Until finally...

...having married the female owner of the discarded garment, he took her and returned back to 'civilisation'.


You could be forgiven for thinking that the story ends terribly, with the girl unable to live in the modern world, and Tim treated with scorn, mistrust and contempt.

But the thing that saved them was the voice of the jungle, which stayed with them and always showed them the right things to do and say.

Now Tim saw the world differently, and was able to gradually communicate some of this to others (who were as sad and as lost as he himself had been).


He taught them the law of the jungle, the real one,
the one that lives on in those stories we hear of Eden,
and of the garden with running streams, where the true believers will end their days...