had not Tarzan insisted that they take what sleep they could,
against the work of the coming day.

At that, sleep was no easy matter, for the women who had lost their
men or their children in the day's massacre and battle made night
hideous with their continued wailing and howling. Finally, however,
Tarzan succeeded in silencing them, on the plea that their noise
would attract the Arabs to their hiding-place, when all would be
slaughtered.

When dawn came Tarzan explained his plan of battle to the warriors,
and without demur one and all agreed that it was the safest and
surest way in which to rid themselves of their unwelcome visitors
and be revenged for the murder of their fellows.

First the women and children, with a guard of some twenty old
warriors and youths, were started southward, to be entirely out
of the zone of danger. They had instructions to erect temporary
shelter and construct a protecting BOMA of thorn bush; for the plan
of campaign which Tarzan had chosen was one which might stretch
out over many days, or even weeks, during which time the warriors
would not return to the new camp.

Two hours after daylight a thin circle of black warriors surrounded
the village. At intervals one was perched high in the branches
of a tree which could overlook the palisade. Presently a Manyuema
within the village fell, pierced by a single arrow. There had been
no sound of attack--none of the hideous war-cries or vainglorious
waving of menacing spears that ordinarily marks the attack of
savages--just a silent messenger of death from out of the silent