countless leagues beyond the knowledge of man.” “But to the east they have followed the shore line from Korsar southward almost to the shore upon which they landed to attack the em- ' pire of Pellucidar. “Now this suggests, in fact almost proves, that Korsar lies upon the same great continent as the empire of Pellucidar, and if we can escape from prison we may be able to make our way by land back to our own country. “These other prisoners tell us,” continued David, “that the fact that we are not immediately killed indicates that they are saving us for some purpose; but what that purpose is I can not conceive.” “I can,” said Tanar. “In fact I am quite sure that I know.” “And what is it?” demanded Ja. “They wish us to teach them to make firearms and powder such as ours,” replied the Sarian. “But where do you suppose they ever got firearms and pow’der in the first place?" a a u the great ships they sail.” v/ added Ja: “ships that are even larger than those which we build? These things w-e re unknown in Pellucidar before David and

Perry’ came to us, yet the Korsars appear to have known of them and used them always.” “I have an idea,” said David; “yet it is such a mad idea that I almost have hesitated to entertain it. much less to express it.” “What is it?” asked Tanar. “It was suggested to me in my conversations with the Korsars themselves,” replied the Emperor. “Without exception they have all assured me that their ancestors came from another w r orld—a world above which trfe sun did not stand perpetually at zenith, but crossed the heavens regularly, leaving the world in darkness half the time. “They say that a port of this world is very cold and that their ancestors, who were seafaring men, became caught with their ships in the frozen waters; that their compasses turned in all directions and became useless to them, and that when finally they broke through the ice and sailed away in the direction that they thought was south, they came into Pellucidar, w-hich they found inhabited only by naked savages an dw-ild beasts. “And here they set up their city and built new ships. They intermarried with the natives, which in this part of Pellucidar seem to have been of a very low order,” David paused. “Well,” asked Tanar, “w’hat does it all mean?” “It means,” said David, “that if their legend is true, or based upon fact, that their ancestors came from the same outer world from which Perry and I came, but by what avenue?—that is the astounding enigma." Many times during their incarceration the three men discussed this subject, but never were they able to arrive at any definite solution of the mystery. Food was brought to them many times and several times they slept before Korsar soldiers came and took them from the dungeon. THEY w-ere led to the palace of The Cid, the architecture of which but tended to increase the mystery of the origin of this strange race in the mind of David Innes, for the building seemed to show indisputable proof of Moorish influence. Within the palace they w-ere conducted to a large room, comfortably filled with the whiskered Korsars docked out in their gaudiest raiment. Upon a dais, at one end of the room,a man was seated upon a large, ornately carved chair. It w-as The Cid, and as David’s eyes fell upon him, his mind suddenly grasped, for the first time, a significant suggestion in the title of the ruler of the Korsars. Previously the name had been only a name to David. He had not considered it as a title; nor had it by association awakened any particular train of thought, but now, coupled with the Moorish palace and the carved throne, it did. The Cid! Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar —EI Campbeador—a national hero of eleventh-century Spain. What did it mean? His thoughts reverted to the ships of the Korsars—their motley crews with arquebuses and cutlasses—and he recalled the thrilling stories of the Spanish Main. Could it be merely coincidence? Could a nation of people have grown up within the inner world, who so closely resembled the buccaneers of the seventeenth contury, or had their forebears in truth found their way hither from the outer crust? (To Be Continued) (Copyright. 1931. bv Metropolitan Newspaper Feature Service. Inc.; Copyright, 1929. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Inc.)

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TARZAN AND THE GOLDEN LION

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Tribal wars, Tarzan had heard, had waged fiercely during his long absence. Had his own Waziri warriors remained faithful to him and their trust? A few days now would bring the answer. Hope and fear unspoken were in the hearts of all three. Each day Jad-bal-ja became more accustomed to them and his foste:: mother who came to accept the lion as flesh of her flesh. As the moment came when the trail would break from the dense jungle, Jane, Korais and ev*,n Tarzan were filled with suppressed excitement.

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And in truth great was the rejoicing. Not for one night but for several. There was feasting on boar and antelope. Barbaric dancing and weird jungle songs. The heavens echoed with the glad cries of the women because the three they loved most on earth had returned to them. Za the dog and Jad-bal-ja the Golden Lion had never witnessed such a party! At la*t Tarzan was compelled to put a stop to the festivities in order tthat he and his family might gain a few L ys ol unbroken slumber.

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