jungle

Chil, the Kite, stayed and grew fat, for there was a great deal of carrion, and evening after evening he brought the news to the beasts, too weak to force their way to fresh hunting-grounds, that the sun was killing the Jungle for three days" flight in every direction.

All the game in the jungle was no more than skin and bone, and Bagheera could kill thrice in a night, and hardly get a full meal.

As to the sailors, he was sure that the jungle would exact from them expiation for their villainies, nor, doubtless, was he wrong, for his were the last white man's eyes to rest upon any of them.

So sudden and unexpected had been his return, and so quickly had he vanished into the jungle after learning that those he sought were not among the Waganwazam, that old M'ganwazam had no time to prevent his going.

With a final scream of jungle invective and an apelike grimace at his departing foe, Tarzan continued along his way.

Another mile and a shifting wind brought to his keen nostrils a familiar, pungent odor close at hand, and a moment later there loomed beneath him a huge, gray-black bulk forging steadily along the jungle trail.

Tarzan explained that he had wished to purchase Akut and return him to his jungle home, and to this the mother assented.

They knew one another in the jungle. My father is Lord Greystoke.

He is well acquainted with this part of the jungle, having lived here all his life, and he offers to guide us to a place where we can get mules to transport ourselves and our baggage to Copan."

So it was agreed that they would make a forced march back through the jungle to where they had been deserted by Jacinto.

He had taken scarce a dozen steps toward the jungle when a great form rose up before him from the shadows of a low bush.

In his veins, though, flowed the blood of the best of a race of mighty fighters, and back of this was the training of his short lifetime among the fierce brutes of the jungle.

Down to the ground he came in the utter blackness of the close-set boles and the overhanging verdure of the jungle. He stooped from time to time and put his nose close to earth.

Jungle life is ordered along different lines than ours and different standards prevail.