Setting and Conflict

The action is set during World War I. While John Clayton, Lord Greystoke (Tarzan) is away from his plantation home in British East Africa, it is destroyed by invading German troops from Tanganyika.

Return and Discovery

On his return he discovers among many burned bodies one that appears to be the corpse of his wife, Jane Porter Clayton.

Additional Casualty

Another fatality is the Waziri warrior Wasimbu, left crucified by the Germans.