Tarzan and the Ant-men
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Title: Tarzan and the Ant-men
Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Chapter One
In the filth of a dark hut, in the village of Obebe the cannibal, upon
the banks of the Ugogo, Esteban Miranda squatted upon his haunches and
gnawed upon the remnants of a half-cooked fish. About his neck was an
iron slave collar from which a few feet of rusty chain ran to a stout
post set deep in the ground near the low entranceway that let upon the
village street not far from the hut of Obebe himself.
For a year Esteban Miranda had been chained thus, like a dog, and like a
dog he sometimes crawled through the low doorway of his kennel and basked
in the sun outside. Two diversions had he; and only two. One was the
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