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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TARZAN OF THE APES ***
+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 78 ***
[Illustration]
@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ edging along until close to Clayton he said, in an undertone:
“What do you mean, my good fellow?” asked Clayton.
“Wy, hasn’t ye seen wats goin’ on? Hasn’t ye ’eard that devil’s spawn
-of a capting an’ is mates knockin’ the bloomin’ lights outen ’arf the
+of a capting an’ ’is mates knockin’ the bloomin’ lights outen ’arf the
crew?
“Two busted ’eads yeste’day, an’ three to-day. Black Michael’s as good
@@ -382,7 +382,7 @@ fairly purple of face, and he shrieked the last words at the top of his
voice, emphasizing his remarks by a loud thumping of the table with one
huge fist, and shaking the other in Clayton’s face.
-Greystoke never turned a hair, but stood eying the excited man with
+Greystoke never turned a hair, but stood eyeing the excited man with
level gaze.
“Captain Billings,” he drawled finally, “if you will pardon my candor,
@@ -2329,7 +2329,7 @@ Standing erect he threw his head far back and looking full into the eye
of the rising moon he beat upon his breast with his great hairy paws
and emitted his fearful roaring shriek.
-One—twice—thrice that terrifying cry rang out across the teeming
+Once—twice—thrice that terrifying cry rang out across the teeming
solitude of that unspeakably quick, yet unthinkably dead, world.
Then, crouching, Kerchak slunk noiselessly around the open circle,
@@ -2401,7 +2401,7 @@ slashed off a more generous portion than he had hoped for, an entire
hairy forearm, where it protruded from beneath the feet of the mighty
Kerchak, who was so busily engaged in perpetuating the royal
prerogative of gluttony that he failed to note the act of
-_lese-majesté_.
+_lèse-majesté_.
So little Tarzan wriggled out from beneath the struggling mass,
clutching his grisly prize close to his breast.
@@ -7420,7 +7420,7 @@ little bower he had erected, motioned her to go within.
For the first time in hours a feeling of fear swept over her, and
Tarzan felt her draw away as though shrinking from him.
-Contact with this girl for half a day had left a very diferent Tarzan
+Contact with this girl for half a day had left a very different Tarzan
from the one on whom the morning’s sun had risen.
Now, in every fiber of his being, heredity spoke louder than training.
@@ -8285,10 +8285,9 @@ from the jungle, the love note signed by Tarzan of the Apes.
Who could be this new suitor? If he were another of the wild denizens
of this terrible forest what might he not do to claim her?
-“Esmeralda! Wake up,” she cried.
-
-“You make me so irritable, sleeping there peacefully when you know
-perfectly well that the world is filled with sorrow.”
+“Esmeralda! Wake up,” she cried. “You make me so irritable, sleeping
+there peacefully when you know perfectly well that the world is filled
+with sorrow.”
“Gaberelle!” screamed Esmeralda, sitting up. “What is it now? A
hipponocerous? Where is he, Miss Jane?”
@@ -9415,7 +9414,7 @@ minutes.
“Well! Tarzan of the Apes, what think you?” asked D’Arnot. “Does not
this little book clear up the mystery of your parentage?
-“Why man, you are Lord Greystoke.”
+“Why, man, you are Lord Greystoke.”
“The book speaks of but one child,” he replied. “Its little skeleton
lay in the crib, where it died crying for nourishment, from the first
@@ -10319,7 +10318,7 @@ where a mighty wall of roaring flames shut out the view.
“Leave my car here. If I find Miss Porter we shall need it. If I don’t,
no one will need it. Do as I say,” as Clayton hesitated, and then they
-saw the lithe figure bound away cross the clearing toward the northwest
+saw the lithe figure bound away across the clearing toward the northwest
where the forest still stood, untouched by flame.
In each rose the unaccountable feeling that a great responsibility had
@@ -10431,9 +10430,8 @@ that and it would be burned out.
“I was nursing D’Arnot. He was badly wounded.”
-“Ah, I knew it!” she exclaimed.
-
-“They said you had gone to join the blacks—that they were your people.”
+“Ah, I knew it!” she exclaimed. “They said you had gone to join the
+blacks—that they were your people.”
He laughed.
@@ -11007,6 +11005,4 @@ FURTHER ADVENTURES OF LORD GREYSTOKE
READ THE RETURN OF TARZAN
-
-
-*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TARZAN OF THE APES ***
+*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 78 ***
diff --git a/78-h/78-h.htm b/78-h/78-h.htm
index 6af1c2e..e67778d 100644
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@@ -1,15 +1,13 @@
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+<!DOCTYPE html>
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-<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" />
-<title>The Project Gutenberg eBook of Tarzan of the Apes, by Edgar Rice Burroughs</title>
-<link rel="coverpage" href="images/cover.jpg" />
-<style type="text/css">
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- margin-right: 20%;
+<meta charset="utf-8">
+<title>Tarzan of the Apes | Project Gutenberg</title>
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h1, h2, h3, h4, h5 {text-align: center; font-style: normal; font-weight:
@@ -76,21 +74,21 @@ a:hover {color:red}
<body>
-<div style='margin-top:2em; margin-bottom:4em'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TARZAN OF THE APES ***</div>
+<div style='text-align:center'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 78 ***</div>
<div class="fig" style="width:55%;">
-<img src="images/cover.jpg" style="width:100%;" alt="[Illustration]" />
+<img src="images/cover.jpg" style="width:100%;" alt="[Illustration]">
</div>
<h1>Tarzan of the Apes</h1>
<h2 class="no-break">by Edgar Rice Burroughs</h2>
-<hr />
+<hr >
<h2>Contents</h2>
-<table summary="" style="">
+<table>
<tr>
<td> <a href="#chap01">CHAPTER I. Out to Sea</a></td>
@@ -208,7 +206,7 @@ a:hover {color:red}
<div class="chapter">
-<h2><a name="chap01"></a>CHAPTER I.<br />
+<h2><a id="chap01"></a>CHAPTER I.<br >
Out to Sea</h2>
<p>
@@ -535,7 +533,7 @@ my word for it, sir. &rsquo;Ell&rsquo;s to pay.&rdquo;
<p>
&ldquo;Wy, hasn&rsquo;t ye seen wats goin&rsquo; on? Hasn&rsquo;t ye
-&rsquo;eard that devil&rsquo;s spawn of a capting an&rsquo; is mates
+&rsquo;eard that devil&rsquo;s spawn of a capting an&rsquo; &rsquo;is mates
knockin&rsquo; the bloomin&rsquo; lights outen &rsquo;arf the crew?
</p>
@@ -673,7 +671,7 @@ shaking the other in Clayton&rsquo;s face.
</p>
<p>
-Greystoke never turned a hair, but stood eying the excited man with level gaze.
+Greystoke never turned a hair, but stood eyeing the excited man with level gaze.
</p>
<p>
@@ -794,7 +792,7 @@ come.&rdquo;
<div class="chapter">
-<h2><a name="chap02"></a>CHAPTER II.<br />
+<h2><a id="chap02"></a>CHAPTER II.<br >
The Savage Home</h2>
<p>
@@ -1359,7 +1357,7 @@ them.
<div class="chapter">
-<h2><a name="chap03"></a>CHAPTER III.<br />
+<h2><a id="chap03"></a>CHAPTER III.<br >
Life and Death</h2>
<p>
@@ -1729,7 +1727,7 @@ save the piteous wailing of the tiny man-child.
<div class="chapter">
-<h2><a name="chap04"></a>CHAPTER IV.<br />
+<h2><a id="chap04"></a>CHAPTER IV.<br >
The Apes</h2>
<p>
@@ -2149,7 +2147,7 @@ a terrible death, and she would take no further chances with this.
<div class="chapter">
-<h2><a name="chap05"></a>CHAPTER V.<br />
+<h2><a id="chap05"></a>CHAPTER V.<br >
The White Ape</h2>
<p>
@@ -2597,7 +2595,7 @@ But that came in later years.
<div class="chapter">
-<h2><a name="chap06"></a>CHAPTER VI.<br />
+<h2><a id="chap06"></a>CHAPTER VI.<br >
Jungle Battles</h2>
<p>
@@ -2704,9 +2702,9 @@ colored pictures&mdash;it was a child&rsquo;s illustrated alphabet&mdash;
</p>
<p class="poem">
-A is for Archer<br />
-    Who shoots with a bow.<br />
-B is for Boy,<br />
+A is for Archer<br >
+    Who shoots with a bow.<br >
+B is for Boy,<br >
    His first name is Joe.
</p>
@@ -2953,7 +2951,7 @@ consequence, reduced to a mere shadow of her former self.
<div class="chapter">
-<h2><a name="chap07"></a>CHAPTER VII.<br />
+<h2><a id="chap07"></a>CHAPTER VII.<br >
The Light of Knowledge</h2>
<p>
@@ -3346,7 +3344,7 @@ fearful roaring shriek.
</p>
<p>
-One&mdash;twice&mdash;thrice that terrifying cry rang out across the teeming
+Once&mdash;twice&mdash;thrice that terrifying cry rang out across the teeming
solitude of that unspeakably quick, yet unthinkably dead, world.
</p>
@@ -3440,7 +3438,7 @@ At last he reached the fast disappearing feast and with his sharp knife slashed
off a more generous portion than he had hoped for, an entire hairy forearm,
where it protruded from beneath the feet of the mighty Kerchak, who was so
busily engaged in perpetuating the royal prerogative of gluttony that he failed
-to note the act of <i>lese-majesté</i>.
+to note the act of <i>lèse-majesté</i>.
</p>
<p>
@@ -3573,7 +3571,7 @@ defiance.
<div class="chapter">
-<h2><a name="chap08"></a>CHAPTER VIII.<br />
+<h2><a id="chap08"></a>CHAPTER VIII.<br >
The Tree-top Hunter</h2>
<p>
@@ -3886,7 +3884,7 @@ Kala fairly danced for joy and pride.
<div class="chapter">
-<h2><a name="chap09"></a>CHAPTER IX.<br />
+<h2><a id="chap09"></a>CHAPTER IX.<br >
Man and Man</h2>
<p>
@@ -4488,7 +4486,7 @@ took to the trees again.
<div class="chapter">
-<h2><a name="chap10"></a>CHAPTER X.<br />
+<h2><a id="chap10"></a>CHAPTER X.<br >
The Fear-Phantom</h2>
<p>
@@ -4770,7 +4768,7 @@ fastness of the forest.
<div class="chapter">
-<h2><a name="chap11"></a>CHAPTER XI.<br />
+<h2><a id="chap11"></a>CHAPTER XI.<br >
&ldquo;King of the Apes&rdquo;</h2>
<p>
@@ -5364,7 +5362,7 @@ And thus came the young Lord Greystoke into the kingship of the Apes.
<div class="chapter">
-<h2><a name="chap12"></a>CHAPTER XII.<br />
+<h2><a id="chap12"></a>CHAPTER XII.<br >
Man&rsquo;s Reason</h2>
<p>
@@ -5820,7 +5818,7 @@ set&mdash;the finding of other white men like himself.
<div class="chapter">
-<h2><a name="chap13"></a>CHAPTER XIII.<br />
+<h2><a id="chap13"></a>CHAPTER XIII.<br >
His Own Kind</h2>
<p>
@@ -6314,10 +6312,10 @@ adjusting his spectacles once more he read aloud:
</p>
<p class="center">
-THIS IS THE HOUSE OF TARZAN, THE<br />
-KILLER OF BEASTS AND MANY BLACK<br />
-MEN. DO NOT HARM THE THINGS WHICH<br />
-ARE TARZAN&rsquo;S. TARZAN WATCHES.<br />
+THIS IS THE HOUSE OF TARZAN, THE<br >
+KILLER OF BEASTS AND MANY BLACK<br >
+MEN. DO NOT HARM THE THINGS WHICH<br >
+ARE TARZAN&rsquo;S. TARZAN WATCHES.<br >
TARZAN OF THE APES.
</p>
@@ -6648,7 +6646,7 @@ Then they sat down upon a bench with their arms about one another, and waited.
<div class="chapter">
-<h2><a name="chap14"></a>CHAPTER XIV.<br />
+<h2><a id="chap14"></a>CHAPTER XIV.<br >
At the Mercy of the Jungle</h2>
<p>
@@ -7196,7 +7194,7 @@ It was on this sight that Jane Porter again opened her eyes.
<div class="chapter">
-<h2><a name="chap15"></a>CHAPTER XV.<br />
+<h2><a id="chap15"></a>CHAPTER XV.<br >
The Forest God</h2>
<p>
@@ -7521,7 +7519,7 @@ bench, sobbing with hysterical laughter.
<div class="chapter">
-<h2><a name="chap16"></a>CHAPTER XVI.<br />
+<h2><a id="chap16"></a>CHAPTER XVI.<br >
&ldquo;Most Remarkable&rdquo;</h2>
<p>
@@ -8106,7 +8104,7 @@ cows.&rdquo;
<div class="chapter">
-<h2><a name="chap17"></a>CHAPTER XVII.<br />
+<h2><a id="chap17"></a>CHAPTER XVII.<br >
Burials</h2>
<p>
@@ -8740,7 +8738,7 @@ noiselessly as a shadow.
<div class="chapter">
-<h2><a name="chap18"></a>CHAPTER XVIII.<br />
+<h2><a id="chap18"></a>CHAPTER XVIII.<br >
The Jungle Toll</h2>
<p>
@@ -8799,7 +8797,7 @@ Here is what he read:
</p>
<p class="center">
-WEST COAST OF AFRICA, ABOUT 10° SOUTH<br />
+WEST COAST OF AFRICA, ABOUT 10° SOUTH<br >
LATITUDE. (So Mr. Clayton says.)
</p>
@@ -9044,7 +9042,7 @@ gathered for me, but will add to this from day to day as things happen.
</p>
<p class="right">
-Lovingly,<br />
+Lovingly,<br >
JANE PORTER.
</p>
@@ -9414,7 +9412,7 @@ us try to sleep a little.&rdquo;
<div class="chapter">
-<h2><a name="chap19"></a>CHAPTER XIX.<br />
+<h2><a id="chap19"></a>CHAPTER XIX.<br >
The Call of the Primitive</h2>
<p>
@@ -10019,7 +10017,7 @@ ill-fated quest into the untracked jungle.
<div class="chapter">
-<h2><a name="chap20"></a>CHAPTER XX.<br />
+<h2><a id="chap20"></a>CHAPTER XX.<br >
Heredity</h2>
<p>
@@ -10470,7 +10468,7 @@ her draw away as though shrinking from him.
</p>
<p>
-Contact with this girl for half a day had left a very diferent Tarzan from the
+Contact with this girl for half a day had left a very different Tarzan from the
one on whom the morning&rsquo;s sun had risen.
</p>
@@ -10767,7 +10765,7 @@ to you.&rdquo;
<div class="chapter">
-<h2><a name="chap21"></a>CHAPTER XXI.<br />
+<h2><a id="chap21"></a>CHAPTER XXI.<br >
The Village of Torture</h2>
<p>
@@ -11151,7 +11149,7 @@ then he lost consciousness.
<div class="chapter">
-<h2><a name="chap22"></a>CHAPTER XXII.<br />
+<h2><a id="chap22"></a>CHAPTER XXII.<br >
The Search Party</h2>
<p>
@@ -11746,9 +11744,6 @@ terrible forest what might he not do to claim her?
<p>
&ldquo;Esmeralda! Wake up,&rdquo; she cried.
-</p>
-
-<p>
&ldquo;You make me so irritable, sleeping there peacefully when you know
perfectly well that the world is filled with sorrow.&rdquo;
</p>
@@ -11789,7 +11784,7 @@ Esmeralda good night.
<div class="chapter">
-<h2><a name="chap23"></a>CHAPTER XXIII.<br />
+<h2><a id="chap23"></a>CHAPTER XXIII.<br >
Brother Men.</h2>
<p>
@@ -11984,10 +11979,10 @@ And Tarzan replied, below:
</p>
<p class="letter">
-Back with her people in the cabin of Tarzan of the Apes.<br />
-    She is not dead then? Where was she? What happened to her?<br />
+Back with her people in the cabin of Tarzan of the Apes.<br >
+    She is not dead then? Where was she? What happened to her?<br >
    She is not dead. She was taken by Terkoz to be his wife; but Tarzan of the Apes
-took her away from Terkoz and killed him before he could harm her.<br />
+took her away from Terkoz and killed him before he could harm her.<br >
    None in all the jungle may face Tarzan of the Apes in battle, and live. I am
Tarzan of the Apes&mdash;mighty fighter.
</p>
@@ -12344,7 +12339,7 @@ you given us the opportunity.
</p>
<p class="right">
-Very respectfully,<br />
+Very respectfully,<br >
WM. CECIL CLAYTON.
</p>
@@ -12385,7 +12380,7 @@ then he pulled the trigger.
<div class="chapter">
-<h2><a name="chap24"></a>CHAPTER XXIV.<br />
+<h2><a id="chap24"></a>CHAPTER XXIV.<br >
Lost Treasure</h2>
<p>
@@ -12859,7 +12854,7 @@ other way, I would have gone into the jungle with you&mdash;forever.&rdquo;
<div class="chapter">
-<h2><a name="chap25"></a>CHAPTER XXV.<br />
+<h2><a id="chap25"></a>CHAPTER XXV.<br >
The Outpost of the World</h2>
<p>
@@ -12989,7 +12984,7 @@ another.
</p>
<p class="right">
-But know that I am always your friend,<br />
+But know that I am always your friend,<br >
JANE PORTER.
</p>
@@ -13447,10 +13442,10 @@ One entry showed an almost hopeful spirit.
<p class="letter">
To-day our little boy is six months old. He is sitting in Alice&rsquo;s lap
-beside the table where I am writing&mdash;a happy, healthy, perfect child.<br />
+beside the table where I am writing&mdash;a happy, healthy, perfect child.<br >
    Somehow, even against all reason, I seem to see him a grown man, taking his
father&rsquo;s place in the world&mdash;the second John Clayton&mdash;and
-bringing added honors to the house of Greystoke.<br />
+bringing added honors to the house of Greystoke.<br >
    There&mdash;as though to give my prophecy the weight of his
endorsement&mdash;he has grabbed my pen in his chubby fists and with his
inkbegrimed little fingers has placed the seal of his tiny finger prints upon
@@ -13473,7 +13468,7 @@ minutes.
</p>
<p>
-&ldquo;Why man, you are Lord Greystoke.&rdquo;
+&ldquo;Why, man, you are Lord Greystoke.&rdquo;
</p>
<p>
@@ -13661,7 +13656,7 @@ and D&rsquo;Arnot so that they might continue their journey properly clothed.
<div class="chapter">
-<h2><a name="chap26"></a>CHAPTER XXVI.<br />
+<h2><a id="chap26"></a>CHAPTER XXVI.<br >
The Height of Civilization</h2>
<p>
@@ -14374,7 +14369,7 @@ solve.&rdquo;
<div class="chapter">
-<h2><a name="chap27"></a>CHAPTER XXVII.<br />
+<h2><a id="chap27"></a>CHAPTER XXVII.<br >
The Giant Again</h2>
<p>
@@ -14880,7 +14875,7 @@ north road.
<p>
&ldquo;Leave my car here. If I find Miss Porter we shall need it. If I
don&rsquo;t, no one will need it. Do as I say,&rdquo; as Clayton hesitated, and
-then they saw the lithe figure bound away cross the clearing toward the
+then they saw the lithe figure bound away across the clearing toward the
northwest where the forest still stood, untouched by flame.
</p>
@@ -15062,9 +15057,6 @@ it would be burned out.
<p>
&ldquo;Ah, I knew it!&rdquo; she exclaimed.
-</p>
-
-<p>
&ldquo;They said you had gone to join the blacks&mdash;that they were your
people.&rdquo;
</p>
@@ -15327,7 +15319,7 @@ from the cottage.
<div class="chapter">
-<h2><a name="chap28"></a>CHAPTER XXVIII.<br />
+<h2><a id="chap28"></a>CHAPTER XXVIII.<br >
Conclusion</h2>
<p>
@@ -15944,7 +15936,7 @@ It read:
</p>
<p class="letter">
-Fingerprints prove you Greystoke. Congratulations.<br />
+Fingerprints prove you Greystoke. Congratulations.<br >
D&rsquo;ARNOT.
</p>
@@ -15986,17 +15978,15 @@ my father was.&rdquo;
</p>
<p class="center">
-FOR THE<br />
-FURTHER ADVENTURES OF LORD GREYSTOKE<br />
+FOR THE<br >
+FURTHER ADVENTURES OF LORD GREYSTOKE<br >
READ THE RETURN OF TARZAN
</p>
</div><!--end chapter-->
-<div style='display:block; margin-top:4em'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TARZAN OF THE APES ***</div>
+<div style='text-align:center'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 78 ***</div>
</body>
</html>
-
-
diff --git a/LICENSE.txt b/LICENSE.txt
index d67a7e0..b5dba15 100644
--- a/LICENSE.txt
+++ b/LICENSE.txt
@@ -9,4 +9,3 @@ No investigation has been made concerning possible copyrights in
jurisdictions other than the United States. Anyone seeking to utilize
this book outside of the United States should confirm copyright
status under the laws that apply to them.
-
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 883c29c..8509a27 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org) public repository for
book #78 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78)
-