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"
Well
,
Mr.
Quatermain
,
as
time
went
on
I
became
more
and
more
anxious
to
find
out
if
my
brother
was
alive
or
dead
,
and
if
alive
to
get
him
home
again
.
I
set
enquiries
on
foot
,
and
your
letter
was
one
of
the
results
.
So
far
as
it
went
it
was
satisfactory
,
for
it
showed
that
till
lately
George
was
alive
,
but
it
did
not
go
far
enough
.
So
,
to
cut
a
long
story
short
,
I
made
up
my
mind
to
come
out
and
look
for
him
myself
,
and
Captain
Good
was
so
kind
as
to
come
with
me
.
"
"
Yes
,
"
said
the
captain
;
"
nothing
else
to
do
,
you
see
.
Turned
out
by
my
Lords
of
the
Admiralty
to
starve
on
half
pay
.
And
now
perhaps
,
sir
,
you
will
tell
us
what
you
know
or
have
heard
of
the
gentleman
called
Neville
.
"
"
What
was
it
that
you
heard
about
my
brother
's
journey
at
Bamangwato
?
"
asked
Sir
Henry
,
as
I
paused
to
fill
my
pipe
before
replying
to
Captain
Good
.
"
I
heard
this
,
"
I
answered
,
"
and
I
have
never
mentioned
it
to
a
soul
till
today
.
I
heard
that
he
was
starting
for
Solomon
's
Mines
.
"
"
Solomon
's
Mines
?
"
ejaculated
both
my
hearers
at
once
.
"
Where
are
they
?
"
"
I
do
n't
know
,
"
I
said
;
"
I
know
where
they
are
said
to
be
.
Once
I
saw
the
peaks
of
the
mountains
that
border
them
,
but
there
were
a
hundred
and
thirty
miles
of
desert
between
me
and
them
,
and
I
am
not
aware
that
any
white
man
ever
got
across
it
save
one
.
But
perhaps
the
best
thing
I
can
do
is
to
tell
you
the
legend
of
Solomon
's
Mines
as
I
know
it
,
you
passing
your
word
not
to
reveal
anything
I
tell
you
without
my
permission
.
Do
you
agree
to
that
?
I
have
my
reasons
for
asking
.
"
Sir
Henry
nodded
,
and
Captain
Good
replied
,
"
Certainly
,
certainly
.
"
"
Well
,
"
I
began
,
"
as
you
may
guess
,
generally
speaking
,
elephant
hunters
are
a
rough
set
of
men
,
who
do
not
trouble
themselves
with
much
beyond
the
facts
of
life
and
the
ways
of
Kafirs
.
But
here
and
there
you
meet
a
man
who
takes
the
trouble
to
collect
traditions
from
the
natives
,
and
tries
to
make
out
a
little
piece
of
the
history
of
this
dark
land
.
It
was
such
a
man
as
this
who
first
told
me
the
legend
of
Solomon
's
Mines
,
now
a
matter
of
nearly
thirty
years
ago
.
That
was
when
I
was
on
my
first
elephant
hunt
in
the
Matalebe
country
.
His
name
was
Evans
,
and
he
was
killed
the
following
year
,
poor
fellow
,
by
a
wounded
buffalo
,
and
lies
buried
near
the
Zambesi
Falls
.
I
was
telling
Evans
one
night
,
I
remember
,
of
some
wonderful
workings
I
had
found
whilst
hunting
koodoo
and
eland
in
what
is
now
the
Lydenburg
district
of
the
Transvaal
.
I
see
they
have
come
across
these
workings
again
lately
in
prospecting
for
gold
,
but
I
knew
of
them
years
ago
.
There
is
a
great
wide
wagon
road
cut
out
of
the
solid
rock
,
and
leading
to
the
mouth
of
the
working
or
gallery
.
Inside
the
mouth
of
this
gallery
are
stacks
of
gold
quartz
piled
up
ready
for
roasting
,
which
shows
that
the
workers
,
whoever
they
were
,
must
have
left
in
a
hurry
.
Also
,
about
twenty
paces
in
,
the
gallery
is
built
across
,
and
a
beautiful
bit
of
masonry
it
is
.
"
"
'
Ay
,
'
said
Evans
,
'
but
I
will
spin
you
a
queerer
yarn
than
that
'
;
and
he
went
on
to
tell
me
how
he
had
found
in
the
far
interior
a
ruined
city
,
which
he
believed
to
be
the
Ophir
of
the
Bible
,
and
,
by
the
way
,
other
more
learned
men
have
said
the
same
long
since
poor
Evans
's
time
.
I
was
,
I
remember
,
listening
open-eared
to
all
these
wonders
,
for
I
was
young
at
the
time
,
and
this
story
of
an
ancient
civilisation
and
of
the
treasures
which
those
old
Jewish
or
Phoenician
adventurers
used
to
extract
from
a
country
long
since
lapsed
into
the
darkest
barbarism
took
a
great
hold
upon
my
imagination
,
when
suddenly
he
said
to
me
,
'
Lad
,
did
you
ever
hear
of
the
Suliman
Mountains
up
to
the
north-west
of
the
Mushakulumbwe
country
?
'
I
told
him
I
never
had
.
'
Ah
,
well
,
'
he
said
,
'
that
is
where
Solomon
really
had
his
mines
,
his
diamond
mines
,
I
mean
.
'
