those steel muscles into action so marvelously swift as to baffle
even a keener eyesight than Tantor's.

And so it happened that before the elephant realized that his new
enemy had leaped from his path Tarzan had driven his iron-shod spear
from behind the massive shoulder straight into the fierce heart,
and the colossal pachyderm had toppled to his death at the feet of
the ape-man.

Busuli had not beheld the manner of his deliverance, but Waziri,
the old chief, had seen, and several of the other warriors, and
they hailed Tarzan with delight as they swarmed about him and his
great kill. When he leaped upon the mighty carcass, and gave voice
to the weird challenge with which he announced a great victory,
the blacks shrank back in fear, for to them it marked the brutal
Bolgani, whom they feared fully as much as they feared Numa, the
lion; but with a fear with which was mixed a certain uncanny awe
of the manlike thing to which they attributed supernatural powers.

But when Tarzan lowered his raised head and smiled upon them they
were reassured, though they did not understand. Nor did they ever
fully understand this strange creature who ran through the trees
as quickly as Manu, yet was even more at home upon the ground than
themselves; who was except as to color like unto themselves, yet as
powerful as ten of them, and singlehanded a match for the fiercest
denizens of the fierce jungle.

When the remainder of the warriors had gathered, the hunt was again
taken up and the stalking of the retreating herd once more begun;
but they had covered a bare hundred yards when from behind them,