 From the heart of the jungle comes a savage cry of victory. This is Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle. From the black core of dark Africa, land of enchantment, mystery and violence comes one of the most colorful figures of all time. Transcribed from the immortal pen of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan, the bronzed white son of the jungle. And now in the very words of Mr. Burroughs, the story of Tarzan in captivity. Tarzan had left the city of Grutendal several days before. He had traveled both night and day, anxious to be in his jungle once again. And now his goal reached, he rested in the crotch of a tree, slept as peacefully as you or I might sleep on a feather bed. He was completely relaxed because he was confident that even in sleep his sensitive nostrils would catch the scent of an approaching enemy. His acute hearing warned him of the coming of man or beast. And yet Tarzan did not stir as the gray bearded Arab walked noiselessly along the jungle path, climbed the tree where Tarzan rested and crouched on a nearby branch, looking at the jungle man curiously. Allah grants such sleep only to the innocent. Who are you? What do you want? You need not reach for your knife Tarzan. Had I meant you harm I would not have delayed my act until you awakened. Yes, I suppose that's true. As Allah is my witness it is true. The wise need not mask their words in falsehoods when truth conquers citadels. Your words are as strange to me as your actions. Perhaps it's because I am confused. Never before has anyone approached me without giving some hint of his coming. I heard no sound, I got no scent. In every age there lives one who surmounts the obstacles of the seven senses. The seven senses? You speak in the most fantastic riddles. But all riddles have answers if we know where to find them. The answers to those now uppermost in your mind lie with me. You heard me not because I made no sound. You failed to catch my scent because I did not imbue the air with one. Who are you? I am the Grand Wazir of the Caliph of Karadan. You have heard of the Caliph, my master? Very little, for as I understand it his province is surrounded by a wall so high no one can scale it and no one passes through its gate without his bidding. And now you are bid to enter this kingdom. You are invited to be the guest of the spiritual and civil leader of tens of thousands of people. The Caliph is inviting me to be his guest? Why? One does not question the motives of our potentate. Perhaps it was rude of me. Thank your master for me if you will tell him I have just returned to my jungle perhaps in a few months. The invitation is for now. The way you say invitation it sounds like command. The Lord of the jungle may make his own interpretation of my word. I have done so and whether I am invited or commanded to come to Karadan the answer is still the same. I am not leaving my jungle home at the moment. Tarzan is a good servant of the Caliph I attempted to use whatever graciousness Allah has bestowed upon me to persuade you to return. Since my humble efforts have failed I shall have to take other measures to ensure your appearance in our capital. You intend taking me there by force? I am the Grand Wazir. A wizard, huh? The term cannot be so easily translated as I have learned the secrets of moving noiselessly through your jungle of erasing every vestige of my body sent so have I mastered other secrets of nature. No no I shall not have to exert force at least not my physical force. In just a moment we shall return to our story of Tarzan in captivity. A Grand Wazir disappeared as silently as he had come seeming to melt into the darkest regions of the primordial jungle. Tarzan did not know fear in its ordinary sense but his brow was furrowed and his thoughts still remain with the emissary of the Caliph as he made his way cautiously through the jungle and even as his thoughts conjured possible dangers from the Wazir a sleek powerful black panther came toward him but as it sprang Tarzan turned twisted from its path pulled his great hunting knife from its sheath the beast was a clawing spitting fury of destruction as it lunged at Tarzan's throat but Tarzan moved to split second before the cruel fangs could find their mark and with one great stroke his life plunged deep into the flesh beneath a shiny black fur another black panther and another and shoot a whole pack of them but this is mad black panthers in this district in a pack of them they don't travel and back the Grand Wazir. Ah it's well that i am here and that these black panthers do my bidding another moment in you would have gone to your maker. It is true until you spoke there were snarling messengers of death but now they stand like household pets. Yet with another word i can have them rend you limb from limb now do you return with me to Karadan? I seem to have no choice take me to your caliph so i should have accepted your first invitation Grand Wazir. I have never seen such splendor it's something to remember. These halls out of Marble brought over 8,000 miles for the caliph's palace the walls of the throne room are encrusted with more jewels than you could find in the earth we're to have a thousand miners dig for a thousand years. Are we on our way to the throne room now? No the caliph has no desire to have his emirs viceroys or grandees of the realm learn of his business with you we are invited to his chambers. Invited you you still have a strange concept of the meaning of that word. This is the entrance to the caliph's chambers. Tarzan i would humbly offer you a bit of advice do not anger the caliph do not for example depreciate his invitation you have your choice of being treated as an honored guest or as a slave. During the few hours i've been here i have seen how your slaves are treated you witnessed but a few lashes of chastisement there are more ah serious punishments for more serious crimes this is the door to the caliph's sanctum. The Grand Wazir. It is indeed the Grand Wazir your excellency. Enter enter. Favored son of Allah i bring before you the mighty monarch of the jungle he comes into your presence. Now we have no need for such ceremony between friends welcome Tarzan i am extraordinarily happy that you have consented to come to Harada. I am happy to be here i desire to learn more of the people who can train Sheetah the panther to do their bidding. Oh you refer to the extraordinary pets of the Grand Wazir. They are dangerous animals despite his training i do not like having them above their presence in the courtyard surrounding the palace is most useful it keeps those who should not enter on the outside and those who should not leave within. It must be a pretty sight to see your pets prevent the escape of a guest. The Wazir is filled with an extraordinary sense of the dramatic the panthers are kept caged except at night. During the day there is no need for them not with an entire company of fierce Senegalese whose chief delight is in the use of their bayonet. You may save yourself the trouble of going into further particulars about your means of protection i uh i'm quite confident no one could gain access to the palace without consent or leave without permission. Tarzan we have had quite enough of this discussion it is my desire to make you so extraordinarily happy here that you will have no desire to leave my greatest joy will be to heap riches upon you to shower you with the treasures of my realm. If you do the bidding of his excellency really my faithful courtier i'm afraid i cannot conduct a normal conversation with Tarzan in your presence your excellency wishes me to leave no i should discuss my business with Tarzan later i'm now extraordinarily retired and surely Tarzan must be wary from his long trip with your excellency's permission i would discuss this business for which i've been brought here now. I realize your impatience Tarzan but i desire to delay our conversation until another can be present i know you will take my word that that is best all right we shall wait then thank you Tarzan i am sure that our hearts are at tune Allah has sent you to me as a brother he has provided me with a man to whom i can bear my soul you will be the instrument through which i can accomplish my great purpose mihil maktub it is written thus mihil maktub it is written thus strange enigmatic words that meant everything and nothing what business was there to be transacted between Tarzan and the caliph of karadan how was Tarzan to serve as the instrument through which the caliph was to accomplish some great purpose the questions crowded Tarzan's mind as the grand was here guided him through the endless corridors of the extravagant palace by a hundred gold encrusted doors passed a score of watchful sentries through an exquisite inner garden and to the gates of a special wing of the palace a section of the ornate structure even more luxurious than the rest if such a thing were possible your courtes are here Tarzan the slaves will do everything possible to make you comfortable at least my legs will not become cramped in these quarters i think this wing must be as large as the village of the punyas all of this is for my use oh no there are other guests in this wing you see our diplomatic visitors are quartered in the jade wing those we invite here for matters of trade relations are housed in the pearl wing this section is kept for our permanent guests permanent i shall leave you here the slaves have been instructed to do your bidding the caliph will let you know when he desires to communicate with you how will i know where to find i shall be happy to lead you to your chambers what this great hall leads to the sleeping rooms of those of us who reside here and also to the drawing rooms and libraries and other facilities the caliph provides for us i see then you are a guest also yes i am made up you thought me a slave girl well your clothes i have long since adopted the clothing of the harem they are more comfortable and they seem to blend more naturally with the surroundings i have been a guest here for almost 20 years for 20 years but you seem scarcely more than 20 years of age now i was but a child when i came here at the caliph's invitation my father was the ruler of a small province near here and protocol demanded that the invitation be accepted of course while i was here a revolution broke out in my country my father was killed i'm sorry perhaps the revolution was not instigated by the caliph but he did not desire that i should return to my people for he was anxious to annex my country to his and if you return your people might have elected you ruler women do not rule in this land but they sometimes have influence only were i to return now what could i tell them nothing save that i have been treated as a daughter that the caliph has showered me with gifts that every desire has been satisfied almost before the wish found voice i see and what about the other guests here a scientist who parted with many wonderful secrets and was rewarded richly but cannot be permitted to leave lest he also tell his secret to others some of the grand wasier's information comes from him then they meet often also the wasier has many conferences with the others the architect whose genius must design buildings for the caliph alone the goldsmith the lapidary the gunsmith the others but i am not an artisan what what can he want with me i do not know but i know this regardless of what the caliph tells you regardless of how charming he is to you he will never permit your departure even after you have served his purpose it is his inflexible rule and should you refuse to serve him yes what if i should refuse to do what he asks i have been here 20 years many nights have i been sleepless kept awake by the screams and many days have been filled with the horror i have seen in the courtyard the screams the the anguish cries of torment came from those who refuse the bidding of the caliph of caradan in just a moment we shall learn of the caliph's plans for tarzan although tarzan much preferred to eat the meat of freshly killed game and to drink water from a swiftly flowing jungle stream he could not help but admit that the repast served to him in the wing permanent guests was a delicious one an assortment of the orients richest delicacies and most delicate ambrosias and the company was equally delightful skilled artisans painters musicians scientists masters of everything save their own fate and when dinner was over tarzan was escorted to the caliph sanctum once more there to learn his fate pray be seated tarzan i wasn't sure i was permitted to sit in your presence oh you are as yet a stranger here we shall not be stern about matters of custom until you are used to us thank you for your leniency for your future guidance however i might point out that there you must be seated at once when i am seated and should i recline you must recline never must your head be higher than that of the caliph my height makes that difficult you will incline your head to compensate for the extraordinary difference in our stature oh not now there is time for such formal behavior later now i would talk to you as a brother i certainly have no desire to delay our talk but you did say something about waiting until someone else could be present my ibn will be present shortly ibn i'm i'm sorry my knowledge of arabic is very limited oh a thousand pardons ibn means son the amir of caradan will present himself when the time comes amir that means prince precisely and it is of the amir that i would speak to you it is for him that i have called you from your jungle i do not understand oh you will it will be an extraordinarily clear to you in a moment i hope so when you entered my province you observed a great wall so high that no one not even the lord of the jungle can scale it i saw the wall for many generations it has kept us secluded alone free from foreign influences away from the contamination of other peoples yes but we are living in a different world no longer can my people stay apart from others no longer can the walls serve as an effective barrier against progress soon my people will intermarry with others their ideas will become ours their customs will intermingle with those of caradan but what is this to do with the amir and me i was raised in the old manner my speech is that of another age because i was a prince i could not learn to play as other boys i could not attend school i could not learn the ways of the outside world my son must be raised different but you surely don't think of me as a teacher and extraordinary teacher i did much research concerning you i've ascertained that you excel at every form of athletics i've ascertained that you speak a dozen languages that you have knowledge of many subjects i want you to train the amir so that he can be prepared to face a modern word but i am not a teacher that there are many tutors you could engage with my son will be taught by no spectacle wearing mincing school teacher he shall be taught the ways of man by a man i the caliph of caradan have spoken i see i pull the silken cord that will bring my son here of course it is your privilege to turn down this assignment if you are not made happy by my request i am free to refuse your request but of course we give the extraordinary pleasure were you to accept my son something has caused you annoyance such a slave girl she failed to cast her eyes to the ground as i passed she will not repeat the offense i can promise you that it is well amir come close to this stranger in our midst he has tars on lord of the jungle you are a member of nobility my subject number thousands of savages and tens of thousands of animals ah i think you hold a position that entitles you to speak to me without kneeling thank you for the privilege i do not permit most people to converse with me except through an intermediary holds noble rank beloved son i have been persuading tazan to accept the role of your tutor would star be pleased with him as a guide to the workings of the modern word could he make me strong like he is strong he could and i will accept his teachings i desire a greater strength in the wielding of my whip tazan now that you have met the amir will you accept your assignment there are many things i should like to teach the noble prince i do accept such a change in anyone in my life tazan what have you done to the prince i have attempted to teach him humility sympathy and understanding of a few new values and he looks so different why during the few months you have been here he must have grown inches more important than that i've tried to instill in him the idea that the stronger one is the more restraint one must show in the display of strength it is a lesson his father might well learn it's too late to teach the caliph i'm afraid but perhaps the lessons may help his son to exist in a modern world what is the modern world like tazan what kind of clothing do women wear what are the latest fashions and carriages and is it true that now people can speak to one another at some distance by means of some invention but surely the scientists here have told you of the outer world one finds it hard to believe stories that might as well be fairy tales told to children mida i have about completed my mission here and when it is complete i shall be a a permanent guest who proves most impermanent if i can i shall free you also not enjoy one more series of exercises the mind must be developed too i'm here oh here is a slave with some cool drinks we will enjoy them during our french lesson i bow low and profit sweet ambrosia noble army her favorite son right slave in the modern world one does not bow before another but thank you very much for having brought the refreshments blessings upon the noble prince speak well tazan you spoke like a real prince among men what you must learn to speak so in many times for someday you will travel now the lesson vous voulez vous me dire quelque chose de la fête du 14 juillet eh bien c'est la fête nozionale or commemoration de la bestie very good very good tazan tell me what is bestial day really i mean the thought has been praying on my mind yes and well it might for in every land there comes a time when the subjects of an autocratic ruler turned to revolution on bestial day on july 14 1789 their french threw off the yoke of their ruler a few years earlier in 1776 america had escaped from england's tyranny this was the birth of democracy something that is not known here but your excellency tazen's presence threatens a very way of life perhaps you exaggerate grand wasi but i have heard these things with my own ears were they are mere to succeed to your throne he might well do away with a form of government extraordinary extraordinary obviously something must be done about tazan tazen by morning they will come to the wing of permanent guests a dozen slaves will pounce upon you as you sleep you'll be dragged to the dungeons it is time for me to leave now anyway mita my real purpose has been accomplished but the centuries and the panthers i shall have to take my chances do you wish to brave death for liberty no i am not afraid of death but i am unprepared for the world outside i shall wait here and hope that the seeds you have planted namir will someday bear fruit goodbye then mita perhaps i shall be the first permanent guest to make his escape and perhaps not tazen moved softly along the marble corridors he slid quietly through the many gold encrusted doors he leaped across the moat surrounding the palace and managed miraculously to avoid both the centuries and the panthers but the great obstacle was yet to be overcome the high wall that surrounded the city mile after mile tazen searched for some spot that might be scaled but he could find none and then suddenly almost directly at his side a section of the wall swung over you eat tazen here amir what is this how did you get here part of the great woe is hollow and disconnected with the palace by an underground passage well how did you know that i must hurry you can reach a jungle through this opening the grand marcius learned of your departure unless you pass through the wall here you will stand little chance hurry please and i'll be with you goodbye amir and may you someday rule with the love and affection of your people goodbye tazen you did well my son tazen don't even suspect i had anything to do with his escape do you think the grand marzia may yet cause tazen trouble it will be some time before the wasier escapes from the cell he himself designed for those who must be kept in captivity tazen will be safe in his jungle and likewise shall i tazen is truly an extraordinary person yes extraordinary we shall return in just a moment with a word about the next exciting story of tarsen 15 degrees north of the equator in the heart of the anglo-egyptian sudan the blue nile and the white nile meet forming a narrow hook of land strangely shaped like an elephant's the city that lies there has been given the arabic name for elephant's trunk cartoom and it is from cartoom that many many safaris have started in quest of the now almost forgotten gold of the sudan tarsen the transcribed creation of the famous edgar rice burrows is produced by walter white jr prepared for radio by bud lesser with original music by albert glasser this is a comodore production