Tarzan was familiar showed here either the results of a divergent
line of evolution or an unaltered form that had been transmitted
without variation for countless ages.

Too, there were many hybrid strains, not the least interesting
of which to Tarzan was a yellow and black striped lion. Smaller
than the species with which Tarzan was familiar, but still a most
formidable beast, since it possessed in addition to sharp saber-like
canines the disposition of a devil. To Tarzan it presented evidence
that tigers had once roamed the jungles of Africa, possibly giant
saber-tooths of another epoch, and these apparently had crossed with
lions with the resultant terrors that he occasionally encountered
at the present day.

The true lions of this new, Old World differed but little from
those with which he was familiar; in size and conformation they
were almost identical, but instead of shedding the leopard spots
of cubhood, they retained them through life as definitely marked
as those of the leopard.

Two months of effort had revealed no slightest evidence that
she he sought had entered this beautiful yet forbidding land. His
investigation, however, of the cannibal village and his questioning
of other tribes in the neighborhood had convinced him that if Lady
Jane still lived it must be in this direction that he seek her,
since by a process of elimination he had reduced the direction of
her flight to only this possibility. How she had crossed the morass
he could not guess and yet something within seemed to urge upon him
belief that she had crossed it, and that if she still lived it was
here that she must be sought. But this unknown, untraversed wild