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Here
,
safe
from
interruption
,
the
tribe
often
gathered
.
In
the
center
of
the
amphitheater
was
one
of
those
strange
earthen
drums
which
the
anthropoids
build
for
the
queer
rites
the
sounds
of
which
men
have
heard
in
the
fastnesses
of
the
jungle
,
but
which
none
has
ever
witnessed
.
Many
travelers
have
seen
the
drums
of
the
great
apes
,
and
some
have
heard
the
sounds
of
their
beating
and
the
noise
of
the
wild
,
weird
revelry
of
these
first
lords
of
the
jungle
,
but
Tarzan
,
Lord
Greystoke
,
is
,
doubtless
,
the
only
human
being
who
ever
joined
in
the
fierce
,
mad
,
intoxicating
revel
of
the
Dum-Dum
.
From
this
primitive
function
has
arisen
,
unquestionably
,
all
the
forms
and
ceremonials
of
modern
church
and
state
,
for
through
all
the
countless
ages
,
back
beyond
the
uttermost
ramparts
of
a
dawning
humanity
our
fierce
,
hairy
forebears
danced
out
the
rites
of
the
Dum-Dum
to
the
sound
of
their
earthen
drums
,
beneath
the
bright
light
of
a
tropical
moon
in
the
depth
of
a
mighty
jungle
which
stands
unchanged
today
as
it
stood
on
that
long
forgotten
night
in
the
dim
,
unthinkable
vistas
of
the
long
dead
past
when
our
first
shaggy
ancestor
swung
from
a
swaying
bough
and
dropped
lightly
upon
the
soft
turf
of
the
first
meeting
place
.
On
the
day
that
Tarzan
won
his
emancipation
from
the
persecution
that
had
followed
him
remorselessly
for
twelve
of
his
thirteen
years
of
life
,
the
tribe
,
now
a
full
hundred
strong
,
trooped
silently
through
the
lower
terrace
of
the
jungle
trees
and
dropped
noiselessly
upon
the
floor
of
the
amphitheater
.
The
rites
of
the
Dum-Dum
marked
important
events
in
the
life
of
the
tribe
--
a
victory
,
the
capture
of
a
prisoner
,
the
killing
of
some
large
fierce
denizen
of
the
jungle
,
the
death
or
accession
of
a
king
,
and
were
conducted
with
set
ceremonialism
.
Today
it
was
the
killing
of
a
giant
ape
,
a
member
of
another
tribe
,
and
as
the
people
of
Kerchak
entered
the
arena
two
mighty
bulls
were
seen
bearing
the
body
of
the
vanquished
between
them
.
They
laid
their
burden
before
the
earthen
drum
and
then
squatted
there
beside
it
as
guards
,
while
the
other
members
of
the
community
curled
themselves
in
grassy
nooks
to
sleep
until
the
rising
moon
should
give
the
signal
for
the
commencement
of
their
savage
orgy
.
For
hours
absolute
quiet
reigned
in
the
little
clearing
,
except
as
it
was
broken
by
the
discordant
notes
of
brilliantly
feathered
parrots
,
or
the
screeching
and
twittering
of
the
thousand
jungle
birds
flitting
ceaselessly
amongst
the
vivid
orchids
and
flamboyant
blossoms
which
festooned
the
myriad
,
moss-covered
branches
of
the
forest
kings
.
At
length
as
darkness
settled
upon
the
jungle
the
apes
commenced
to
bestir
themselves
,
and
soon
they
formed
a
great
circle
about
the
earthen
drum
.
The
females
and
young
squatted
in
a
thin
line
at
the
outer
periphery
of
the
circle
,
while
just
in
front
of
them
ranged
the
adult
males
.
Before
the
drum
sat
three
old
females
,
each
armed
with
a
knotted
branch
fifteen
or
eighteen
inches
in
length
.
Slowly
and
softly
they
began
tapping
upon
the
resounding
surface
of
the
drum
as
the
first
faint
rays
of
the
ascending
moon
silvered
the
encircling
tree
tops
.
