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King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard DEDICATION This faithful but unpretending record of a remarkable adventure is hereby respectfully dedicated by the narrator, ALLAN QUATERMAIN, to all the big …
I MEET SIR HENRY CURTIS It is a curious thing that at my age—fifty-five last birthday—I should find myself taking up a pen to try to write a history. I wonder what sort of a history it will be when I…
THE LEGEND OF SOLOMON’S MINES “What was it that you heard about my brother’s journey at Bamangwato?” asked Sir Henry, as I paused to fill my pipe before replying to Captain Good. “I heard this,” I a…
UMBOPA ENTERS OUR SERVICE It takes from four to five days, according to the speed of the vessel and the state of the weather, to run up from the Cape to Durban. Sometimes, if the landing is bad at Ea…
AN ELEPHANT HUNT Now I do not propose to narrate at full length all the incidents of our long travel up to Sitanda’s Kraal, near the junction of the Lukanga and Kalukwe Rivers. It was a journey of mo…
OUR MARCH INTO THE DESERT We had killed nine elephants, and it took us two days to cut out the tusks, and having brought them into camp, to bury them carefully in the sand under a large tree, which m…
WATER! WATER! Two hours later, that is, about four o’clock, I woke up, for so soon as the first heavy demand of bodily fatigue had been satisfied, the torturing thirst from which I was suffering asse…
SOLOMON’S ROAD Outside the cavern we halted, feeling rather foolish. “I am going back,” said Sir Henry. “Why?” asked Good. “Because it has struck me that—what we saw—may be my brother.” This was …
WE ENTER KUKUANALAND All that afternoon we travelled along the magnificent roadway, which trended steadily in a north-westerly direction. Infadoos and Scragga walked with us, but their followers marc…
TWALA THE KING It will not be necessary for me to detail at length the incidents of our journey to Loo. It took two full days’ travelling along Solomon’s Great Road, which pursued its even course rig…
