ayton was the type of Englishmen that one likes best to associate with the noblest monuments of historic achievement upon a thousand victorious battlefields--a strong, virile man--mentally, morally, and physically (2).
Clayton is also a highly resourceful man, and after the mutiny, he demonstrates this by constructing a place for he and his wife to live: "When completed he had a rather snug little nest, to which he carried their blankets and some of the lighter luggage" (19-20).
The child left behind when the parents die occupies a middle place between civilization and the animal kingdom. He becomes a replacement for Kala's lost child, and though he is described as the White Ape, he is not an ape but a human being who learns from the animals and who has a rapport with him much greater than the fusion Romantics sought between themselves and nature. The child shows a delight in experiencing the different wonders of nature, such as the water as he learns to swim:
Tarzan now swam to shore and clambered quickly upon dry land. The feeling of freshness and exhilaration which the cool waters had imparted to him, filled his little being with grateful surprise, and ever after he lost no opportunity to take a daily plunge in lake or stream or ocean it was possible to do (42).
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