# Tarzan the Terrible — Chapters explained

> Chapter companions for Tarzan the Terrible by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

- [The Pithecanthropus](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/tarzan_the_terrible_se/chapters/i-the-pithecanthropus.md): Tarzan, searching for Lady Jane, crosses a forbidding landscape and encounters a strange, tailed humanoid creature (a pithecanthropus). He saves the creature from a lion, and they form a tentative alliance. The pithecant
- [II: “To the Death!”](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/tarzan_the_terrible_se/chapters/ii-to-the-death.md): Tarzan battles a shaggy, tailed creature and then allies with it against a saber-tooth hybrid. He later joins Om-at and Ta-den on a perilous journey through the mountains, where they swear a pact of brotherhood. They arr
- [III: Pan-at-lee](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/tarzan_the_terrible_se/chapters/iii-pan-at-lee.md): Om-at leads Tarzan and Ta-den to the caves of Kor-ul-ja to find Pan-at-lee. After a perilous ascent, they witness a chief-battle (gund-bar) between Om-at and Es-sat. Es-sat cheats by drawing a knife, but Tarzan intervene
- [IV: Tarzan-jad-guru](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/tarzan_the_terrible_se/chapters/iv-tarzan-jad-guru.md): After Es-sat's death, Om-at declares himself gund of Kor-ul-ja and challenges any dissenters. He defies tradition by sparing Tarzan and Ta-den, decreeing that strangers who are brave and good friends shall no longer be s
- [In the Kor-ul-gryf](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/tarzan_the_terrible_se/chapters/v-in-the-kor-ul-gryf.md): Tarzan, having been captured by the Kor-ul-lul, escapes by killing his guard In-tan and taking his head as a trophy. He then tracks Pan-at-lee's scent, discovering she survived her leap into a pool. Meanwhile, Pan-at-lee
- [Tor-o-don](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/tarzan_the_terrible_se/chapters/vi-tor-o-don.md): Tarzan battles a Tor-o-don and is saved by Pan-at-lee, who holds him from falling into a chasm. Afterward, he hunts a deer but is confronted by a gryf, a massive dinosaur-like creature. Pan-at-lee warns that the gryf wil
- [Jungle Craft](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/tarzan_the_terrible_se/chapters/vii-jungle-craft.md): Tarzan devises a plan to lure the gryfs away from Pan-at-lee so she can escape, but finds himself trapped in Kor-ul-gryf as the beasts relentlessly pursue him. Using his jungle instincts and a gamble based on the Tor-o-d
- [A-lur](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/tarzan_the_terrible_se/chapters/viii-a-lur.md): Tarzan enters the Ho-don city of A-lur, posing as a messenger from Jad-ben-Otho. He is initially challenged by a child who notices his lack of a tail, but he uses his taillessness as proof of his divine origin. After con
- [IX: Bloodstained Altars](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/tarzan_the_terrible_se/chapters/ix-bloodstained-altars.md): Tarzan, posing as Dor-ul-Otho, is led through the temple of A-lur by the high priest Lu-don. He witnesses the brutal religious practices of the Ho-don, including human sacrifices on eastern altars. Tarzan challenges Lu-d
- [X: The Forbidden Garden](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/tarzan_the_terrible_se/chapters/x-the-forbidden-garden.md): Tarzan, disguised as the son of Jad-ben-Otho, questions O-lo-a about recent strangers and a possible woman of another race in A-lur. Ko-tan interrupts and leads him away, but later Tarzan intervenes to stop a human sacri
- [The Sentence of Death](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/tarzan_the_terrible_se/chapters/xi-the-sentence-of-death.md): Tarzan is condemned to death by Lu-don, the high priest of A-lur, after being accused of impersonating the son of Jad-ben-Otho. Despite Ja-don's defense and Tarzan's challenge to prove his divinity through divine judgmen
- [The Giant Stranger](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/tarzan_the_terrible_se/chapters/xii-the-giant-stranger.md): Om-at and Ta-den encounter a strange, brown-skinned stranger who is searching for Tarzan. Through sign language, they learn he is a friend. Om-at organizes a raid on the Kor-ul-lul to capture prisoners and learn Tarzan's
- [The Masquerader](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/tarzan_the_terrible_se/chapters/xiii-the-masquerader.md): Tarzan, hiding in the Forbidden Garden, devises a plan to search for his mate in A-lur. He kills a priest, dons his headdress and tail to disguise himself as a priest, and moves through the palace grounds. He is discover
- [XIV: The Temple of the Gryf](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/tarzan_the_terrible_se/chapters/xiv-the-temple-of-the-gryf.md): Tarzan, having donned the mask and tail of a slain priest, infiltrates the Temple of the Gryf at night to rescue Jane. He climbs the building's exterior and enters through a window, only to be separated from Jane by a cu
- [The King Is Dead!](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/tarzan_the_terrible_se/chapters/xv-the-king-is-dead.md): As fighting erupts in the palace, Mo-sar and Bu-lot attempt to kidnap O-lo-a and Jane Clayton. Tarzan escapes the gryf pit and later intervenes to save Pan-at-lee from Bu-lot, killing him. Meanwhile, Ja-don guides Jane t
- [XVI: The Secret Way](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/tarzan_the_terrible_se/chapters/xvi-the-secret-way.md): Tarzan escapes the gryf pool and finds a secret passage into the temple. Overhearing a plot, he disguises himself as a priest and learns that Jane has been taken by Mo-sar. He rescues Pan-at-lee and O-lo-a from an attack
- [By Jad-bal-lul](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/tarzan_the_terrible_se/chapters/xvii-by-jad-bal-lul.md): Mo-sar carries Jane Clayton away from A-lur, transporting her by canoe across lakes and rivers. Jane reflects on her captivity under the Germans and her escape with Obergatz, eventually finding herself alone in the jungl
- [The Lion Pit of Tu-lur](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/tarzan_the_terrible_se/chapters/xviii-the-lion-pit-of-tu-lur.md): Tarzan arrives in Tu-lur demanding the return of Jane from Mo-sar, who claims she escaped during the night. Mo-sar, torn between fear and duplicity, consults with priests of Lu-don and ultimately avoids direct confrontat
- [XIX: Diana of the Jungle](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/tarzan_the_terrible_se/chapters/xix-diana-of-the-jungle.md): Jane makes her first kill, a hare, and successfully creates fire using volcanic glass. She builds a treehouse for safety and encounters the German officer Obergatz, who has gone mad. She threatens to kill him if he enter
- [Silently in the Night](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/tarzan_the_terrible_se/chapters/xx-silently-in-the-night.md): Tarzan is imprisoned in a lion pit in Tu-lur, where he works to escape by chipping away stone from the window bars. Meanwhile, political machinations unfold as Mo-sar and Lu-don vie for power, and Pan-sat delivers a trea
- [XXI: The Maniac](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/tarzan_the_terrible_se/chapters/xxi-the-maniac.md): Tarzan escapes from his prison cell and the palace grounds of Tu-lur, fighting off Ho-don warriors with clubs before fleeing into the forest. He plans to travel to A-lur to reunite with Jane. Meanwhile, a wounded and der
- [A Journey on a Gryf](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/tarzan_the_terrible_se/chapters/xxii-a-journey-on-a-gryf.md): Tarzan and Jane travel together, encountering a gryf which Tarzan subdues and rides. They journey to Ja-lur, where Tarzan is hailed as a god. Plans are made for an attack on A-lur, and Jane is left in Ja-lur for safety.
- [XXIII: Taken Alive](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/tarzan_the_terrible_se/chapters/xxiii-taken-alive.md): Tarzan's plan to infiltrate the temple and attack A-lur with Ja-don and Ta-den goes awry when he rushes ahead of his warriors and is trapped in a dark chamber. Meanwhile, Pan-sat captures Jane from Ja-lur and transports 
- [XXIV: The Messenger of Death](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/tarzan_the_terrible_se/chapters/xxiv-the-messenger-of-death.md): Tarzan is bound and about to be sacrificed by Lu-don and the German Obergatz, who poses as Jad-ben-Otho. Jane Clayton is forced to watch. At the last moment, a Ho-don warrior and a mysterious figure (the Messenger of Dea
- [Home](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/tarzan_the_terrible_se/chapters/xxv-home.md): After the fall of Lu-don and Mo-sar, Ja-don is proclaimed king of Pal-ul-don. Tarzan advises reforming the temples by removing the priests and placing women in charge to administer them with kindness. A feast unites the 
- [Map of Pal-ul-don](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/tarzan_the_terrible_se/chapters/map-of-pal-ul-don.md): A map of Pal-ul-don, copied and redrawn from a rough sketch found among Lord Greystoke's notes of his experiences in the region.
- [Glossary](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/tarzan_the_terrible_se/chapters/glossary.md): An incomplete glossary of Pal-ul-don language and customs, compiled from Lord Greystoke's notes, detailing the naming conventions, word meanings, and descriptions of creatures like the gryf.
- [Endnotes](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/tarzan_the_terrible_se/chapters/endnotes.md): The author provides a linguistic note on the Pal-ul-don language, explaining the plural formation rule and his decision to use the English plural for the word 'gorge' for readability.
- [List of Illustrations](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/tarzan_the_terrible_se/chapters/list-of-illustrations.md): A map of Pal-ul-don is presented, showing a circular land area surrounded by a marshy morass and mountain ranges, with a river flowing from southeast to northwest that opens into three lakes. Four towns—Bu-Lur, Tu-Lur, A

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