In ten days he was quite sound again, except for a terrible,
half-healed scar, which, starting above his left eye ran across
the top of his head, ending at the right ear. It was the mark
left by Terkoz when he had torn the scalp away.
During his convalescence Tarzan tried to fashion a mantle
from the skin of Sabor, which had lain all this time in the
cabin. But he found the hide had dried as stiff as a board,
and as he knew naught of tanning, he was forced to abandon
his cherished plan.
Then he determined to filch what few garments he could
from one of the black men of Mbonga's village, for Tarzan
of the Apes had decided to mark his evolution from the
lower orders in every possible manner, and nothing seemed to
him a more distinguishing badge of manhood than ornaments
and clothing.
To this end, therefore, he collected the various arm and leg
ornaments he had taken from the black warriors who had
succumbed to his swift and silent noose, and donned them all
after the way he had seen them worn.
About his neck hung the golden chain from which depended
the diamond encrusted locket of his mother, the Lady
Alice. At his back was a quiver of arrows slung from a
leathern shoulder belt, another piece of loot from some
vanquished black.
About his waist was a belt of tiny strips of rawhide
fashioned by himself as a support for the home-made scabbard in
which hung his father's hunting knife.
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