Fires of Tohr 06

In an uncharted section of the jungles of South Central Africa, Tarzan and Darnell come upon Major Burton Ashley, Genet Burton, Dr. Wong Tai, and Terrence O'Rourke. The four whites are lost and near exhaustion. Tarzan kills a gigantic, half-human, yellow-skinned creature in their defense and leads them out of immediate danger to a distant riverbank.

In proceeding downstream, the entire party is overpowered and captured by a large band of strange yellow-skinned giants. Tarzan and Darno managed to free themselves and their bonds in escape, presumably leaving the others to their fate.

Angred at the escape of two of their captives, the savages dragor orc bound hand and foot to the edge of the river, and are about to throw into the crocodiles. Oh, it's awful! Those fiendish fruits!

Don't watch it, Janet. Ashley, can that look in that torture at the edge of the river? Where? But what is it? No, no, no, high up in the branches. In a great tree that leans far out over the river, Tarzan, in full view of the little group, stands poised on a huge limb high above the water. The eight-man watches the scene below him

with alert eyes. Bound and helpless, O'Rourke is lifted from the ground by two of the great yellow men, and tossed far out into the swift-flowing stream toward the approaching crocodile. Whether it is paring, shriek, the Irishman disappears beneath the surface of the water, water. With keen eyes on the spot where O'Rourke disappeared, grasping one end of a stout trailing

vine in his left hand, the ape man leaps out into space, soups downward toward the surface of the river in a wide, dizzy arc. Rolling over and over in the swift current, O'Rourke comes gasping to the surface. A great bull crocodile is almost upon him. About to sink again, O'Rourke hears a loud splash in the water beside him. Two bands of steel encircled