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Tarzan of the Apes

Chapter VIII · Chapter 8

Chapter 8 of Tarzan of the Apes is here in full — 83 sentences across 17 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

By Edgar Rice Burroughs • Curated US English Learning Edition

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The Tree-top Hunter The morning after the Dum-Dum the tribe started slowly back through the forest toward the coast.

The body of Tublat lay where it had fallen, for the people of Kerchak do not eat their own dead.

The march was but a leisurely search for food.

Cabbage palm and gray plum, pisang and scitamine they found in abundance, with wild pineapple, and occasionally small mammals, birds, eggs, reptiles, and insects.

The nuts they cracked between their powerful jaws, or, if too hard, broke by pounding between stones.

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Chapter VIII Reading 1/16

Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs

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Chapter VIII

Chapter 8

Chapter 8 of Tarzan of the Apes is here in full — 83 sentences across 17 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

The Tree-top Hunter The morning after the Dum-Dum the tribe started slowly back through the forest toward the coast. The body of Tublat lay where it had fallen, for the people of Kerchak do not eat their own dead. The march was but a leisurely search for food. Cabbage palm and gray plum, pisang and scitamine they found in abundance, with wild pineapple, and occasionally small mammals, birds, eggs, reptiles, and insects. The nuts they cracked between their powerful jaws, or, if too hard, broke by pounding between stones.

Tarzan of the Apes

Chapter VIII · Chapter 8

Chapter 8 of Tarzan of the Apes is here in full — 83 sentences across 17 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Reading 1/16 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

Line 1

The Tree-top Hunter The morning after the Dum-Dum the tribe started slowly back through the forest toward the coast.

Line 2

The body of Tublat lay where it had fallen, for the people of Kerchak do not eat their own dead.

Line 3

The march was but a leisurely search for food.

Line 4

Cabbage palm and gray plum, pisang and scitamine they found in abundance, with wild pineapple, and occasionally small mammals, birds, eggs, reptiles, and insects.

Line 5

The nuts they cracked between their powerful jaws, or, if too hard, broke by pounding between stones.

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a

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abundance

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after

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and

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back

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between

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birds

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body

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broke

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but

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by

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Cabbage

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coast

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cracked

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dead

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do

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Dum-Dum

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eat

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eggs

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fallen

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food

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for

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forest

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found

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gray

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had

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hard

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Hunter

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if

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in

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insects

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it

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jaws

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Kerchak

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lay

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leisurely

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mammals

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march

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morning

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not

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nuts

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occasionally

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of

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or

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own

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palm

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people

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pineapple

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pisang

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plum

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pounding

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powerful

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reptiles

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scitamine

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search

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slowly

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small

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started

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stones

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The

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their

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they

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through

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too

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toward

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Tree-top

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tribe

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Tublat

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was

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where

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wild

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with

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From this reading Cabbage palm and gray plum, pisang and scitamine they found in abundance, with wild pineapple, and occasionally small mammals, birds, eggs, reptiles, and insects.

Chapter 8 of Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs holds 83 sentences, grouped into 17 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the public-domain source, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.

What does chapter 8 of Tarzan of the Apes contain?

Chapter 8 holds 83 sentences of Tarzan of the Apes, unabridged, divided into 17 reading sections.

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Vocabulary met early in Tarzan of the Apes

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