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KING SOLOMON'S MINES

by H. RIDER HAGGARD



DEDICATION

This faithful but unpretending record
of a remarkable adventure
is hereby respectfully dedicated
by the narrator,

ALLAN QUATERMAIN,

to all the big and little boys
who read it.



PREPARER'S NOTE

This was typed from a 1907 edition published by Cassell and
Company, Limited.



AUTHOR'S NOTE

The author ventures to take this opportunity to thank his readers
for the kind reception they have accorded to the successive
editions of this tale during the last twelve years. He hopes that
in its present form it will fall into the hands of an even wider
public, and that in years to come it may continue to afford
amusement to those who are still young enough at heart to love a
story of treasure, war, and wild adventure.

Ditchingham,
11 March, 1898.



POST SCRIPTUM

Now, in 1907, on the occasion of the issue of this edition, I can
only add how glad I am that my romance should continue to please
so many readers. Imagination has been verified by fact; the King
Solomon's Mines I dreamed of have been discovered, and are putting
out their gold once more, and, according to the latest reports,
their diamonds also; the Kukuanas or, rather, the Matabele, have