The Lady Alice breaks down and sinks, forcing the passengers and crew into the lifeboats. Thuran, ingratiates himself with the party and is also invited along. They are all invited on a cruise up the west coast of Africa aboard the Lady Alice, the yacht
Meanwhile, Hazel Strong has reached Cape Town, where she encounters Jane, and her father Professor Porter, together with Jane’sįiancé, Tarzan’s cousin William Cecil Clayton. But the ape man escapes on his own, locates the treasure chamber, and manages to rejoin the Waziri. When the ceremony is fortuitously interrupted, she hides She tells him she is La, high priestess of the lost city of Opar. To his surprise, the priestess to perform the sacrifice is a beautiful woman, who speaks the ape language Tarzan has them take him there, but is captured by its inhabitants, a race of beast-like men, and condemned to be sacrificed to their sun god. The Waziri know of a lost city deep in the jungle, from which they have obtained their golden ornaments. After defeating a raid on their village by ivory raiders he becomes their chief. He soon rescues and befriends a native warrior, Busuli of the Waziri, and is adopted into the Waziri tribe. Miraculously, Tarzan manages to swim to shore, and finds himself in the coastal jungle where he was brought up by the apes. But Rokoff and Paulovitch are also aboard, and manage to ambush him and throw him overboard. Afterward Tarzan sails for Cape Town and strikes up a shipboard acquaintance with Hazel Strong, a friend of Jane’s. A sequence of adventures among the local Arabs ensues, including another brush with Rokoff. In return, Count Raoul finds him a job as a special agent in Algeria for the ministry of war. Tarzan deliberately refuses to defend himself in the duel, even offering the count his own weapon after the latter fails to kill him with his own, a grand gesture that convinces his antagonist of his innocence. Later, in France, Rockoff tries time and again to eliminate the ape man, finally engineering a duel between him and the count by making it appear that he is the countess’s lover. Tarzan thwarts the villains’ scheme, making them his deadly enemies. Rokoff, it turns out, is also the countess’s brother. On the ship he becomes embroiled in the affairs of Countess Olga de Coude, her husband, Count Raoul de Coude, and two shady characters attempting to prey on them, Nikolas Rokoff and his henchman Alexis Paulvitch. Prospects of wedding Jane Porter, leaves America for Europe to visit his friend Paul d’Arnot. The ape man, feeling rootless in the wake of his noble sacrifice of his
The novel picks up where Tarzan of the Apes left off.
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