I can visualize the entire scene--the apelike Grimaldi men huddled in their filthy caves; the huge pterodactyls soaring through the heavy air upon their bat-like wings; the mighty dinosaurs moving their clumsy hulks beneath the dark shadows of preglacial forests--the dragons which we considered myths until science taught us that they were the true recollections of the first man, handed down through countless ages by word of mouth from father to son out of the unrecorded dawn of humanity."
I purpose assembling this upon the strip of beach described in Bowen's manuscript--the beach where he found the dead body of the apelike man--provided there is sufficient space above high water; otherwise we shall have to assemble it on deck and lower it over the side.
The fellow was short and stout, with an unusually low and degraded countenance and
apelike arms.
Apelike, they essayed to don the apparel themselves, but their ingenuity was not sufficient to the task and so they gave it up.
The black apes were hairless and built thatched huts in their arboreal retreats; they kept domesticated dogs and ruminants, in which respect they were farther advanced than the human beings of Pellucidar; but they appeared to have only a meager language, and sported long,
apelike tails.
A considerable portion of both torso and limbs were covered with short hair, and their physical proportions were in many aspects
apelike, though not so much so as were Ahm's.
Nor, had he questioned himself, is it to be doubted that he would have admitted that he was far more closely allied to these people and their life than to the Parisian friends whose ways,
apelike, he had successfully mimicked for a few short months.
With a final scream of jungle invective and an
apelike grimace at his departing foe, Tarzan continued along his way.
Finally he became enraged and rushing upon her, seized her in his long,
apelike arms.
Yet she could not shake off the instinctive fear that arose in her--man's inheritance from the wild and howling ages when his hairy,
apelike prototype was afraid of the dark and personified the elements into things of fear.
I do not know whether the iron bar was rotted with rust and came away in his hand, or whether he rent it out of the rock with his
apelike strength; but the thing was in his hand, and with his dying energies he swung it over my head, as I knelt there unarmed beside him.
I believe it was quite involuntary, but you know that a grave, much-lined, shaven countenance when distorted in an unusual way is extremely
apelike. It was a surprising sight, and rendered me not only speechless but stopped the progress of my thought completely.