the next day, as the group board the ship, a mutiny occurs and tarzan and his friends are captured and detained in the brig, but not before clayton reveals that he came to africa to capture the gorillas and sell them to a zoo. he and his goons then enter the jungle and start capturing the gorillas. fortunately, tarzan and his friends escape with the aid of several animals from the jungle. together, they free the gorillas and retaliate against the poachers. clayton then shoots tarzan, but only grazes his arm. when kerchak comes to the ape man's aid, clayton shoots him, but fatally injures him. he then chases tarzan into the trees where a fight ensues. tarzan briefly holds clayton at gunpoint, before destroying the hunter's rifle. clayton then attacks the ape man with a machete and starts wildly hacking vines, not knowing that one of them is round his neck like a noose. despite tarzan begging him to stop, he cuts the vines and the hunter is quickly hung to death.