{"product_id":"2940012859297","title":"Tarzan the Untamed","description":"CHAPTER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     I  Murder and Pillage\u003cbr\u003e    II  The Lion's Cave\u003cbr\u003e   III  In the German Lines\u003cbr\u003e    IV  When the Lion Fed\u003cbr\u003e     V  The Golden Locket\u003cbr\u003e    VI  Vengeance and Mercy\u003cbr\u003e   VII  When Blood Told\u003cbr\u003e  VIII  Tarzan and the Great Apes\u003cbr\u003e    IX  Dropped from the Sky\u003cbr\u003e     X  In the Hands of Savages\u003cbr\u003e    XI  Finding the Airplane\u003cbr\u003e   XII  The Black Flier\u003cbr\u003e  XIII  Usanga's Reward\u003cbr\u003e   XIV  The Black Lion\u003cbr\u003e    XV  Mysterious Footprints\u003cbr\u003e   XVI  The Night Attack\u003cbr\u003e  XVII  The Walled City\u003cbr\u003e XVIII  Among the Maniacs\u003cbr\u003e   XIX  The Queen's Story\u003cbr\u003e    XX  Came Tarzan\u003cbr\u003e   XXI  In the Alcove\u003cbr\u003e  XXII  Out of the Niche\u003cbr\u003e XXIII  The Flight from Xuja\u003cbr\u003e  XXIV  The Tommies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMurder and Pillage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHauptmann Fritz Schneider trudged wearily through the somber aisles\u003cbr\u003eof the dark forest. Sweat rolled down his bullet head and stood\u003cbr\u003eupon his heavy jowls and bull neck. His lieutenant marched beside\u003cbr\u003ehim while Underlieutenant von Goss brought up the rear, following\u003cbr\u003ewith a handful of askaris the tired and all but exhausted porters\u003cbr\u003ewhom the black soldiers, following the example of their white officer,\u003cbr\u003eencouraged with the sharp points of bayonets and the metal-shod\u003cbr\u003ebutts of rifles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere were no porters within reach of Hauptmann Schneider so he\u003cbr\u003evented his Prussian spleen upon the askaris nearest at hand, yet\u003cbr\u003ewith greater circumspection since these men bore loaded rifles--and\u003cbr\u003ethe three white men were alone with them in the heart of Africa.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAhead of the hauptmann marched half his company, behind him the\u003cbr\u003eother half--thus were the dangers of the savage jungle minimized\u003cbr\u003efor the German captain. At the forefront of the column staggered\u003cbr\u003etwo naked savages fastened to each other by a neck chain. These\u003cbr\u003ewere the native guides impressed into the service of Kultur and upon\u003cbr\u003etheir poor, bruised bodies Kultur's brand was revealed in divers\u003cbr\u003ecruel wounds and bruises.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThus even in darkest Africa was the light of German civilization\u003cbr\u003ecommencing to reflect itself upon the undeserving natives just as\u003cbr\u003eat the same period, the fall of 1914, it was shedding its glorious\u003cbr\u003eeffulgence upon benighted Belgium.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is true that the guides had led the party astray; but this is\u003cbr\u003ethe way of most African guides. Nor did it matter that ignorance\u003cbr\u003erather than evil intent had been the cause of their failure. It\u003cbr\u003ewas enough for Hauptmann Fritz Schneider to know that he was lost\u003cbr\u003ein the African wilderness and that he had at hand human beings less\u003cbr\u003epowerful than he who could be made to suffer by torture. That he\u003cbr\u003edid not kill them outright was partially due to a faint hope that\u003cbr\u003ethey might eventually prove the means of extricating him from his\u003cbr\u003edifficulties and partially that so long as they lived they might\u003cbr\u003estill be made to suffer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe poor creatures, hoping that chance might lead them at last\u003cbr\u003eupon the right trail, insisted that they knew the way and so led\u003cbr\u003eon through a dismal forest along a winding game trail trodden deep\u003cbr\u003eby the feet of countless generations of the savage denizens of the\u003cbr\u003ejungle.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere Tantor, the elephant, took his long way from dust wallow to\u003cbr\u003ewater. Here Buto, the rhinoceros, blundered blindly in his solitary\u003cbr\u003emajesty, while by night the great cats paced silently upon their\u003cbr\u003epadded feet beneath the dense canopy of overreaching trees toward\u003cbr\u003ethe broad plain beyond, where they found their best hunting.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was at the edge of this plain which came suddenly and  unexpectedly\u003cbr\u003ebefore the eyes of the guides that their sad hearts beat with\u003cbr\u003erenewed hope. Here the hauptmann drew a deep sigh of relief, for\u003cbr\u003eafter days of hopeless wandering through almost impenetrable jungle\u003cbr\u003ethe broad vista of waving grasses dotted here and there with open\u003cbr\u003epark like woods and in the far distance the winding line of green\u003cbr\u003eshrubbery that denoted a river appeared to the European a veritable\u003cbr\u003eheaven.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Hun smiled in his relief, passed a cheery word with his  lieutenant,\u003cbr\u003eand then scanned the broad plain with his field glasses. Back and\u003cbr\u003eforth they swept across the rolling land until at last they came\u003cbr\u003eto rest upon a point near the center of the landscape and close to\u003cbr\u003ethe green-fringed contours of the river.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"We are in luck,\" said Schneider to his companions. \"Do you see\u003cbr\u003eit?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe lieutenant, who was also gazing through his own glasses,\u003cbr\u003efinally brought them to rest upon the same spot that had held the\u003cbr\u003eattention of his superior.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079197180144,"sku":"2940012859297","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012859297_p0.jpg?v=1763573523","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012859297","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}