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King Solomon’s Mines
by H. Rider Haggard
Contents
PREPARER’S NOTE
This was typed from a 1907 edition published by Cassell and Company, Limited.
DEDICATION
This faithful but unpretending record
of a remarkable adventure
is hereby respectfully dedicated
by the narrator,
ALLAN QUATERMAIN,
to all the big and little boys
who read it.
AUTHOR’S NOTE
The author ventures to take this opportunity to thank his readers for the kindreception they have accorded to the successive editions of this tale during thelast twelve years. He hopes that in its present form it will fall into thehands of an even wider public, and that in years to come it may continue toafford amusement to those who are still young enough at heart to love a storyof treasure, war, and wild adventure.
Ditchingham,
11 March, 1898.
POST SCRIPTUM
Now, in 1907, on the occasion of the issue of this edition, I can only add howglad I am that my romance should continue to please so many readers.Imagination has been verified by fact; the King Solomon’s Mines I dreamedof have been discovered, and are putting out their gold once more, and,according to the latest reports, their diamonds also; the Kukuanas or, rather,the Matabele, have been tamed by the white man’s bullets, but still thereseem to be many who find pleasure in these simple pages. That they may continueso to do, even to the third and fourth generation, or perhaps longer still,would, I am sure, be the hope of our old and departed friend, AllanQuatermain.
H. Rider Haggard.
Ditchingham,