Tarzan and the Castaways
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Title: Tarzan and the Castaways
Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Chapter I
IT IS SOMETIMES DIFFICULT to know just where to begin a story. I recall
an acquaintance of mine who, in telling of an accident wherein a neighbor
had fallen down the cellar stairs and broken her leg, would recount all
the marriages and deaths in the family for a generation or two back
before getting to the point of the story.
In the present instance, I might go back to Ah Cuitok Tutul Xiu, the
Mayan, who founded Uxmal in Yucatan in 1004 A.D.; and from him on to Chab
Xib Chac, the Red Man, who destroyed Mayapan in 1451 and murdered the
entire Cocom family of tyrants; but I shall not. I shall simply mention
that Chac Tutul Xiu, a descendant of Ah Cuitok Tutul Xiu, motivated by
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