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  xxxi The third of Charole’s male adherents had been killed while chasing Dawn.

  xxxii Brachiation: swinging from branch to branch through the trees.

  xxxiii Sexual dimorphism: differences in size and colour between the male and female of a species for the purpose of easy identification.

  xxxiv Due to their similarity to gorillas and to the fact that they occupied the same general terrain, and also because the true status of the Mangani had yet to be established, it is possible that they were responsible for most of the reports of gorillas attacking natives and, supposedly, abducting women for sexual reasons.

  xxxv Melombuki: a Masai moran who has on four separate occasions grasped and held the tail of a hunted lion so that his companions can close in to kill it with their spears.

  xxxvi Tar-Mangani: literally, white folk; from ‘Tar’ meaning ‘white’and ‘Mangani’ meaning ‘The Folk’. Used in this context, it means ‘white man.’

  xxxvii A description of an old time Texas hide and tallow factory’s operation is given in: THE HIDE AND TALLOW MEN.

  xxxviii Deputy Sheriff Bradford Counter, details of whose career are given in J. T. Edson’s Rockabye County series of books about modern Western law enforcement.

  xxxix Told in THE RETURN OF TARZAN by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

  xl Tantor: the Mangani’s name for the elephant.

  xli The ‘forest’ sub-species is classified as Loxodonta Africana Cyclotis.

  xlii Korak: the name, meaning ‘Killer,’ given by the Mangani during the period when he was living with them as is told in: THE SON OF TARZAN by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

  xliii Stay-at-homes: the Telonga hunters’ derogatory name for the non-hunting members of their nation, only used when speaking to another of the hunting fraternity.

  xliv Told in: TARZAN THE UNTAMED by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

  xlv The Brelefs were an early type of Neanderthal man, Homo Neanderthalensis.

  xlvi Kodiak bear: Ursus Middendorffi, Earth’s largest carnivorous land animal.

  xlvii Details of Belle Boyd’s career and capabilities are given in: THE COLT AND THE SABRE, THE REBEL SPY, THE BLOODY BORDER, THE HOODED RIDERS, THE BAD BUNCH, TO ARMS! TO ARMS IN DIXIE!, THE SOUTH WILL RISE AGAIN, THE QUEST FOR BOWIE’S BLADE and THE WHIP AND THE WAR LANCE.

  xlviii Languets: twin steel bars, three foot in length, extending from the lance’s head and, in the case of the Mun-Gatahs’ weapon, fastened to the shaft by six screws a side. They were one reason why Bunduki had not used his bowie knife to deflect the attack.

  xlix Honey-guide bird: one of the Indicatoridae family, some species of which—particularly the black-throated honey-guide, Indicator Indicator—have learned to lead a ratel, honey badger, Mellivora Capensis, or a human being, to a bees’ nest for a share of the honey, grubs and beeswax.

  l Recurved bow: one that is bent back from the straight line at the ends of its limbs.