Go to the author's family genealogy to provide a date Burroughs could have used as a source. To provide a Burroughs-friendly working date for this event we When the Porter party was beached, Tarzan age twenty, there is no hint of a semi-erected second room and the cabin is again clearly described as having only one room.īy this research, it is evident that the Mangani attacked Clayton within a few days of his August 27 completion of the first edition. When Tarzan, age ten, investigated his father's cabin years later nowhere in any of the descriptions does it hint at a semi-erected second room? John Clayton I's cabin is clearly described as having only one room. If any construction on a second edition to the cabin was underway, Tarzan and the Porter party would have seen the remains upon their first visit. Since Clayton was cutting down a tree for building purposes when the Mangani bull attacked him, it is obvious the Englishman had just finished the first section of the cabin and was just at the very beginning stage of his secondary project. We must not give ourselves time to think, for in that direction lies madness.' ERB- Tarzan Of The Apes. 'There is but one thing to do, Alice, and that is work. Once this project was completed it is very likely Clayton began the second addition almost immediately. If Clayton begins work on June 27, that means the Greystoke's were well settled by August 27. The author says the Greystoke's one-room cabin was built, furnished, and moved into by the second month. As mentioned earlier the author inserted many dates and names from the Burroughs genealogy, so when a working date is needed I follow Burroughs' tradition and also use their family genealogy.Īs you can see, there will never be a way to obtain an undebatable date, but there is a way to obtain a Burroughs' friendly date. Therefore, any date provided is mere speculation, but we still need one if you want to have a chronology.

'One afternoon while Clayton was working upon an addition to their cabin he was interrupted by a group of fleeing monkies,' ERB- Tarzan Of The Apes. Source: This is another event that Burroughs choice not to share the date with us. That night Lady Alice gives birth to a healthy son. Event: A Mangani bull attacks Clayton while he is working on an addition to the cabin.

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