Dense scrub and savage jungle impeded his path; barren and stony mountain ranges arose before him.

Then that happened which Tarzan had witnessed a hundred times before among the wild denizens of his own savage jungle.

Beyond these foes a black wilderness of savage jungle peopled by hideous beasts of prey and still more hideous human beasts.

For over twenty years, from infancy to manhood, the ape-man had roamed his savage jungle haunts without human companionship of any nature.

Then, too, there was the mute appeal of this wee waif alone and unloved in the midst of the horrors of the savage jungle.

Ahead of the hauptmann marched half his company, behind him the other half-thuswere the dangers of the savage jungle minimized for the German captain.

"There is no need for Miss or Mister in the savage jungle, Virginia."

"I could be in no more danger here," I said, "than naked and unarmed in the savage jungles or upon the lonely plains of Pellucidar.