T HE following morning, Tarzan, lame and
sore from the wounds of his battle with
Terkoz, set out toward the west and the seacoast.
He traveled very slowly, sleeping in the jungle
at night, and reaching his cabin late the following
morning.

For several days he moved about but little,
only enough to gather what fruit and nuts he
required to satisfy the demands of hunger.

In ten days he was quite sound again, except
for a terrible, half-healed scar, which, starting
above his left eye ran across the top of his head,
ending at the right ear. It was the mark left by
Terkoz when he had torn the scalp away.

During his convalescence Tarzan tried to fash-
ion a mantle from the skin of Sabor, which had
lain all this time in the cabin. But he found the
hide had dried as stiff as a board, and as he knew
naught of tanning, he was forced to abandon his
cherished plan.

Then he determined to filch what few gar-
ments he could from one of the black men of
Mbonga's village, for Tarzan of the Apes had
decided to mark his evolution from the lower or-

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