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H. Rider Haggard
Sir Henry Rider Haggard, (1856-1925) commonly known as H. Rider Haggard was an English author active during the Victorian era. Considered a pioneer of the lost world genre, Haggard was known for his adventure fiction. His work often depicted African settings inspired by the seven years he lived in South Africa with his family. In 1880, Haggard married Marianna Louisa Margitson and together they had four children, one of which followed her father’s footsteps and became an author. Haggard is still widely read today, and is celebrated for his imaginative wit and impact on 19th century adventure literature.
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The Complete Works of
H. RIDER HAGGARD
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H. RIDER HAGGARD
IN 72 VOLUMES
Parts Edition Contents
Ayesha Series
The Rise and Fall of the Zulu Nation Series
The Novels
1, Dawn
2, The Witch’s Head
3, King Solomon’s Mines
4, She
5, Jess
6, Allan Quatermain
7, Mr Meeson’s Will
8, Maiwa’s Revenge
9, Colonel Quaritch, V.C.
10, Cleopatra
11, Allan’s Wife
12, Beatrice
13, The World’s Desire
14, Eric Brighteyes
15, Nada the Lily
16, Montezuma’s Daughter
17, The People of the Mist
18, Joan Haste
19, Heart of the World
20, The Wizard
21, Dr Therne
22, Swallow: A Tale of the Great Trek
23, Elissa
24, Black Heart and White Heart
25, Lysbeth
26, Pearl-Maiden
27, Stella Fregelius
28, The Brethren
29, Ayesha: The Return of She
30, The Way of the Spirit
31, Benita: An African Romance
32, Fair Margaret
33, The Ghost Kings
34, The Yellow God
35, The Lady of Blossholme
36, Morning Star
37, Queen Sheba’s Ring
38, Red Eve
39, Marie
40, Child of Storm
41, The Wanderer’s Necklace
42, The Holy Flower
43, The Ivory Child
44, Finished
45, Love Eternal
46, Moon of Israel
47, When the World Shook
48, The Ancient Allan
49, She and Allan
50, The Virgin of the Sun
51, Wisdom’s Daughter
52, Heu-Heu
53, Queen of the Dawn
54, The Treasure of the Lake
55, Allan and the Ice Gods
56, Mary of Marion Isle
57, Belshazzar
The Short Stories
58, Allan the Hunter
59, A Tale of Three Lions
60, Prince: Another Lion
61, Hunter Quatermain’s Story
62, Long Odds
63, Smith and the Pharoahs
64, Magepa the Buck
65, The Blue Curtains
66, Little Flower
67, Only a Dream
68, Barbara Who Came Back
69, The Mahatma and the Hare
Selected Non-Fiction
70, Cetywayo and His White Neighbors
71, A Winter Pilgrimage
The Biography
72, The Days of My Life
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Maiwa’s Revenge
OR
THE WAR OF THE LITTLE HAND
CONTENTS
PREFACE
I — GOBO STRIKES
II — A MORNING’S SPORT
III — THE FIRST ROUND
IV — THE LAST ROUND
V — THE MESSAGE OF MAIWA
VI — THE PLAN OF CAMPAIGN
VII — THE ATTACK
VIII — MAIWA IS AVENGED
PREFACE
It may be well to state that the incident of the Thing that bites
recorded in this tale is not an effort of the imagination. On the contrary, it is plagiarized.
Mandara, a well-known chief on the east coast of Africa, has such an article, and uses it. In the same way the wicked conduct attributed to Wambe is not without a precedent. T’Chaka, the Zulu Napoleon, never allowed a child of his to live. Indeed he went further, for on discovering that his mother, Unandi, was bringing up one of his sons in secret, like Nero he killed her, and with his own hand.
I — GOBO STRIKES
One day — it was about a week after Allan Quatermain told me his story of the Three Lions,
and of the moving death of Jim-Jim — he and I were walking home together on the termination of a day’s shooting. He owned about two thousand acres of shooting round the place he had bought in Yorkshire, over a hundred of which were wood. It was the second year of his occupation of the estate, and already he had reared a very fair head of pheasants, for he was an all-round sportsman, and as fond of shooting with a shot-gun as with an eight-bore rifle. We were three guns that day, Sir Henry Curtis, Old Quatermain, and myself; but Sir Henry was obliged to leave in the middle of the afternoon in order to meet his agent, and inspect an outlying farm where a new shed was wanted. However, he was coming back to dinner, and going to bring Captain Good with him, for Brayley Hall was not more than two miles from the Grange.
We had met with very fair sport, considering that we were only going through outlying cover for cocks. I think that we had killed twenty-seven, a woodcock and a leash of partridges which we secured out of a driven covey. On our way home there lay a long narrow spinney, which was a very favourite lie
for woodcocks, and generally held a pheasant or two as well.
Well, what do you say?
said old Quatermain, shall we beat through this for a finish?
I assented, and he called to the keeper who was following with a little knot of beaters, and told him to beat the spinney.
Very well, sir,
answered the man, but it’s getting wonderful dark, and the wind’s rising a gale. It will take you all your time to hit a woodcock if the spinney holds one.
You show us the woodcocks, Jeffries,
answered Quatermain quickly, for he never liked being crossed in anything to do with sport, and we will look after shooting them.
The man turned and went rather sulkily. I heard him say to the under-keeper, He’s pretty good, the master is, I’m not saying he isn’t, but if he kills a woodcock in this light and wind, I’m a Dutchman.
I think that Quatermain heard him too, though he said nothing. The wind was rising every minute, and by the time the beat begun it blew big guns. I stood at the right-hand corner of the spinney, which curved round somewhat, and Quatermain stood at the left, about forty paces from me. Presently an old cock pheasant came rocketing over me, looking as though the feathers were being blown out of his tail. I missed him clean with the first barrel, and was never more pleased with myself in my life than when I doubled him up with the second, for the shot was not an easy one. In the faint light I could see Quatermain nodding his head in approval, when through the groaning of the trees I heard the shouts of the beaters, Cock forward, cock to the right.
Then came a whole volley of shouts, Woodcock to the right,
Cock to the left,
Cock over.
I looked up, and presently caught sight of one of the woodcocks coming down the wind upon me like a flash. In that dim light I could not follow all his movements as he zigzagged through the naked tree-tops; indeed I could see him when his wings flitted up. Now he was passing me — bang, and a flick of the wing, I had missed him; bang again. Surely he was down; no, there he went to my left.
Cock to you,
I shouted, stepping forward so as to get Quatermain between me and the faint angry light of the dying day, for I wanted to see if he would wipe my eye.
I knew him to be a wonderful shot, but I thought that cock would puzzle him.
I saw him raise his gun ever so little and bend forward, and at that moment out flashed two woodcocks into the open, the one I had missed to his right, and the other to his left.
At the same time a fresh shout arose of, Woodcock over,
and looking down the spinney I saw a third bird high up in the air, being blown along like a brown and whirling leaf straight over Quatermain’s head. And then followed the prettiest little bit of shooting that I ever saw. The bird to the right was flying low, not ten yards from the line of a hedgerow, and Quatermain took him first because he would become invisible the soonest of any. Indeed, nobody who had not his hawk’s eyes could have seen to shoot at all. But he saw the bird well enough to kill it dead as a stone. Then turning sharply, he pulled on the second bird at about forty-five yards, and over he went. By this time the third woodcock was nearly over him, and flying very high, straight down the wind, a hundred feet up or more, I should say. I saw him glance at it as he opened his gun, threw out the right cartridge and slipped in another, turning round as he did so. By this time the cock was nearly fifty yards away from him, and travelling like a flash. Lifting his gun he fired after it, and, wonderful as the shot was, killed it dead. A tearing gust of wind caught the dead bird, and blew it away like a leaf torn from an oak, so that it fell a hundred and thirty yards off or more.
I say, Quatermain,
I said to him when the beaters were up, do you often do this sort of thing?
Well,
he answered, with a dry smile, "the last time I had to load three shots as quickly as that was at rather larger game. It was at elephants. I killed them all three as