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H. Rider Haggard: Allan Quatermain (unabridged)

read by Bill Homewood

  • Release Date: 4th Sep 2012
  • Catalogue No: NA0088
  • Label: Naxos AudioBooks
  • Series: Complete Classics
  • Length: 12 hours 8 minutes

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Henry Rider Haggard: Allan Quatermain (Unabridged)

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Allan Quatermain

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Introduction

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In the centre of the room, however…

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And so the balance sways and the story runs…

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Chapter 1: The Consul's Yarn

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'Listen, old fellow,' went on Sir Henry…

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'Well, where are you gentlemen steering for?' asked our friend…

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The tall man (who among his own people was commonly…)

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I shook my head at him.

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Chapter 2: The Black Hand

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After the first day Good succeeded, with the help of some cloth…

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'Hulloa!' holloaed Sir Henry from the other boat.

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Just then, too, although all the other sounds of the forest had ceased…

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Chapter 3: The Mission Station

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In half an hour more we were once again making fair progress…

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Crossing over a plank and through a very narrow opening in the wall…

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When dinner was over we lit our pipes…

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Chapter 4: Alphonse and His Annette

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Just as I returned his axe to Umslopogaas…

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As Umslopogaas, savage old Zulu that he was…

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Alphonse stopped weeping, and began to rub his back.

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Chapter 5: Umslopogaas Makes a Promise

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For a moment Umslopogaas looked up from his sharpening…

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Shortly after this, the people whom Mr. Mackenzie had sent out…

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The door was unbarred.

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Meanwhile I had been thinking rapidly, as one does in emergencies…

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'Dearest Father and Mother,' ran the note…

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Chapter 6: The Night Wears On

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'It is well,' went on Mr. Mackenzie.

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It so happened that Mr. Mackenzie had in his little store…

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It was now nearly one o'clock in the morning…

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Chapter 7: A Slaughter Grim and Great

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Presently Umslopogaas, who was a few paces ahead of me…

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When I was two-thirds up I halted…

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I soon got the magazine of the repeater filled again with cartridges…

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I myself did not go into the melee…

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Chapter 8: Alphonse Explains

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At the kraal entrance the scene was a strange one.

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It struck me as an odd thing that a girl who could find the nerve…

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Accordingly we brought him to the tree where he had hidden…

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Chapter 9: Into the Unknown

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We also promised to give him wages…

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Thence we proceeded a distance of about a hundred and fifty miles…

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As we were paddling leisurely along…

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Up went the swans, circling ever higher till at last they were mere specks…

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Chapter 10: The Rose of Fire

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'Well, let us hope for the best and prepare ourselves for the worst,'…

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On we rushed towards this pillar of fire…

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'My word,' called out Good, who was on shore the first…

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'I say, you fellows, let's get out of this or we shall all go off our heads.'

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Chapter 11: The Frowning City

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Just then, however, the others woke up…

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So we hailed back in English, French…

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Good did not much like this allusion to his fat…

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Curiosity now began to overcome the fear of the onlookers…

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On the brow of this precipice stood a great building…

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Chapter 12: The Sister Queens

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On we went up the first flight of one hundred and twenty steps…

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In the exact centre of the hall was a solid mass of black marble…

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I have seen beautiful women in my day…

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'Oh, my word!' thought I to myself…

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When they were all gone she bent forward…

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Chapter 13: About the Zu-Vendi People

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The best bred people in the country are, as I think I have said…

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Zu-Vendis has had its king-makers as well as England…

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The law of the country is, on the whole, mild and just…

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And now comes a question which I find some difficulty in answering.

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Chapter 14: The Flower Temple

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As soon as we were seated the driver called out…

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Overcome at so awe-inspiring a sight, the vast loveliness…

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As we appeared there was a murmur through the vast crowd…

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There is silence upon the face of the Earth and the waters thereof!

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As he spoke a wonderful and a beautiful thing happened.

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Then Sorais made answer in her deep quiet tones…

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Chapter 15: Sorais' Song

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On other days we would pay visits to the country seats…

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Next day we were much more lively…

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That night, when in fear and trembling we attended the royal…

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Another source of imminent danger to us was the rising envy…

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Chapter 16: Before the Statue

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'Thou sayest thou dost love me,' she said in a low voice…

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I found the old warrior leaning on Inkosi-kaas as usual…

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This reading and signing of the laws took a long time…

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Chapter 17: The Storm Breaks

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From the direction of the quarters of the maids of honour…

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At last, whether it was her gaze, or the perfume in her hair…

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I gained audience of the Queen without trouble.

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Here we heard from Alphonse, who was deeply aggrieved…

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Chapter 18: War! Red War!

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This incident was unimportant enough in itself…

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Just then Sir Henry joined us, and Good arrived, too…

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Throughout this long and eloquent address Good had been…

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Up she rose and, descending from the throne…

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'And I tell ye strangers - all save Bougwan…'

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Chapter 19: A Strange Wedding

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Now, as it happened, Agon had been hurried away that morning…

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It may, perhaps, be remembered…

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Well, that night Good and I messed as I have said in solitary grandeur…

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Chapter 20: The Battle of the Pass

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The main body of the army reached the neck about dinner-time…

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And at last up came the red sun…

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And so, notwithstanding all that we could do, the enemy drew nearer…

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Just then we saw the smaller bodies of cavalry stationed on…

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Chapter 21: Away! Away!

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Leaving Umslopogaas to hold the horses, I hobbled to the spring…

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On, clattering through the sleeping streets.

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Chapter 22: How Umslopogaas Held the Stair

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Just then, to my astonishment, the Zu-Vendi officer Kara…

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For a moment the black-bearded Nasta stood with bowed face…

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A gasp of wonder and astonishment rose from all those who…

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I laughed, or rather tried to.

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Chapter 23: I Have Spoken

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'Methinks my sister the Queen hath forgotten the chief count…'

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And I thank thee, my Lord Incubu…

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It is a week since I wrote the above, and now I take up my pen…

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Chapter 24: By Another Hand

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'At last,' he gasped, with an attempt at a smile…

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Since then things have gone very well with us.

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Note by George Curtis Esq.

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