Allan Quatermain
First Published 1887
ALLAN QUATERMAIN
Being an Account of His
FURTHER ADVENTURES AND
DISCOVERIES
In Company With
SIR HENRY CURTIS, BART.,
COMMANDER JOHN GOOD, R.N.
AND ONE UMSLOPOGAAS
By
H. RIDER HAGGARD
EX AFRICA SEMPER ALIQUID NOVI
With Twenty Illustrations by Charles
H.M. Kerr
And a Portrait
DEDICATION
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 NEVER KNOW, MAY,
IN THE ACTS AND THOUGHTS OF
ALLAN QUATERMAIN AND HIS
COMPANIONS, AS HEREIN
RECORDED, FIND SOMETHING TO
HELP HIM AND THEM TO REACH TO
WHAT, WITH SIR HENRY CURTIS,
I HOLD TO BE THE HIGHEST RANK
WHERETO WE CAN ATTAIN—
THE STATE AND DIGNITY OF
ENGLISH GENTLEMEN
CONTENTS
Introduction
I.
