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FINISHED
by H. RIDER HAGGARD

DEDICATION
Ditchingham House, Norfolk, May, 1917.
My dear Roosevelt,--
You are, I know, a lover of old Allan Quatermain, one who understands
and appreciates the views of life and the aspirations that underlie and
inform his manifold adventures.
Therefore, since such is your kind wish, in memory of certain hours
wherein both of us found true refreshment and companionship amidst
the terrible anxieties of the World's journey along that bloodstained
road by which alone, so it is decreed, the pure Peak of Freedom must
be scaled, I dedicate to you this tale telling of the events and

experiences of my youth.
Your sincere friend,
H. RIDER HAGGARD.
To COLONEL THEODORE ROOSEVELT, Sagamore Hill, U.S.A.

CONTENTS:
I. ALLAN QUATERMAIN MEETS ANSCOMBE II. MR.
MARNHAM III. THE HUNTERS HUNTED IV. DOCTOR RODD V.
A GAME OF CARDS VI. MISS HEDA VII. THE STOEP VIII.
RODD'S LAST CARD IX. FLIGHT X. NOMBE XI. ZIKALI XII.
TRAPPED XIII. CETEWAYO XIV. THE VALLEY OF BONES XV.
THE GREAT COUNCIL XVI. WAR XVII. KAATJE BRINGS NEWS
XVIII. ISANDHLWANA XIX. ALLAN AWAKES XX. HEDA'S
TALE XXI. THE KING VISITS ZIKALI XXII. THE MADNESS OF
NOMBE XXIII. THE KRAAL JAZI

INTRODUCTION

This book, although it can be read as a separate story, is the third of the
trilogy of which Marie and Child of Storm are the first two parts. It
narrates, through the mouth of Allan Quatermain, the consummation of
the vengeance of the wizard Zikali, alias The Opener of Roads, or
"The-Thing-that-should-never-have-been-born," upon the royal Zulu
House of which Senzangacona was the founder and Cetewayo, our
enemy in the war of 1879, the last representative who ruled as a king.
Although,