Under cover of gunfire, most of the safari makes it to some nearby caves, set into the face of a rocky cliff. However, shortly after the safari is confronted by a hostile tribe of "lion men", who kill two of the bearers and intend to kill the entire safari. Cheeta returns and lets Jane know that Tarzan is alive. Chased by a lion, Cheeta escapes and comes upon the chimpanzee group tending to Tarzan.Īs Tarzan recuperates, the safari makes its way through the jungle. Arlington and Holt have their baggage carriers each take a tusk from the burial ground, and they begin to head back. A distraught Jane agrees to return to civilization.
The head chimpanzee applies plant sap to staunch the bleeding.Īrlington returns to the group, claiming that he saw Tarzan being killed by an alligator.
Tarzan has received a head wound, but the bullet only grazed him, though it has left him very weak. After Arlington leaves, a hippopotamus rescues a semi-conscious Tarzan and carries him to a group of chimpanzees, which tend to him. Tarzan falls into the water, and Arlington thinks he has killed him. Satisfied, Tarzan agrees to guide their departure, and sends the elephants away.Įarly the next morning, Arlington ambushes Tarzan, shooting him out of a tree. Tarzan and Jane arrive in time to save them, after which Arlington feigns repentance, promising to leave the next day without the ivory. Elephants, aware of the impending disgrace of their sacred ground, turn up in the hundreds, and threaten to exterminate Holt and Arlington's party. Only Jane's intervention keeps Tarzan from murdering Arlington.Īfter being abandoned by Tarzan and Jane, Arlington and Holt lead their baggage carriers, led by Saidi, a friend of Jane and Tarzan's, to the burial ground, following the wounded elephant. Seizing on that idea, Arlington shoots an elephant, mortally wounding it so that it will lead them to the burial ground. Arlington asks Holt how they found the burial ground the first time, and Holt explains that they had followed a dying elephant. Arlington and Holt have everything they own tied up in this venture and are frantic to continue on. In addition, he refuses to even lead them to the burial ground, now that he knows of their intent. Tarzan, thinking that taking the ivory is profaning the burial ground, refuses. When Jane tries to convince Tarzan to call more elephants, she explains to him about hauling the ivory away. When Tarzan calls an elephant, Arlington gets the idea that they can use elephants as pack animals, enabling them to haul much more ivory. She does agree to convince Tarzan to act as their guide. Jane tells him she would rather stay with Tarzan. On this trip, Holt tries to convince Jane to return with him to civilization by bringing her gifts such as clothing and modern gadgets. Holt had sought Tarzan out, as he was the only one who knew the way to the burial ground.
Holt had visited the burial ground with Tarzan on an earlier trip, during which he had also met Jane. Harry Holt and his business partner Martin Arlington, leading a large party of locals, meet them on their way to take ivory from an elephant burial ground. Tarzan and Jane live in the jungle, along with their chimpanzee Cheeta.
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