King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard (inspirational books for women TXT) 📕

by the moon
Sidonian virgins paid their vows and songs.”

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“Now haste ye, my handmaidens, haste and see
How he sits there and glowers with his head on his knee.”

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This extraordinary and negative way of showing intense respect is by no means unknown among African people, and the result is that if, as is usual, the name in question has a significance, the meaning must be expressed by an idiom or other word. In this way a memory is preserved for generations, or until the new word utterly supplants the old. ↩

It often puzzled all of us to understand how it was possible that Ignosi’s mother, bearing the child with her, should have survived the dangers of her journey across the mountains and the desert, dangers which so nearly proved fatal to ourselves. It has since occurred to me, and I give the idea to the reader for what it is worth, that she must have taken this second route, and wandered out like Hagar into the wilderness. If she did so, there is no longer anything inexplicable about the story, since, as Ignosi himself related, she may well have been picked up by some ostrich hunters before she or the child was exhausted, was led by them to the oasis, and thence by stages to the fertile country, and so on by slow degrees southwards to Zululand. —⁠A. Q. ↩

List of Illustrations

A map showing a trail across the Kalukawe River and Sheba’s Breasts, into the mouth of Treasure Cave.

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King Solomon’s Mines
was published in 1885 by
H. Rider Haggard.

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