# Tarzan the Untamed — Chapters explained

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

- [I: Murder and Pillage](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/tarzan_the_untamed_se/chapters/i-murder-and-pillage.md): Tarzan returns to his farm to find it destroyed and his wife Jane murdered by German askaris under Hauptmann Fritz Schneider. He buries her and his loyal Waziri warriors, then swears a relentless oath of vengeance agains
- [II: The Lion's Cave](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/tarzan_the_untamed_se/chapters/ii-the-lion-s-cave.md): Tarzan continues his pursuit of Hauptmann Schneider, the German officer he holds responsible for his wife's murder. After a rainstorm obliterates the trail, he shelters in a cave that leads to a secluded gulch. He captur
- [In the German Lines](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/tarzan_the_untamed_se/chapters/iii-in-the-german-lines.md): Tarzan, still driven by revenge for his wife's death, struggles with his renunciation of humanity as he finds himself unable to ignore the plight of the British fighting Germans in Africa. He decides to aid the British, 
- [When the Lion Fed](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/tarzan_the_untamed_se/chapters/iv-when-the-lion-fed.md): Tarzan awakens, hunts and kills six wild boars, skins them, and is approached by a lioness. He captures a lion alive by using pigskin bags to cover its head and paws, then tames it and leads it through the jungle. He eva
- [The Golden Locket](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/tarzan_the_untamed_se/chapters/v-the-golden-locket.md): Bertha Kircher, a German spy, is trapped under her dead horse and threatened by Numa the lion. Tarzan intervenes, driving the lion away and freeing her. The chapter also reveals Tarzan's ongoing mission to capture the Ge
- [VI: Vengeance and Mercy](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/tarzan_the_untamed_se/chapters/vi-vengeance-and-mercy.md): Tarzan tracks Bertha Kircher to Wilhelmstal after she steals his locket and boards a train. He confronts Hauptmann Fritz Schneider, the man who killed his mate, and engages in a brutal fight. Despite his desire for venge
- [When Blood Told](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/tarzan_the_untamed_se/chapters/vii-when-blood-told.md): Tarzan, disgusted by his failure to kill Bertha Kircher and haunted by the memory of his murdered mate, decides to leave the British forces and return to the primitive jungle. He crosses a barren, desolate plateau, strug
- [VIII: Tarzan and the Great Apes](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/tarzan_the_untamed_se/chapters/viii-tarzan-and-the-great-apes.md): Tarzan spends three days resting and recuperating before setting out to explore the valley and search for the great apes. He encounters a band of German native deserters led by Usanga, who are holding Bertha Kircher capt
- [Dropped from the Sky](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/tarzan_the_untamed_se/chapters/ix-dropped-from-the-sky.md): Tarzan builds a boma for Bertha Kircher, intending to leave her to survive alone in the jungle. She fears abandonment and death, but Tarzan insists she must learn to fend for herself. He introduces her to the ape tribe, 
- [X: In the Hands of Savages](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/tarzan_the_untamed_se/chapters/x-in-the-hands-of-savages.md): Tarzan, while hunting for game to feed Bertha Kircher, is captured by the Wamabo savages after a branch breaks beneath him. He is taken to the hut where Lieutenant Harold Percy Smith-Oldwick is also held prisoner. As the
- [XI: Finding the Airplane](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/tarzan_the_untamed_se/chapters/xi-finding-the-airplane.md): Tarzan returns from a hunt with a deer, observing Lieutenant Smith-Oldwick and Bertha Kircher from the trees. He reflects on his longing to return to his childhood home and the burden of escorting the two back to civiliz
- [Usanga's Reward](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/tarzan_the_untamed_se/chapters/xiii-usanga-s-reward.md): Tarzan rescues Bertha Kircher from Usanga, who attempts to fly away with her in an airplane. Tarzan climbs a rope to the plane, frees Bertha, and together they subdue Usanga. Afterward, Tarzan guides the pair to safety a
- [XIV: The Black Lion](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/tarzan_the_untamed_se/chapters/xiv-the-black-lion.md): Tarzan discovers a magnificent black lion trapped in a pit by the Wamabo tribe. Moved by admiration and pity, he feeds the starving beast and then devises a plan to free it by removing the stakes that imprison it. After 
- [Mysterious Footprints](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/tarzan_the_untamed_se/chapters/xv-mysterious-footprints.md): After the plane crash-lands in a gorge, Tarzan finds the survivors and forms an unlikely friendship with Numa, the lion he freed. While tracking Numa's path to water, Tarzan discovers mysterious human footprints—shod wit
- [The Night Attack](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/tarzan_the_untamed_se/chapters/xvi-the-night-attack.md): Tarzan, Bertha Kircher, and Lieutenant Smith-Oldwick are surrounded by a pack of lions in the gorge. Tarzan reveals that a man is among the lions, controlling them. After being knocked unconscious, Tarzan awakens to find
- [XVII: The Walled City](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/tarzan_the_untamed_se/chapters/xvii-the-walled-city.md): Tarzan discovers a walled city in an unexplored part of Africa and devises a plan to enter it to rescue Bertha Kircher. He races a black-maned lion across a moonlit clearing, scaling the wall via vines. Inside, he encoun
- [Among the Maniacs](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/tarzan_the_untamed_se/chapters/xviii-among-the-maniacs.md): Bertha Kircher and Lieutenant Smith-Oldwick are captured by a tribe of mentally deranged people after being dragged from a cave where lions attacked them. They are taken through a strange forest to a city inhabited by ma
- [The Queen's Story](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/tarzan_the_untamed_se/chapters/xix-the-queen-s-story.md): Bertha Kircher is taken to the palace and meets an old woman, Xanila, who has been a queen among the Xujans for sixty years. Xanila explains the dangers of the women, the impossibility of escape, and the legend of a Span
- [Came Tarzan](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/tarzan_the_untamed_se/chapters/xx-came-tarzan.md): Tarzan infiltrates a strange city, evades a lion, and fights a guardsman on a rooftop. Meanwhile, Lieutenant Thompson reports finding Smith-Oldwick's plane and a mysterious city to Colonel Capell and General Smuts, who p
- [In the Alcove](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/tarzan_the_untamed_se/chapters/xxi-in-the-alcove.md): Tarzan escapes onto the rooftops of the mad city and attempts to flee through the streets, but is confronted by a warrior. Meanwhile, Lieutenant Smith-Oldwick, wounded and weak, navigates a courtyard filled with lions, c
- [Out of the Niche](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/tarzan_the_untamed_se/chapters/xxii-out-of-the-niche.md): Tarzan and Smith-Oldwick, hiding in a secret niche, observe a mad girl and her lover being served by a slave named Otobu. Tarzan communicates with Otobu in his native tongue, convincing him to help. They emerge, subdue t
- [The Flight from Xuja](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/tarzan_the_untamed_se/chapters/xxiii-the-flight-from-xuja.md): Tarzan, Smith-Oldwick, Bertha Kircher, and Otobu fight their way out of the mad city of Xuja, overcoming guards and lions with the help of Numa. They escape through the gate into the forest, where Tarzan calls to Numa an
- [XXIV: The Tommies](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/tarzan_the_untamed_se/chapters/xxiv-the-tommies.md): Tarzan, Bertha Kircher, Lieutenant Smith-Oldwick, and Otobu are rescued by a British expedition. Bertha is revealed to be the Honorable Patricia Canby, a British intelligence agent, not a German spy. Tarzan declines to r

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