"There are many carcasses in the camp above," replied Ja-don, "for
my men have little else to do than hunt."

"Good," exclaimed Tarzan. "Have them brought at once."

And when the meat was-brought and laid at a distance the ape-man
slipped from the back of his fierce charger and fed him with his
own hand. "See that there is always plenty of flesh for him," he
said to Ja-don, for he guessed that his mastery might be short-lived
should the vicious beast become over-hungry.

It was morning before they could leave for Ja-lur, but Tarzan found
the gryf lying where he had left him the night before beside the
carcasses of two antelope and a lion; but now there was nothing
but the gryf.

"The paleontologists say that he was herbivorous," said Tarzan as
he and Jane approached the beast.

The journey to Ja-lur was made through the scattered villages where
Ja-don hoped to arouse a keener enthusiasm for his cause. A party
of warriors preceded Tarzan that the people might properly be
prepared, not only for the sight of the gryf but to receive the
Dor-ul-Otho as became his high station. The results were all that
Ja-don could have hoped and in no village through which they passed
was there one who doubted the deity of the ape-man.

As they approached Ja-lur a strange warrior joined them, one whom
none of Ja-don's following knew. He said he came from one of the