If you do not find it credible you will at least be as one with me in acknowledging that it is unique, remarkable, and interesting. The yellow, mildewed pages of the diary of a man long dead, and the records of the Colonial Office dovetail perfectly with the narrative of my convivial host, and so I give you the story as I painstakingly pieced it out from these several various agencies. I do not say the story is true, for I did not witness the happenings which it portrays, but the fact that in the telling of it to you I have taken fictitious names for the principal characters quite sufficiently evidences the sincerity of my own belief that it may be true.I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale. I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other.There be none among you as mighty as Tarzan. Quotes Tarzan of the Apes (1912) Let all respect Tarzan of the Apes and Kala, his mother. 1.6 How I Wrote the Tarzan Books (1929).
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