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Speaker 1 (00:11):
From the heart of the jungle comes a savage cry
of victory. This is Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle. From
the black core of dark Africa, land of enchantment, mystery
and violence, comes one of the most colorful figures of
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all time. Transcribed from the immortal pen of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan,
the bronze white Sun of the Jungle, and now in
the very words of mister Burrows, the Story of Congo Christmas.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
The village of the Karmiki tribe consisted of a rambling
collection of thatched huts, a lean to where the women
ground corn and cassava, a polabor house and other tribal buildings,
and a spike boma that enclosed the village in a
vain attempt to keep out the terrors of the jungle.
But one building in the Maji stood out from the others.
It was of costly teakwood and mahogany. Its door was
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a burnished copper, and fierce guards.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Stood at its entrance way.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
This was the temple of Miyomocho, moon god of the Karmiki.
A single eye of the moon god, a priceless star
sapphire in the center of its forehead, glowered malevolently in
the near darkness of the jungle dusk as a handsome
young warrior placed a sacrifice of wild fruit at the
feet of his idol.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Great Meyomocho forgave Kedy for what he has done. Kendy
not know what he do to make moon God angry,
But now he not catch fish in his nets, animals
not come to his traps, His cattle run away, and
Kendy not find them. Why you are angry, Great miyomochol.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
I will tell you why Miamocho is angry and of Kamiki,
who the high priest. Miyamocho is not angry with you, Keddi.
He is angry with all of the Kamiki tribe. But
because you are strongest and bravest of the young warriors,
he has selected you to redeem the people of tribe.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
That is why my cattle run away. Why I know
catch fish or animals.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
It was a sign so that you would know you
were the Matula, the chosen one, chosen for what. You
know that Miyamocho has been the god of your people
since the beginning of time.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
The deal.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
You know that many of your tribe have given their
lives to protect the great star Sapphire, that is.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
The eye of the moon God.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
The deal that many, including the father, the grandfather, and
the great grandfather of Miyamocho's high priest, have died for
the moon idol.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Yes, yes, I know all of this high priest.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
And yet with each passing day, more people of tribe
turn from Miumocho and worship a false khan. You mean
those who go to missionary medio. Unless missionary is destroyed,
unless people of Karmiki turned to Yamuko, fish will no
longer come to our streams, Our cattle will all disappear,
our fields will be barren, and our children will die unborn.
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But what is Teddy to do tonight? When the moon
is high, You, the chosen one, must go to the
missionary building. You must find the man Collier, and you
must kill I High Priest of Miyamoko have spoken. On
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the opposite end of the village from the Temple of
Miyamoko stood the small bamboo hut that housed the missionary
school and church that the Reverend Andrew Collier had founded
three years before, a distinct contrast to the imposing structure
of the moon God. The fragile shelter was in a
bad state of disrepair. The Reverend Collier had always meant
to fix the roof and replace the siding, but other
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matters always seemed more important.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Now, although the hour.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Was close to midnight, he continued to work for the
light of a flickering lantern.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
By his side.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
At a long table in what was ordinarily the classroom,
stood Armah, a lovely native girl who was his best pupil.
Is most devout convert.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
You are almost finished for every cardion finished.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
I've hardly begun, Armored. I have another two hundred Christmas
presents to wrap.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
Two hundred, but there are not half that many Christians
in the entire Vinas.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
We'd be very poor Christians if we gave presents only
to those who agreed with our beliefs. Would you hand
as spool of ribbon over there?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Thank you?
Speaker 5 (04:31):
There are yet in any dates until Christmas? Why must
all the packages be wrapped tonight?
Speaker 3 (04:36):
If you can never tell what might come up?
Speaker 2 (04:38):
And I don't want to have old Santa Claus come
along and find me not ready, he says it, Please Armor, it.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
Will be a wonderful cresture. Even though there are still
few of us Christians.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
There are more than there were last year armor and
more last year than the year before that. It must
be thankful for it. I'm reached the next time.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
Oh I look at this one, a tiny cu what.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Yeah, it's a rather acute little dog.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
But I'm afraid there won't be nearly enough toys to
go around. I sent another letter to the Church Foundation,
but they, oh, well, they couldn't possibly have sent all
the things I asked for.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
You were set riven, got you, not exactly, But.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
I keep remembering those Christmases at home. There was always
snow on the ground. No, there was a window in
the choir loft. That was before I was ordained, you see,
And that time I played the organ led the choir
well before the services started. I used to look down
at the people crossing the snowy field on their way
to church. In the vestibule, they'd remove their overcoats and
shake off the snow, and then the big doors at
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the back of the church would open and they start
to pouring. That was my signal to begin. Usually on
Christmas morning, the first hymn I played was Come all
ye faithful, and they were faithful in those days armor
and as he entered the church, you could.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Someone completed night.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Come in. The door of the mission is never locked.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
Katy, Almah, I do not think I find you here
so late. I have been helping the Riven Thai Christmas
tack you.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Go now, Almah, Why why have you come here?
Speaker 5 (06:12):
Kitty?
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Kitty has business with Reverend Collier.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
But you have always refused to come into the missionary,
even when I begged you.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Well, you should have gone hours ago. Amma, Kitty has
business with me. I'm happy I've waited long for this day.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
Go Amah, as you say, Riven, good night, good night, Kitty.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
You look sorry trouble Ketty. May I help you? You
can speak freely. We're alone.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
The deal enemy of me a muckel, great moon, God
of Kamikie. Now we are alone. In just a moment,
we'll return to our exciting story of Congo Christmas. Almost
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a year had passed since Tarzan had visited the village
of the Karmiki. Now he was on his way back
from the city of Andumara, and since the elephant trail
he followed came within a few miles of the Karmiki krawl,
he decided to renew old friendships.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
As he made his way easily.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Through the dense jungle vegetation, Nakima, the tiny monkey, who
was his frequent companion, danced at his side, chattering happolics. Suddenly,
as Tarzan reached the entrance of the village, he stopped
in his tracks. From the temple of Miomoku came the
frenzied chatting of the high priest and his acolytes, and
the low beating of the marty Nagoma, the drum of death.
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Tarzan rushed to the shrine of the Moon God and
attempted to enter, but the powerful hands of the temple
guards reached out for him and massive body a flock
of rap The.
Speaker 6 (07:54):
Beating of the mountain Nakoma has been out, Lord, and
I demand to see your high priest at once. I
do not wish to cause blood shed, for unless you
take your hands from me and step aside so that
I can nderase a jumbo I, Priest of Miomocho, Why
do you come during ritual?
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Tarzan?
Speaker 6 (08:14):
I was on my way to see Nagako, your chief,
when I heard the sounds of the Mari Nagoma. Whose
death are you plotting? Now we do not plot a death.
This is but the vestige of an old custom.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
A custom I know well.
Speaker 6 (08:26):
Your chief has long kept himself neutral in the struggle
between you and others who do not believe in your
fanatic religion.
Speaker 7 (08:31):
But I am not neutral.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Tell me whose death you planned?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
You do not frighten me, Lord of the jungle. Soon
the people of Karmiki will return to the obedience of Miyumoko,
as the moon god was in years gone by, So
will it be again.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
None will dare defy its power. The missionary. It is
death you planned.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
By this time, he is already dead. You are too
late to stem.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
The will of Meyomochoo.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
With Nikila dodging his heels, Tarzan and swiftly through the
slumbering village I head. He could see the light of
a flickering lattern from inside the mission Perhaps the life
of its.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Founder also flickered.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Turrezan reached the ramshackle building at last, and he flung
the door open wide.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
Reverend Colier, you're all right, of course, I'm all right.
Come in close the door after you. Well, if you're busy,
I don't know. Kitty was just leaving.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
The deal was just leaving, Ketty.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
So you were the matula, Yes, matula chosen one chosen
to kill an enemy of Miomko.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Did your nerve.
Speaker 6 (09:34):
Failure, Ketty, or did Reverend Carlia prove stronger than he looks?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Or you're mistake in Tarzan. Ketty made no attempt upon
my life. He he came here to help me tie
these Christmas package and the razor sharp kizu that lies
on the ground.
Speaker 7 (09:48):
It was not meant as an instrument of death.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Ketty was merely using the knife to cut ribbons. I
want you to leave now, Kendy. Neither of us will
say anything about this.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
To any Santo. Reverend Collier, good night, Tarzan.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
You're making a mistake.
Speaker 6 (10:04):
Reverend Keddy failed once, but the fanatical followers of Miomoko
will soon bolster his wavering spirits. And even should he
fail again, there are others to take his place. We
must go to Nagako. He's a just chief and he'll
put new restrictions upon the high Priest, and he'll punish Keeddy.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Punish and will not help him. He's deeply troubled and
needs help. I've failed in my effort to find out
the source of his trouble, but I can never succeed
in my mission until I understand the kamiki and their problems.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
I will spend tomorrow watching Kendy. I'll try to uncover
the source of his trouble, and I'll keep him from
making another attempt on your life. But you must keep
a sharp lookout for others. Death might come from any
direction and at any moment.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
All the next day, Tarzan shadowed Kendy.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
It seemed amazing that the youth was unaware of his
presence for Nakima, who clung to Tarzan's shoulder its chattered shrilly.
But Ketty was lost in the whorld of his own
at that moment. He was tending his small flock of sheep.
But he was so absorbed in thought that a tiny
lamb wandered off unnoticed, And as the lamb reached the
fringe of the jungle numa, the lion drew close, Attracted
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by the scent of a tasty morsel. The lamb stumbled uncertainly,
its tiny ears raised in frightened query. It turned to
rejoin its flock, But now the lion crouched low. Powerful
muscles flexed, and the King of Beasts leaped toward its
helpless prey, and at that exact moment, a bronze white
savage cattot was from the trees, and a shaft of
gleaming steel found its mark. My lamb, Lamb, Carson, Kitty's
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the lamb wander off?
Speaker 7 (11:48):
Where is the lamb?
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Is safe?
Speaker 7 (11:49):
And no fault of your own, Keeddy, not Keeddy's fault.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
His sheep cattle wander off and cannot be found. Fish
not bite on his line or enter his traps. Animals.
I'm not caught by your snares is because me and
Mok who is angry Katy is bewitched, Teddy.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
I've been following you all day, and I can tell
you why. These misfortunes before you why because you have
no time to properly tend your nets are your traps.
I watched you spend the entire morning peering through the
window of the mission. I saw you stand for hours
this afternoon near the hot weather women make bread, and
I observed you following the maidens when they went to
the stream to fetch water.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Tarzan saw Ketty do these things.
Speaker 7 (12:27):
I did, Ketty.
Speaker 6 (12:28):
You're so busy trying to catch glimpses of that girl, Amma,
that you have no time for the other matters. When
she's not within sight, you're busy dreaming of her. Naturally,
your cattle and your sheep wander off unnoticed. The serious
malady from which you suffer is known as love is true.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
That is Kitty's great trouble.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Trouble.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
Well, if you're in love with Amma, why do you
not ask to make marriage with her? Although you've lost
some of your possessions, you surely have enough left for
the marriage price.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
No, dear, have marriage price. But Alma not marry me?
Speaker 7 (13:00):
She doesn't return your love.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Is not that her Her.
Speaker 7 (13:03):
Family doesn't think you would make a good husband.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Family of Amah think will of Ketty.
Speaker 7 (13:07):
Well, then what in the world is it?
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Amah is Christian? I am what she called pagan? Reverend
Collier says she cannot marry me. High Priest of me
Imochl say I cannot marry her Ah.
Speaker 7 (13:20):
So that's the root of all the trouble.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
Ketty gaddya Flockin returned to the village for another day,
has pasted our a range of meeting between Reverend Kyr
and the High Priest of the Moon God. Perhaps I
can solve your problems. I.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
The High Priest of me Imochl, will not leave the
temple to visit the Intrudeau.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
The Reverend Kayer has agreed to come here to discuss
the matter.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
He may enter, but only in the custody of four
of my strongest guy.
Speaker 6 (13:53):
You are to be alone in the temple when he comes.
The gods and the other priests and the sentries are
to be removed.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
You're to meet his equals.
Speaker 6 (13:58):
And why should I agree meat to such ridiculous condition,
Cause your chief, the Mighty Nagako, knows nothing of your
instructions to Keerry. Unless you agree to the meeting as
I have outlined it, you will be told Nagako has
no patience with plans from murder, and.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
You shall feel the fury of his anger and the
power of his authority.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
I agree to your terms. Tell the Reverend Collier to
enter the temple when the hour of midnight has come again.
And so, in the dead of night, the missionary met
with the high priest, and they discussed earnestly the love
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of a pagan youth and a Christian maiden. One hundred
yards from the temple, the people of Karmigi stood motionless intent.
The temple guard stood in readiness, and Tarzan near them
watched anxiously. Even the Kima seemed filled with the importance
of the moment. He dashed off frequently and then returned
to whimper.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
At the feet of his master.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
After what seemed hours of endless waiting, the Reverend Collier
came down the temple steps.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Almah and Kendy rushed, courting.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
You.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Of course I'm safe.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
We had a most friendly discussion of your problem and
the decision.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
The decision Reverend Collier.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Well, I gave ground, and the High Priest gave ground,
though he was forced to consult many scrolls and sacred records.
Finally we arrived at a compromise. You are to study
the teachings of Mimocho for three days, and Kedy is
to study the Word of Jesus. Three days is not
much time to obserber religion. But at the end of
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that time.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
Get away.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 7 (15:45):
High?
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Several times while we spoke, I left the Reverend Callier alone,
and when he was gone, I found that it was
missing the great star Sapphire, the eye of Memo.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Nothing he wouldn't have seen.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
He is good.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
This is some plot of yours.
Speaker 6 (15:59):
You pretended to make a reasonable agreement, and then there
is no agreement. There never will be.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
The man Kalia has defiled our God. Your threats to
tell the chief of my plans do not frighten me.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Tarzan.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Let him know, Let everyone know that I, the High
Priest of me Amoko, will have revenge.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
Every Christian in the village shall be killed, and the
man Kalia.
Speaker 7 (16:18):
Shall be first.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
In just a moment, the strange conclusion of Congo Christmas,
the anger of the high Priest reached the point of hysteria,
and now the disciples of the Amoko searched forward to
overpower the missionaries. But in the instant of the attack,
the pitifully few members of the clerics perished formed the
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protective circle of art. The tiny band wavered before the
savage onslaughter of the multitude. But in that moment Tarzan
jumped the steps of the temple. In his hand he
held his great bowl and a decided hung a quiver
filled with metal tipped arrow.
Speaker 6 (17:06):
The first one who places a hand on a reverend
Kaya will get an arrow.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Through his heart.
Speaker 6 (17:09):
You have pulled back disciples to be a mucho Kalia
must be killed.
Speaker 8 (17:13):
No one be killed.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
Great Chief Nagako, your high priest has accused the Reverend
Kyer of stealing the star sapphire of the moon God.
It must be playing to you that he could be
guilty of no such crime.
Speaker 8 (17:29):
Word he's true can be proved search him giving you.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Cannot be it all right, Harmon, I've been accused of
the theft of this only right that I should be searched.
Speaker 6 (17:41):
As a matter of fact, I insist on it. I
set you kaliah, Chief Nagako. I'm sure the missionary did
not steal a gem. And since no one else entered
or left the temple, it's plain that this is only
a plot to discredit him and the work he's done
among your people for three years.
Speaker 8 (17:55):
No one guilty until proves you. No, you are innocent
until trial has been held.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Well, I appreciate the eye of mi Amoko is not
on him.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
He has passed it to someone else.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
I know he is guilty. Tomorrow, when dawn has come,
we hold trial.
Speaker 8 (18:17):
Nugaco, Chief of all Kamiki has spoken.
Speaker 6 (18:30):
Why why do you not invite me inside the mission
Reverend Conyer?
Speaker 3 (18:34):
We can talk out here.
Speaker 7 (18:36):
There is much talk among the natives.
Speaker 6 (18:39):
Although the High Consul did not find your guilty, there
are those who insist now that you are concealing something.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Why, oh, surely you are not that blind reverend.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
This morning a large safari arrived with many packages for you,
and one crates so large that it took two elephants
to carry. You've taken these things inside, and the door
has remained closed. Can't you see that you're inviting suspicion? Perhaps,
perhaps even Chief Nagako is beginning to believe that you
stole the sapphire in order to pay for these goods
you had delivered.
Speaker 7 (19:05):
I ask you to tell me what the crates contained.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
What It would be easy for you to climb to
that tree over and look down into the mission. There
are still open in many places.
Speaker 6 (19:13):
I will not look in without your invitation, and Nagako
has forbidden the others to do so.
Speaker 7 (19:19):
But even my friendship and.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
The spirit of justice that Nagako holds dear will not
prevail long against thee the growing temper of the Komiki Tarzan.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
For three years I've taught the unvarnished principles of Christianity.
It's not enough if I'm to succeed. I must match
the colorful ceremonies of the native rites.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
These people will not accept the.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Word of the Bible for miracles. They must see them
with their own eyes.
Speaker 7 (19:44):
And you intend to perform a miracle.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
No, that I cannot do.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
But I'm inviting every member of the tribe to come
here tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Perhaps on Christmas Day, I.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Can reveal something here that they will accept as a miracle.
It's my only chance for personal safety, so that I
may continue to fight for a cause that I know
is right.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
It's late, Ketty, you'd best go to Yahima. Perhaps in
the morning we can try to straighten things out.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Is no way straightened now, Katy won't be Christian, but
I pre say never let Kitty go puts curse on marriage.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
Well, things may look different by tomorrow, Ketty. Tomorrow's Christmas,
and I have a feeling things are going to happen.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Teddy cannot wait long inside is sick. He is heart
someone coming. I go, but try help poor Kitty be well.
Speaker 7 (20:46):
Tartan, Oh, well, Kitty, quiet quad Nickima? The hours late?
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Who is it?
Speaker 6 (20:53):
You are alone except for Nakma, my small monkey, who
comes it? It is I the high priest of Mimocho
come to call on me in a simple hat.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
No longer am I proud and haughty, Tarzan. What my
father and my father's father and his father protected the
priceless eye of Miumocho. They gave their lives that the
honor of the moon Idol should not be blemished. But
I have failed. Would that I were dead?
Speaker 7 (21:22):
Your death would not solve the mystery.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
If only some miracle would return the eye of the
moon God, Tarzan, you must help me.
Speaker 6 (21:29):
Perhaps if you were to speak with Reverend Kanyor, he
could help you. He he studied a great deal about
the miracles of the past.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
If only he could perform some miracle for me, I
would be his friend. No longer would I oppose his ways.
If only he could perform a miracle that would restore
the sapphire, the honor of Meumocho would be saved.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
I know no more about the location of the missing
gem than you do, and I am reasonably certain Reverend
Kanye doesn't matter. But he hints at a miracle that
is to happen to morrow. I suggest that you come
to his Christmas party.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Christmas in the Congo. The dawn came early and the
sun was strong. But even before the daylight had come,
the entire village had gathered outside of the tiny mission. Inside,
the Reverend Collier peered out nervously. The church foundation had
been generous, beyond his Fonda's dreams, but everything they'd said
him might be in vain now. As he nodded to Amah,
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the doors and the windows were thrown open. In front
of the strange tempered crowd. He could see the High
Priest Tarzan Nagako, the Aging Chief Keddy, and the others.
They watched him intently as he sat down before a
huge box like structure, a strange affair that had required.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Two elephants to carry.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
And then, as he'd done so long ago, on those
Christmases before he'd been ordained, the man Collier set to
his task. Look, I of Moon God fall from heaven
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and from.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
Nowhere right the high tree.
Speaker 7 (23:15):
It is America.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
The eye of the Moon God dropped from the heaven.
Of the sound of your magic.
Speaker 7 (23:21):
This is a miracle one I didn't plan.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
We are friends now, Reverend Caulia, please make more magic
with the box that plays music. Perhaps it will bring
a charm upon the Christmas wedding.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Ahmah, did you hear them?
Speaker 5 (23:36):
Yes, kitty, I hate.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Littles.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Walk short distance way, Tarzan.
Speaker 7 (23:46):
All right, I got on im.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Oh soon I will go to low sleep.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
I would like to know how miracle happened.
Speaker 6 (23:59):
I do not pretend to wanted to stand miracles, great Chief,
But now that I look back, the only one who
could have slipped into the temple and stolen the jewel.
Speaker 7 (24:08):
Was my tiny Monkina Kima.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
It's also possible that he hid it in the one
place that your people were told to stay away.
Speaker 7 (24:15):
From the roof of the mission house.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Oh the deal. It could be as you see.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
And of course the roof has many holes, and the
vibrations of the organ might easily have shaken out loose.
Speaker 7 (24:28):
But then maybe we could be wrong. Perhaps it was
a miracle.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
All of us connected with the production of Tarzan.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Join and wishing you a very happy Christmas, and we
invite you to remain for a preview of our next story, Tarzan.
It hurts his jungle to confront the complex maze of
a modern city when he travels to Johannesburg, and there
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in a world Sauli into his own, he meets an
enemy more dangerous than the savage beasts of the primordial forest,
more ruthless than the jungle crazed men he's encountered in
the past, more destructive than the angry elements of the Congo.
Tarzan fights, an unseen adversary in the Hand of Death.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Included in our cast were Jack Moyles, G. G. Pearson,
Bob Bruce, and Charlie Lorn. Tarzan, the transcribed creation of
the famous Edgar Rice Burroughs is produced by Walter White Jr.
Prepared for radio by Bud Lesser, with original music by
Albert Gleasser.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
This is a Commodore production.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Listen to our next story, The Hand of Death, another
thrilling episode of the Lord of the Jungle.
From the heart of the jungle comes a savage cry
of victory. This is Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle. From
the black core of dark Africa, land of enchantment, mystery
and violence, comes one of the most colorful figures of
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all time. Transcribed from the immortal pen of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan,
the bronze white Sun of the Jungle, and now in
the very words of mister Burrows, the Story of Congo Christmas.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
The village of the Karmiki tribe consisted of a rambling
collection of thatched huts, a lean to where the women
ground corn and cassava, a polabor house and other tribal buildings,
and a spike boma that enclosed the village in a
vain attempt to keep out the terrors of the jungle.
But one building in the Maji stood out from the others.
It was of costly teakwood and mahogany. Its door was
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a burnished copper, and fierce guards.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Stood at its entrance way.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
This was the temple of Miyomocho, moon god of the Karmiki.
A single eye of the moon god, a priceless star
sapphire in the center of its forehead, glowered malevolently in
the near darkness of the jungle dusk as a handsome
young warrior placed a sacrifice of wild fruit at the
feet of his idol.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Great Meyomocho forgave Kedy for what he has done. Kendy
not know what he do to make moon God angry,
But now he not catch fish in his nets, animals
not come to his traps, His cattle run away, and
Kendy not find them. Why you are angry, Great miyomochol.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
I will tell you why Miamocho is angry and of Kamiki,
who the high priest. Miyamocho is not angry with you, Keddi.
He is angry with all of the Kamiki tribe. But
because you are strongest and bravest of the young warriors,
he has selected you to redeem the people of tribe.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
That is why my cattle run away. Why I know
catch fish or animals.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
It was a sign so that you would know you
were the Matula, the chosen one, chosen for what. You
know that Miyamocho has been the god of your people
since the beginning of time.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
The deal.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
You know that many of your tribe have given their
lives to protect the great star Sapphire, that is.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
The eye of the moon God.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
The deal that many, including the father, the grandfather, and
the great grandfather of Miyamocho's high priest, have died for
the moon idol.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Yes, yes, I know all of this high priest.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
And yet with each passing day, more people of tribe
turn from Miumocho and worship a false khan. You mean
those who go to missionary medio. Unless missionary is destroyed,
unless people of Karmiki turned to Yamuko, fish will no
longer come to our streams, Our cattle will all disappear,
our fields will be barren, and our children will die unborn.
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But what is Teddy to do tonight? When the moon
is high, You, the chosen one, must go to the
missionary building. You must find the man Collier, and you
must kill I High Priest of Miyamoko have spoken. On
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the opposite end of the village from the Temple of
Miyamoko stood the small bamboo hut that housed the missionary
school and church that the Reverend Andrew Collier had founded
three years before, a distinct contrast to the imposing structure
of the moon God. The fragile shelter was in a
bad state of disrepair. The Reverend Collier had always meant
to fix the roof and replace the siding, but other
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matters always seemed more important.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Now, although the hour.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Was close to midnight, he continued to work for the
light of a flickering lantern.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
By his side.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
At a long table in what was ordinarily the classroom,
stood Armah, a lovely native girl who was his best pupil.
Is most devout convert.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
You are almost finished for every cardion finished.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
I've hardly begun, Armored. I have another two hundred Christmas
presents to wrap.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
Two hundred, but there are not half that many Christians
in the entire Vinas.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
We'd be very poor Christians if we gave presents only
to those who agreed with our beliefs. Would you hand
as spool of ribbon over there?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Thank you?
Speaker 5 (04:31):
There are yet in any dates until Christmas? Why must
all the packages be wrapped tonight?
Speaker 3 (04:36):
If you can never tell what might come up?
Speaker 2 (04:38):
And I don't want to have old Santa Claus come
along and find me not ready, he says it, Please Armor, it.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
Will be a wonderful cresture. Even though there are still
few of us Christians.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
There are more than there were last year armor and
more last year than the year before that. It must
be thankful for it. I'm reached the next time.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
Oh I look at this one, a tiny cu what.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Yeah, it's a rather acute little dog.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
But I'm afraid there won't be nearly enough toys to
go around. I sent another letter to the Church Foundation,
but they, oh, well, they couldn't possibly have sent all
the things I asked for.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
You were set riven, got you, not exactly, But.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
I keep remembering those Christmases at home. There was always
snow on the ground. No, there was a window in
the choir loft. That was before I was ordained, you see,
And that time I played the organ led the choir
well before the services started. I used to look down
at the people crossing the snowy field on their way
to church. In the vestibule, they'd remove their overcoats and
shake off the snow, and then the big doors at
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the back of the church would open and they start
to pouring. That was my signal to begin. Usually on
Christmas morning, the first hymn I played was Come all
ye faithful, and they were faithful in those days armor
and as he entered the church, you could.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Someone completed night.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Come in. The door of the mission is never locked.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
Katy, Almah, I do not think I find you here
so late. I have been helping the Riven Thai Christmas
tack you.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Go now, Almah, Why why have you come here?
Speaker 5 (06:12):
Kitty?
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Kitty has business with Reverend Collier.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
But you have always refused to come into the missionary,
even when I begged you.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Well, you should have gone hours ago. Amma, Kitty has
business with me. I'm happy I've waited long for this day.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
Go Amah, as you say, Riven, good night, good night, Kitty.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
You look sorry trouble Ketty. May I help you? You
can speak freely. We're alone.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
The deal enemy of me a muckel, great moon, God
of Kamikie. Now we are alone. In just a moment,
we'll return to our exciting story of Congo Christmas. Almost
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a year had passed since Tarzan had visited the village
of the Karmiki. Now he was on his way back
from the city of Andumara, and since the elephant trail
he followed came within a few miles of the Karmiki krawl,
he decided to renew old friendships.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
As he made his way easily.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Through the dense jungle vegetation, Nakima, the tiny monkey, who
was his frequent companion, danced at his side, chattering happolics. Suddenly,
as Tarzan reached the entrance of the village, he stopped
in his tracks. From the temple of Miomoku came the
frenzied chatting of the high priest and his acolytes, and
the low beating of the marty Nagoma, the drum of death.
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Tarzan rushed to the shrine of the Moon God and
attempted to enter, but the powerful hands of the temple
guards reached out for him and massive body a flock
of rap The.
Speaker 6 (07:54):
Beating of the mountain Nakoma has been out, Lord, and
I demand to see your high priest at once. I
do not wish to cause blood shed, for unless you
take your hands from me and step aside so that
I can nderase a jumbo I, Priest of Miomocho, Why
do you come during ritual?
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Tarzan?
Speaker 6 (08:14):
I was on my way to see Nagako, your chief,
when I heard the sounds of the Mari Nagoma. Whose
death are you plotting? Now we do not plot a death.
This is but the vestige of an old custom.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
A custom I know well.
Speaker 6 (08:26):
Your chief has long kept himself neutral in the struggle
between you and others who do not believe in your
fanatic religion.
Speaker 7 (08:31):
But I am not neutral.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Tell me whose death you planned?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
You do not frighten me, Lord of the jungle. Soon
the people of Karmiki will return to the obedience of Miyumoko,
as the moon god was in years gone by, So
will it be again.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
None will dare defy its power. The missionary. It is
death you planned.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
By this time, he is already dead. You are too
late to stem.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
The will of Meyomochoo.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
With Nikila dodging his heels, Tarzan and swiftly through the
slumbering village I head. He could see the light of
a flickering lattern from inside the mission Perhaps the life
of its.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Founder also flickered.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Turrezan reached the ramshackle building at last, and he flung
the door open wide.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
Reverend Colier, you're all right, of course, I'm all right.
Come in close the door after you. Well, if you're busy,
I don't know. Kitty was just leaving.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
The deal was just leaving, Ketty.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
So you were the matula, Yes, matula chosen one chosen
to kill an enemy of Miomko.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Did your nerve.
Speaker 6 (09:34):
Failure, Ketty, or did Reverend Carlia prove stronger than he looks?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Or you're mistake in Tarzan. Ketty made no attempt upon
my life. He he came here to help me tie
these Christmas package and the razor sharp kizu that lies
on the ground.
Speaker 7 (09:48):
It was not meant as an instrument of death.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Ketty was merely using the knife to cut ribbons. I
want you to leave now, Kendy. Neither of us will
say anything about this.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
To any Santo. Reverend Collier, good night, Tarzan.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
You're making a mistake.
Speaker 6 (10:04):
Reverend Keddy failed once, but the fanatical followers of Miomoko
will soon bolster his wavering spirits. And even should he
fail again, there are others to take his place. We
must go to Nagako. He's a just chief and he'll
put new restrictions upon the high Priest, and he'll punish Keeddy.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Punish and will not help him. He's deeply troubled and
needs help. I've failed in my effort to find out
the source of his trouble, but I can never succeed
in my mission until I understand the kamiki and their problems.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
I will spend tomorrow watching Kendy. I'll try to uncover
the source of his trouble, and I'll keep him from
making another attempt on your life. But you must keep
a sharp lookout for others. Death might come from any
direction and at any moment.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
All the next day, Tarzan shadowed Kendy.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
It seemed amazing that the youth was unaware of his
presence for Nakima, who clung to Tarzan's shoulder its chattered shrilly.
But Ketty was lost in the whorld of his own
at that moment. He was tending his small flock of sheep.
But he was so absorbed in thought that a tiny
lamb wandered off unnoticed, And as the lamb reached the
fringe of the jungle numa, the lion drew close, Attracted
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by the scent of a tasty morsel. The lamb stumbled uncertainly,
its tiny ears raised in frightened query. It turned to
rejoin its flock, But now the lion crouched low. Powerful
muscles flexed, and the King of Beasts leaped toward its
helpless prey, and at that exact moment, a bronze white
savage cattot was from the trees, and a shaft of
gleaming steel found its mark. My lamb, Lamb, Carson, Kitty's
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the lamb wander off?
Speaker 7 (11:48):
Where is the lamb?
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Is safe?
Speaker 7 (11:49):
And no fault of your own, Keeddy, not Keeddy's fault.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
His sheep cattle wander off and cannot be found. Fish
not bite on his line or enter his traps. Animals.
I'm not caught by your snares is because me and
Mok who is angry Katy is bewitched, Teddy.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
I've been following you all day, and I can tell
you why. These misfortunes before you why because you have
no time to properly tend your nets are your traps.
I watched you spend the entire morning peering through the
window of the mission. I saw you stand for hours
this afternoon near the hot weather women make bread, and
I observed you following the maidens when they went to
the stream to fetch water.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Tarzan saw Ketty do these things.
Speaker 7 (12:27):
I did, Ketty.
Speaker 6 (12:28):
You're so busy trying to catch glimpses of that girl, Amma,
that you have no time for the other matters. When
she's not within sight, you're busy dreaming of her. Naturally,
your cattle and your sheep wander off unnoticed. The serious
malady from which you suffer is known as love is true.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
That is Kitty's great trouble.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Trouble.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
Well, if you're in love with Amma, why do you
not ask to make marriage with her? Although you've lost
some of your possessions, you surely have enough left for
the marriage price.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
No, dear, have marriage price. But Alma not marry me?
Speaker 7 (13:00):
She doesn't return your love.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Is not that her Her.
Speaker 7 (13:03):
Family doesn't think you would make a good husband.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Family of Amah think will of Ketty.
Speaker 7 (13:07):
Well, then what in the world is it?
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Amah is Christian? I am what she called pagan? Reverend
Collier says she cannot marry me. High Priest of me
Imochl say I cannot marry her Ah.
Speaker 7 (13:20):
So that's the root of all the trouble.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
Ketty gaddya Flockin returned to the village for another day,
has pasted our a range of meeting between Reverend Kyr
and the High Priest of the Moon God. Perhaps I
can solve your problems. I.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
The High Priest of me Imochl, will not leave the
temple to visit the Intrudeau.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
The Reverend Kayer has agreed to come here to discuss
the matter.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
He may enter, but only in the custody of four
of my strongest guy.
Speaker 6 (13:53):
You are to be alone in the temple when he comes.
The gods and the other priests and the sentries are
to be removed.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
You're to meet his equals.
Speaker 6 (13:58):
And why should I agree meat to such ridiculous condition,
Cause your chief, the Mighty Nagako, knows nothing of your
instructions to Keerry. Unless you agree to the meeting as
I have outlined it, you will be told Nagako has
no patience with plans from murder, and.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
You shall feel the fury of his anger and the
power of his authority.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
I agree to your terms. Tell the Reverend Collier to
enter the temple when the hour of midnight has come again.
And so, in the dead of night, the missionary met
with the high priest, and they discussed earnestly the love
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of a pagan youth and a Christian maiden. One hundred
yards from the temple, the people of Karmigi stood motionless intent.
The temple guard stood in readiness, and Tarzan near them
watched anxiously. Even the Kima seemed filled with the importance
of the moment. He dashed off frequently and then returned
to whimper.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
At the feet of his master.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
After what seemed hours of endless waiting, the Reverend Collier
came down the temple steps.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Almah and Kendy rushed, courting.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
You.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Of course I'm safe.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
We had a most friendly discussion of your problem and
the decision.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
The decision Reverend Collier.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Well, I gave ground, and the High Priest gave ground,
though he was forced to consult many scrolls and sacred records.
Finally we arrived at a compromise. You are to study
the teachings of Mimocho for three days, and Kedy is
to study the Word of Jesus. Three days is not
much time to obserber religion. But at the end of
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that time.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
Get away.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 7 (15:45):
High?
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Several times while we spoke, I left the Reverend Callier alone,
and when he was gone, I found that it was
missing the great star Sapphire, the eye of Memo.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Nothing he wouldn't have seen.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
He is good.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
This is some plot of yours.
Speaker 6 (15:59):
You pretended to make a reasonable agreement, and then there
is no agreement. There never will be.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
The man Kalia has defiled our God. Your threats to
tell the chief of my plans do not frighten me.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Tarzan.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Let him know, Let everyone know that I, the High
Priest of me Amoko, will have revenge.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
Every Christian in the village shall be killed, and the
man Kalia.
Speaker 7 (16:18):
Shall be first.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
In just a moment, the strange conclusion of Congo Christmas,
the anger of the high Priest reached the point of hysteria,
and now the disciples of the Amoko searched forward to
overpower the missionaries. But in the instant of the attack,
the pitifully few members of the clerics perished formed the
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protective circle of art. The tiny band wavered before the
savage onslaughter of the multitude. But in that moment Tarzan
jumped the steps of the temple. In his hand he
held his great bowl and a decided hung a quiver
filled with metal tipped arrow.
Speaker 6 (17:06):
The first one who places a hand on a reverend
Kaya will get an arrow.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Through his heart.
Speaker 6 (17:09):
You have pulled back disciples to be a mucho Kalia
must be killed.
Speaker 8 (17:13):
No one be killed.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
Great Chief Nagako, your high priest has accused the Reverend
Kyer of stealing the star sapphire of the moon God.
It must be playing to you that he could be
guilty of no such crime.
Speaker 8 (17:29):
Word he's true can be proved search him giving you.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Cannot be it all right, Harmon, I've been accused of
the theft of this only right that I should be searched.
Speaker 6 (17:41):
As a matter of fact, I insist on it. I
set you kaliah, Chief Nagako. I'm sure the missionary did
not steal a gem. And since no one else entered
or left the temple, it's plain that this is only
a plot to discredit him and the work he's done
among your people for three years.
Speaker 8 (17:55):
No one guilty until proves you. No, you are innocent
until trial has been held.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Well, I appreciate the eye of mi Amoko is not
on him.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
He has passed it to someone else.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
I know he is guilty. Tomorrow, when dawn has come,
we hold trial.
Speaker 8 (18:17):
Nugaco, Chief of all Kamiki has spoken.
Speaker 6 (18:30):
Why why do you not invite me inside the mission
Reverend Conyer?
Speaker 3 (18:34):
We can talk out here.
Speaker 7 (18:36):
There is much talk among the natives.
Speaker 6 (18:39):
Although the High Consul did not find your guilty, there
are those who insist now that you are concealing something.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Why, oh, surely you are not that blind reverend.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
This morning a large safari arrived with many packages for you,
and one crates so large that it took two elephants
to carry. You've taken these things inside, and the door
has remained closed. Can't you see that you're inviting suspicion? Perhaps,
perhaps even Chief Nagako is beginning to believe that you
stole the sapphire in order to pay for these goods
you had delivered.
Speaker 7 (19:05):
I ask you to tell me what the crates contained.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
What It would be easy for you to climb to
that tree over and look down into the mission. There
are still open in many places.
Speaker 6 (19:13):
I will not look in without your invitation, and Nagako
has forbidden the others to do so.
Speaker 7 (19:19):
But even my friendship and.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
The spirit of justice that Nagako holds dear will not
prevail long against thee the growing temper of the Komiki Tarzan.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
For three years I've taught the unvarnished principles of Christianity.
It's not enough if I'm to succeed. I must match
the colorful ceremonies of the native rites.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
These people will not accept the.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Word of the Bible for miracles. They must see them
with their own eyes.
Speaker 7 (19:44):
And you intend to perform a miracle.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
No, that I cannot do.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
But I'm inviting every member of the tribe to come
here tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Perhaps on Christmas Day, I.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Can reveal something here that they will accept as a miracle.
It's my only chance for personal safety, so that I
may continue to fight for a cause that I know
is right.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
It's late, Ketty, you'd best go to Yahima. Perhaps in
the morning we can try to straighten things out.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Is no way straightened now, Katy won't be Christian, but
I pre say never let Kitty go puts curse on marriage.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
Well, things may look different by tomorrow, Ketty. Tomorrow's Christmas,
and I have a feeling things are going to happen.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Teddy cannot wait long inside is sick. He is heart
someone coming. I go, but try help poor Kitty be well.
Speaker 7 (20:46):
Tartan, Oh, well, Kitty, quiet quad Nickima? The hours late?
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Who is it?
Speaker 6 (20:53):
You are alone except for Nakma, my small monkey, who
comes it? It is I the high priest of Mimocho
come to call on me in a simple hat.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
No longer am I proud and haughty, Tarzan. What my
father and my father's father and his father protected the
priceless eye of Miumocho. They gave their lives that the
honor of the moon Idol should not be blemished. But
I have failed. Would that I were dead?
Speaker 7 (21:22):
Your death would not solve the mystery.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
If only some miracle would return the eye of the
moon God, Tarzan, you must help me.
Speaker 6 (21:29):
Perhaps if you were to speak with Reverend Kanyor, he
could help you. He he studied a great deal about
the miracles of the past.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
If only he could perform some miracle for me, I
would be his friend. No longer would I oppose his ways.
If only he could perform a miracle that would restore
the sapphire, the honor of Meumocho would be saved.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
I know no more about the location of the missing
gem than you do, and I am reasonably certain Reverend
Kanye doesn't matter. But he hints at a miracle that
is to happen to morrow. I suggest that you come
to his Christmas party.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Christmas in the Congo. The dawn came early and the
sun was strong. But even before the daylight had come,
the entire village had gathered outside of the tiny mission. Inside,
the Reverend Collier peered out nervously. The church foundation had
been generous, beyond his Fonda's dreams, but everything they'd said
him might be in vain now. As he nodded to Amah,
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the doors and the windows were thrown open. In front
of the strange tempered crowd. He could see the High
Priest Tarzan Nagako, the Aging Chief Keddy, and the others.
They watched him intently as he sat down before a
huge box like structure, a strange affair that had required.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Two elephants to carry.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
And then, as he'd done so long ago, on those
Christmases before he'd been ordained, the man Collier set to
his task. Look, I of Moon God fall from heaven
(23:10):
and from.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
Nowhere right the high tree.
Speaker 7 (23:15):
It is America.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
The eye of the Moon God dropped from the heaven.
Of the sound of your magic.
Speaker 7 (23:21):
This is a miracle one I didn't plan.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
We are friends now, Reverend Caulia, please make more magic
with the box that plays music. Perhaps it will bring
a charm upon the Christmas wedding.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Ahmah, did you hear them?
Speaker 5 (23:36):
Yes, kitty, I hate.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Littles.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Walk short distance way, Tarzan.
Speaker 7 (23:46):
All right, I got on im.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Oh soon I will go to low sleep.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
I would like to know how miracle happened.
Speaker 6 (23:59):
I do not pretend to wanted to stand miracles, great Chief,
But now that I look back, the only one who
could have slipped into the temple and stolen the jewel.
Speaker 7 (24:08):
Was my tiny Monkina Kima.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
It's also possible that he hid it in the one
place that your people were told to stay away.
Speaker 7 (24:15):
From the roof of the mission house.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Oh the deal. It could be as you see.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
And of course the roof has many holes, and the
vibrations of the organ might easily have shaken out loose.
Speaker 7 (24:28):
But then maybe we could be wrong. Perhaps it was
a miracle.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
All of us connected with the production of Tarzan.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Join and wishing you a very happy Christmas, and we
invite you to remain for a preview of our next story, Tarzan.
It hurts his jungle to confront the complex maze of
a modern city when he travels to Johannesburg, and there
(25:05):
in a world Sauli into his own, he meets an
enemy more dangerous than the savage beasts of the primordial forest,
more ruthless than the jungle crazed men he's encountered in
the past, more destructive than the angry elements of the Congo.
Tarzan fights, an unseen adversary in the Hand of Death.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Included in our cast were Jack Moyles, G. G. Pearson,
Bob Bruce, and Charlie Lorn. Tarzan, the transcribed creation of
the famous Edgar Rice Burroughs is produced by Walter White Jr.
Prepared for radio by Bud Lesser, with original music by
Albert Gleasser.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
This is a Commodore production.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Listen to our next story, The Hand of Death, another
thrilling episode of the Lord of the Jungle.
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