Description

Haggard was an English writer,colonialadministrator and novelist. He travelled extensively andmost ofthe settings in his novels are borrowed from these travels.Thenative population of the British colonies aretreatedsympathetically in his works.

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"O Amen, Father of the Spirit of this Queen, show now thy will,thatwe may learn it and obey."

For a while there was silence, till suddenly a sound was heardinthe dark sanctuary where stood the statue of the god, a sound asofa stick tapping upon the granite floor. Then the curtains ofthatsanctuary were drawn, and standing between them there appearedthefigure of an ancient, bearded man, with stony eyes, who wasclad ina beggar's robe. It was he who had met Tua and Asti inthewilderness and eaten up their food. It was he who had saved theminthe palace of the desert king. It was he who but last nighthadwalked the camp of Abi.