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       H. Rider Haggard

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      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664149381

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       I inscribe this history to ANDREW LANG in token of personal regard and of my sincere admiration for his learning and his works

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       INTRODUCTION

       I MY VISITOR

       II THE YEARS ROLL BY

       III THE SHERD OF AMENARTAS

       IV THE SQUALL

       V THE HEAD OF THE ETHIOPIAN

       VI AN EARLY CHRISTIAN CEREMONY

       VII USTANE SINGS

       VIII THE FEAST, AND AFTER!

       IX A LITTLE FOOT

       X SPECULATIONS

       XI THE PLAIN OF KÔR

       XII “SHE”

       XIII AYESHA UNVEILS

       XIV A SOUL IN HELL

       XV AYESHA GIVES JUDGMENT

       XVI THE TOMBS OF KÔR

       XVII THE BALANCE TURNS

       XVIII “GO, WOMAN!”

       XIX “GIVE ME A BLACK GOAT!”

       XX TRIUMPH

       XXI THE DEAD AND LIVING MEET

       XXII JOB HAS A PRESENTIMENT

       XXIII THE TEMPLE OF TRUTH

       XXIV WALKING THE PLANK

       XXV THE SPIRIT OF LIFE

       XXVI WHAT WE SAW

       XXVII WE LEAP

       XXVIII OVER THE MOUNTAIN

      IN EARTH AND SKIE AND SEA

       STRANGE THYNGS THER BE

      [Doggerel couplet from the Sherd of Amenartas]

I inscribe this history to

       ANDREW LANG

       in token of personal regard

       and of

       my sincere admiration

       for his learning and his works

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      ORIGINAL PREPARER’S NOTE

       This text was prepared from an 1888 edition published by Longmans,

       Green, and Co., London. A number of fragments of Greek text, and

       sketches, have been omitted due to the difficulty of representing

       them as plain text. However, small fragments of Greek have been

       transcribed in brackets “{}” using an Oxford English Dictionary

       alphabet table, without diacritical marks.

      PREPARER’S NOTE—UNICODE EDITION

       A number of fragments of Greek and other text, omitted from the

       original posting, have been restored in this Unicode text.

       Sketches, however, have not yet been restored.

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INTRODUCTION

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      In giving to the world the record of what, looked at as an adventure only, is I suppose one of the most wonderful and mysterious experiences ever undergone by mortal men, I feel it incumbent on me to explain what my exact connection with it is. And so I may as well say at once that I am not the narrator but only the editor of this extraordinary history, and then go on to tell how it found its way into my hands.

      Some years ago I, the editor, was stopping with a friend, “vir doctissimus et amicus neus,” at a certain University, which for the purposes of this history we will call Cambridge, and was one day much struck with the appearance of two persons whom I saw going arm-in-arm down the street. One of these gentlemen was I think, without exception, the handsomest young fellow I have ever seen. He was very tall, very broad, and had a look of power and a grace of bearing that seemed as native to him as it is to a wild stag. In addition his face was almost without flaw—a good face as well as a beautiful one, and when he lifted his hat, which he did