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 and in the forefront of them a giant black warrior who shook his fist at him, threatening him with terrible death.

Tarzan felt mighty jaws close upon his right leg

The nightmare of that flight down the Ugambi with the hideous horde racing after him by day and by night, now abreast of him, now lost in the mazes of the jungle far behind for hours and once for a whole day, only to reappear again upon his trail grim, relentless, and terrible, reduced the Russian from a strong and robust man to an emaciated, white-haired, fear-gibbering thing or ever the bay and the ocean broke upon his hopeless vision.