Henry Rider Haggard was born on June 22, 1856, in Norfolk, England. His parents had money enough ,to make frequent trips to Europe when he was young, and this must have contributed to his unquenchable thirst for travel. When he was nineteen, his father, a lawyer and country gentleman, got him a job working in South。Afric, a as a secretary to the governor of Natal, a British province.

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Allan Quatermain is a hunter. Lions, elephants, antelope. Fearless, he is the best big-game hunter in South Africa. And he is about to embark on the most dangerous hunt of his career.

His new employers, Sir Henry Curtis and Captain John Good, have a map--drawn by a dying Portuguese prospector. It reveals a route across the great desert, past a fearsome range of mountains, to the greatest treasure in all Africa--the lost diamond mines of King Solomon himself!

Inspired by true adventures, King Solomon"s Mines is the unsurpassed classic of a journey into the unknown heart of the Dark Continent.

FOREWORD

INTRODUCTION

l I MEET SIR HENRY "CURTIS

2 THE LEOEND OF SOLOMON’S MINES

3 UMBOPA ENTERS OUR SERVICE

4 AN ELEPHANT HUNT

5 OUR MARCH INTO THE DESERT

6 WATER! WATER!

7 SOLOMON’S ROAD

  WE ENTER KUKUANALAND

9 TWALA THE KING

10 THE WITCH HUNT

11 WE GIVE A SIGN

12 BEFORE THE BATTLE

13 THE ATTACK

14 THE LAST STAND OF THE GREYS

15 GOOD FALLS SICK

16 THE PLACE OF DEATH

17 SOLOMON"S TREASURE CHAMBER

18 WE ABANDON HOPE

19 IGNOSI"S FAREWELL

20 FOUND