Finished

Ditchingham House, Norfolk,
May, 1917.

My dear Roosevelt,—

You are, I know, a lover of old Allan Quatermain, one who understands andappreciates the views of life and the aspirations that underlie and inform hismanifold adventures.

Therefore, since such is your kind wish, in memory of certain hours whereinboth of us found true refreshment and companionship amidst the terribleanxieties of the World’s journey along that bloodstained road by whichalone, so it is decreed, the pure Peak of Freedom must be scaled, I dedicate toyou this tale telling of the events and experiences of my youth.

Your sincere friend,
H. RIDER HAGGARD.

To COLONEL THEODORE ROOSEVELT,
Sagamore Hill, U.S.A.

INTRODUCTION

This book, although it can be read as a separate story, is the third of thetrilogy of which Marie and Child of Storm are the first twoparts. It narrates, through the mouth of Allan Quatermain, the consummation ofthe vengeance of the wizard Zikali, alias The Opener of Roads, or“The-Thing-that-should-never-have-been-born,” upon the royal ZuluHouse of which Senzangacona was the founder and Cetewayo, our enemy in the warof 1879, the last rep

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