Chapter I: Front Matter

[Cover Illustration]

TARZAN AND THE
GOLDEN LION

BY

EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS

AUTHOR OF

THE TARZAN BOOKS,
THE MARS BOOKS,
THE MUCKER, ETC.

ILLUSTRATED BY
J. ALLEN ST. JOHN

GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS NEW YORK

Copyright
Edgar Rice Burroughs
1923
Published March, 1923
_Copyrighted in Great Britain_

_Printed in the United States of America_

CONTENTS

I The Golden Lion
II The Training of Jad-bal-ja
III A Meeting of Mystery
IV What the Footprints Told
V The Fatal Drops
VI Death Steals Behind
VII “You Must Sacrifice Him”
VIII Mystery of the Past
IX The Shaft of Death
X Mad Treachery
XI Strange Incense Burns
XII The Golden Ingots
XIII A Strange, Flat Tower
XIV The Chamber of Horrors
XV The Map of Blood
XVI The Diamond Hoard
XVII The Torture of Fire
XVIII The Spoor of Revenge
XIX A Barbed Shaft Kills
XX The Dead Return
XXI An Escape and a Capture

ILLUSTRATIONS

Standing above him was Jad-bal-ja, the Golden
Lion

He caught the little lion by the scruff of
its neck

Before him was the body of a giant anthropoid

“Upon the third day Tarzan shall die beneath
my knife”

Tarzan saw a white man, bald and old and
shriveled with a long white beard

The Golden Lion with two mighty bounds was
upon the High Priest

Hunting together, the man and the great lion
trod the paths toward home

With a cry of terror the Spaniard dived into
the river

Tarzan and the Golden Lion