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    Maiwa’s Revenge by H. Rider Haggard - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)
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    H. Rider Haggard (1856–1925) was an English adventure novelist. Haggard studied law, but rather than pursuing a legal career took a secretarial position in what is now South Africa. His time there provided the inspiration for some of his most popular novels, including She (1887), an early classic of the lost world fantasy genre and one of the bestselling books of all time.

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      Maiwa’s Revenge by H. Rider Haggard - Delphi Classics (Illustrated) - H. Rider Haggard

      The Complete Works of

      H. RIDER HAGGARD

      VOLUME 8 OF 72

      Maiwa’s Revenge

      Parts Edition

      By Delphi Classics, 2015

      Version 2

      COPYRIGHT

      ‘Maiwa’s Revenge’

      H. Rider Haggard: Parts Edition (in 72 parts)

      First published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by Delphi Classics.

      © Delphi Classics, 2017.

      All rights reserved.  No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form other than that in which it is published.

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      H. Rider Haggard: Parts Edition

      This eBook is Part 8 of the Delphi Classics edition of H. Rider Haggard in 72 Parts. It features the unabridged text of Maiwa’s Revenge from the bestselling edition of the author’s Complete Works. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. Our Parts Editions feature original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of H. Rider Haggard, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.

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      H. RIDER HAGGARD

      IN 72 VOLUMES

      Parts Edition Contents

      Ayesha Series

      The Rise and Fall of the Zulu Nation Series

      The Novels

      1, Dawn

      2, The Witch’s Head

      3, King Solomon’s Mines

      4, She

      5, Jess

      6, Allan Quatermain

      7, Mr Meeson’s Will

      8, Maiwa’s Revenge

      9, Colonel Quaritch, V.C.

      10, Cleopatra

      11, Allan’s Wife

      12, Beatrice

      13, The World’s Desire

      14, Eric Brighteyes

      15, Nada the Lily

      16, Montezuma’s Daughter

      17, The People of the Mist

      18, Joan Haste

      19, Heart of the World

      20, The Wizard

      21, Dr Therne

      22, Swallow: A Tale of the Great Trek

      23, Elissa

      24, Black Heart and White Heart

      25, Lysbeth

      26, Pearl-Maiden

      27, Stella Fregelius

      28, The Brethren

      29, Ayesha: The Return of She

      30, The Way of the Spirit

      31, Benita: An African Romance

      32, Fair Margaret

      33, The Ghost Kings

      34, The Yellow God

      35, The Lady of Blossholme

      36, Morning Star

      37, Queen Sheba’s Ring

      38, Red Eve

      39, Marie

      40, Child of Storm

      41, The Wanderer’s Necklace

      42, The Holy Flower

      43, The Ivory Child

      44, Finished

      45, Love Eternal

      46, Moon of Israel

      47, When the World Shook

      48, The Ancient Allan

      49, She and Allan

      50, The Virgin of the Sun

      51, Wisdom’s Daughter

      52, Heu-Heu

      53, Queen of the Dawn

      54, The Treasure of the Lake

      55, Allan and the Ice Gods

      56, Mary of Marion Isle

      57, Belshazzar

      The Short Stories

      58, Allan the Hunter

      59, A Tale of Three Lions

      60, Prince: Another Lion

      61, Hunter Quatermain’s Story

      62, Long Odds

      63, Smith and the Pharoahs

      64, Magepa the Buck

      65, The Blue Curtains

      66, Little Flower

      67, Only a Dream

      68, Barbara Who Came Back

      69, The Mahatma and the Hare

      Selected Non-Fiction

      70, Cetywayo and His White Neighbors

      71, A Winter Pilgrimage

      The Biography

      72, The Days of My Life

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      Maiwa’s Revenge

      OR

      THE WAR OF THE LITTLE HAND

      CONTENTS

      PREFACE

      I — GOBO STRIKES

      II — A MORNING’S SPORT

      III — THE FIRST ROUND

      IV — THE LAST ROUND

      V — THE MESSAGE OF MAIWA

      VI — THE PLAN OF CAMPAIGN

      VII — THE ATTACK

      VIII — MAIWA IS AVENGED

      PREFACE

      It may be well to state that the incident of the Thing that bites recorded in this tale is not an effort of the imagination. On the contrary, it is plagiarized. Mandara, a well-known chief on the east coast of Africa, has such an article, and uses it. In the same way the wicked conduct attributed to Wambe is not without a precedent. T’Chaka, the Zulu Napoleon, never allowed a child of his to live. Indeed he went further, for on discovering that his mother, Unandi, was bringing up one of his sons in secret, like Nero he killed her, and with his own hand.

      I — GOBO STRIKES

      One day — it was about a week after Allan Quatermain told me his story of the Three Lions, and of the moving death of Jim-Jim — he and I were walking home together on the termination of a day’s shooting. He owned about two thousand acres of shooting round the place he had bought in Yorkshire, over a hundred of which were wood. It was the second year of his occupation of the estate, and already he had reared a very fair head of pheasants, for he was an all-round sportsman, and as fond of shooting with a shot-gun as with an eight-bore rifle. We were three guns that day, Sir Henry Curtis, Old Quatermain, and myself; but Sir Henry was obliged to leave in the middle of the afternoon in order to meet his agent, and inspect an outlying farm where a new shed was wanted. However, he was coming back to dinner, and going to bring Captain Good with him, for Brayley Hall was not more than two miles from the Grange.

      We had met with very fair sport, considering that we were only going through outlying cover for cocks. I think that we had killed twenty-seven, a woodcock and a leash of partridges which we secured out of a driven covey. On our way home there lay a long narrow spinney, which was a very favourite lie for woodcocks, and generally held a pheasant or two as well.

      Well, what do you say? said old Quatermain, shall we beat through this for a finish?

      I assented, and he called to the keeper who was following with a little knot of beaters, and told him to beat the spinney.

      Very well, sir, answered the man, but it’s getting wonderful dark, and the wind’s rising a gale. It will take you all your time to hit a woodcock if the spinney holds one.

      You show us the woodcocks, Jeffries, answered Quatermain quickly, for he never liked being crossed in anything to do with sport, and we will look after shooting them.

      The man turned and went rather sulkily. I heard him say to the under-keeper, He’s pretty good, the master is, I’m not saying he isn’t, but if he kills a woodcock in this light and wind, I’m a Dutchman.

      I think that Quatermain heard him too, though he said nothing. The wind was rising every minute, and by the time the beat begun it blew big guns. I stood at the right-hand corner of the spinney, which curved round somewhat, and Quatermain stood at the left, about forty paces from me. Presently an old cock pheasant came rocketing over me, looking as though the feathers were being blown out of his tail. I missed him clean with the first barrel, and was never more pleased with myself in my life than when I doubled him up with the second, for the shot was not an easy one. In the faint light I could see Quatermain nodding his head in approval, when through the groaning of the trees I heard the shouts of the beaters, Cock forward, cock to the right. Then came a whole volley of shouts, Woodcock to the right, Cock to the left, Cock over.

      I looked up, and presently caught sight of one of the woodcocks coming down the wind upon me like a flash. In that dim light I could not follow all his movements as he zigzagged through the naked tree-tops; indeed I could see him when his wings flitted up. Now he was passing me — bang, and a flick of the wing, I had missed him; bang again. Surely he was down; no, there he went to my left.

      Cock to you, I shouted, stepping forward so as to get Quatermain between me and the faint angry light of the dying day, for I wanted to see if he would wipe my eye. I knew him to be a wonderful shot, but I thought that cock would puzzle him.

      I saw him raise his gun ever so little and bend forward, and at that moment out flashed two woodcocks into the open, the one I had missed to his right, and the other to his left.

      At the same time a fresh shout arose of, Woodcock over, and looking down the spinney I saw a third bird high up in the air, being blown along like a brown and whirling leaf straight over Quatermain’s head. And then followed the prettiest little bit of shooting that I ever saw. The bird to the right was flying low, not ten yards from the line of a hedgerow, and Quatermain took him first because he would become invisible the soonest of any. Indeed, nobody who had not his hawk’s eyes could have seen to shoot at all. But he saw the bird well enough to kill it dead as a stone. Then turning sharply, he pulled on the second bird at about forty-five yards, and over he went. By this time the third woodcock was nearly over him, and flying very high, straight down the wind, a hundred feet up or more, I should say. I saw him glance at it as he opened his gun, threw out the right cartridge and slipped in another, turning round as he did so. By this time the cock was nearly fifty yards away from him, and travelling like a flash. Lifting his gun he fired after it, and, wonderful as the shot was, killed it dead. A tearing gust of wind caught the dead bird, and blew it away like a leaf torn from an oak, so that it fell a hundred and thirty yards off or more.

      I say, Quatermain, I said to him when the beaters were up, do you often do this sort of thing?

      Well, he answered, with a dry smile, "the last time I had to load three shots as quickly as that was at rather larger game. It was at elephants. I killed them all three as

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