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"
Why
,
"
he
said
,
"
is
n't
it
Hunter
Quatermain
,
eh
,
and
Good
too
?
Hold
on
a
minute
,
you
fellows
,
I
am
getting
dizzy
again
.
It
is
all
so
very
strange
,
and
,
when
a
man
has
ceased
to
hope
,
so
very
happy
!
"
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*
*
That
evening
,
over
the
camp
fire
,
George
Curtis
told
us
his
story
,
which
,
in
its
way
,
was
almost
as
eventful
as
our
own
,
and
,
put
shortly
,
amounted
to
this
.
A
little
less
than
two
years
before
,
he
had
started
from
Sitanda
's
Kraal
,
to
try
to
reach
Suliman
's
Berg
.
As
for
the
note
I
had
sent
him
by
Jim
,
that
worthy
lost
it
,
and
he
had
never
heard
of
it
till
today
.
But
,
acting
upon
information
he
had
received
from
the
natives
,
he
headed
not
for
Sheba
's
Breasts
,
but
for
the
ladder-like
descent
of
the
mountains
down
which
we
had
just
come
,
which
is
clearly
a
better
route
than
that
marked
out
in
old
Dom
Silvestra
's
plan
.
In
the
desert
he
and
Jim
had
suffered
great
hardships
,
but
finally
they
reached
this
oasis
,
where
a
terrible
accident
befell
George
Curtis
.
On
the
day
of
their
arrival
he
was
sitting
by
the
stream
,
and
Jim
was
extracting
the
honey
from
the
nest
of
a
stingless
bee
which
is
to
be
found
in
the
desert
,
on
the
top
of
a
bank
immediately
above
him
.
In
so
doing
he
loosened
a
great
boulder
of
rock
,
which
fell
upon
George
Curtis
's
right
leg
,
crushing
it
frightfully
.
From
that
day
he
had
been
so
lame
that
he
found
it
impossible
to
go
either
forward
or
back
,
and
had
preferred
to
take
the
chances
of
dying
in
the
oasis
to
the
certainty
of
perishing
in
the
desert
.
As
for
food
,
however
,
they
got
on
pretty
well
,
for
they
had
a
good
supply
of
ammunition
,
and
the
oasis
was
frequented
,
especially
at
night
,
by
large
quantities
of
game
,
which
came
thither
for
water
.
These
they
shot
,
or
trapped
in
pitfalls
,
using
the
flesh
for
food
,
and
,
after
their
clothes
wore
out
,
the
hides
for
clothing
.
"
And
so
,
"
George
Curtis
ended
,
"
we
have
lived
for
nearly
two
years
,
like
a
second
Robinson
Crusoe
and
his
man
Friday
,
hoping
against
hope
that
some
natives
might
come
here
to
help
us
away
,
but
none
have
come
.
Only
last
night
we
settled
that
Jim
should
leave
me
,
and
try
to
reach
Sitanda
's
Kraal
to
get
assistance
.
He
was
to
go
tomorrow
,
but
I
had
little
hope
of
ever
seeing
him
back
again
.
And
now
you
,
of
all
people
in
the
world
,
you
,
who
,
as
I
fancied
,
had
long
ago
forgotten
all
about
me
,
and
were
living
comfortably
in
old
England
,
turn
up
in
a
promiscuous
way
and
find
me
where
you
least
expected
.
It
is
the
most
wonderful
thing
that
I
have
ever
heard
of
,
and
the
most
merciful
too
.
"
Then
Sir
Henry
set
to
work
,
and
told
him
the
main
facts
of
our
adventures
,
sitting
till
late
into
the
night
to
do
it
.
"
By
Jove
!
"
said
George
Curtis
,
when
I
showed
him
some
of
the
diamonds
:
"
well
,
at
least
you
have
got
something
for
your
pains
,
besides
my
worthless
self
.
"
Sir
Henry
laughed
.
"
They
belong
to
Quatermain
and
Good
.
It
was
a
part
of
the
bargain
that
they
should
divide
any
spoils
there
might
be
.
"
This
remark
set
me
thinking
,
and
having
spoken
to
Good
,
I
told
Sir
Henry
that
it
was
our
joint
wish
that
he
should
take
a
third
portion
of
the
diamonds
,
or
,
if
he
would
not
,
that
his
share
should
be
handed
to
his
brother
,
who
had
suffered
even
more
than
ourselves
on
the
chance
of
getting
them
.
Finally
,
we
prevailed
upon
him
to
consent
to
this
arrangement
,
but
George
Curtis
did
not
know
of
it
until
some
time
afterwards
.
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*
*
