Re: _She_

As a major fan of H. Rider Haggard's as an adolescent, thanks for this.

Allan Quatermain _did_ recur, and often.  I remember him with affection.

He found his way across most of -as-yet-uncreate Africa.  An enjoyable
experience!

Any others of H. Rider Haggard's on ibiblio that you seen?

Wesley Parish

On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 19:42, you wrote:
> If anyone wants to read H. Rider Haggard's _She_, it's available online
> at http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext02/shrhe10.txt .  Here's the
> first use of the phrase in the book.  Our heroes have made it five
> days inland from Zanzibar, and have been captured by a bunch of locals
> speaking barbarous Arabic:
>
> # "Slay not," was the reply. "Four suns since was the word brought to me
> # from '/She-who-must-be-obeyed/,' 'White men come; if white men come,
> # slay them not.' Let them be brought to the house of '/She-who-must-be-
> # obeyed/.' Bring forth the men, and let that which they have with them
> # be brought forth also."
>
> (Her real name is Ayesha.)
>
> There is also a second book about her, _She and Allan_, which also features
> Haggard's recurring hero Alan Quatermain; online at
> http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext04/shlln10.txt .
>
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