The Dark Heart of Time [antikvár]

1 t, I ;Tarzan did not hear the hunters coming toward him through the rain forest of the African afternoon. Pand the thunder hid any noise they might have made. Also, Usha the wind was flowing in the wrong direction for him to detect their man-sweat odor.He was still unaware of them as he sprang up from the ground and grabbed a liana growing on the side of a colossal tree.The first spear thrown at him nicked the inside of his left ankle. Its steel head rammed into the tree trunk with a loud thunking sound.The second spear slammed into the liana. Though the parasitical plant was thick and tough, it was severed by the keen-edged blade.By then, the ape-man had climbed above the cut end of the Uana. He had speeded up his ascent a fraction of a second after the first spear had thudded into the thick bark. His fingers gripping the sides of the great vine, his body bent and leaning out almost horizontally, his soles against the trunk, he swarmed upwards.Manu the monkey could not have climbed much faster.Just as the severed part of the vine struck the ground, Tarzan reached a projecting part of the trunk, a massive tumor on the side of the forest giant. Kando the ant had1I 'i