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KING SOLOMON'S MINES by H. RYDER HAGGARD
Scanned and proofread by Kirk N. Robinson
(kirkr@panix.com or robinsonk@ey.geis.com)
28 Oct 1993
From the Black's Readers Service edition one-volume
edition "The Works Of H. Ryder Haggard" (Roslyn, NY) edition
publication 1928
Originally published 1885
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KING SOLOMON'S MINES
by
H. Ryder Haggard
CHAPTER I--I MEET SIR HENRY CURTIS
IT is a curious thing that at my age--fifty-
five last birthday--I should find myself
taking up a pen to try and write a
history. I wonder what sort of a history it
will be when I have done it, if I ever come
to the end of the trip! I have done a good
many things in my life, which seems a
long one to me, owing to my having
begun so young, perhaps. At an age when
other boys are at school I was earning
m . . .
