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Back to the Primitive1
As Tarzan struck the water, his first impulse was to swim clear of the ship and possible danger from her propellers2. He knew whom to thank for his present predicament, and as he lay in the sea, just supporting himself by a gentle movement of his hands, his chief emotion was one of chagrin3 that he had been so easily bested by Rokoff.
He lay thus for some time, watching the receding4 and rapidly diminishing lights of the steamer without it ever once occurring to him to call for help. He never had called for help in his life, and so it is not strange that he did not think of it now. Always had he depended upon his own prowess and resourcefulness, nor had there ever been since the days of Kala any to answer an appeal for succor6. When it did occur to him it was too late.
There was, thought Tarzan, a possible one chance in a hundred thousand that he might be picked up, and an even smaller chance that he would reach land, so he determined7 that to combine what slight chances there were, he would swim slowly in the direction of the coast—the ship might have been closer in than he had known.
His strokes were long and easy—it would be many hours before those giant muscles would commence to feel fatigue8. As he swam, guided toward the east by the stars, he noticed that he felt the weight of his shoes, and so he removed them. His trousers went next, and he would have removed his coat at the same time but for the precious papers in its pocket. To assure himself that he still had them he slipped his hand in to feel, but to his consternation9 they were gone.
Now he knew that something more than revenge had prompted Rokoff to pitch him overboard—the Russian had managed to obtain possession of the papers Tarzan had
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