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Allan Quatermain

by H. Rider Haggard

Contents

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I. THE CONSUL’S YARN
CHAPTER II. THE BLACK HAND
CHAPTER III. THE MISSION STATION
CHAPTER IV. ALPHONSE AND HIS ANNETTE
CHAPTER V. UMSLOPOGAAS MAKES A PROMISE
CHAPTER VI. THE NIGHT WEARS ON
CHAPTER VII. A SLAUGHTER GRIM AND GREAT
CHAPTER VIII. ALPHONSE EXPLAINS
CHAPTER IX. INTO THE UNKNOWN
CHAPTER X. THE ROSE OF FIRE
CHAPTER XI. THE FROWNING CITY
CHAPTER XII. THE SISTER QUEENS
CHAPTER XIII. ABOUT THE ZU-VENDI PEOPLE
CHAPTER XIV. THE FLOWER TEMPLE
CHAPTER XV. SORAIS’ SONG
CHAPTER XVI. BEFORE THE STATUE
CHAPTER XVII. THE STORM BREAKS
CHAPTER XVIII. WAR! RED WAR!
CHAPTER XIX. A STRANGE WEDDING
CHAPTER XX. THE BATTLE OF THE PASS
CHAPTER XI. AWAY! AWAY!
CHAPTER XII. HOW UMSLOPOGAAS HELD THE STAIR
CHAPTER XIII. I HAVE SPOKEN
CHAPTER XIV. BY ANOTHER HAND

NOTE BY GEORGE CURTIS, Esq.
AUTHORITIES

I inscribe this book of adventure to my son
ARTHUR JOHN RIDER HAGGARD

in the hope that in days to come he, and many other boys whom I shall neverknow, may, in the acts and thoughts of Allan Quatermain and his companions, asherein recorded, find something to help him and them to reach to what, with SirHenry Curtis, I hold to be the highest rank whereto we can attain—thestate and dignity of English gentlemen.

INTRODUCTION

December 23

“I have just buried my boy, my poor handsome boy of whom I was so proud,and my heart is broken. It is very hard having only one son to lose him thus,but God’s will be done. Who am I that I should complain? The great wheelof Fate rolls on like a Juggernaut, and crushes us all in turn, some soon, somelate—it does not matter when, in the end, it crushes us all. We

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