THE ANCIENT ALLAN
By H. Rider Haggard

First Published 1920.



THE ANCIENT ALLAN

BY

H. RIDER HAGGARD





THE ANCIENT ALLAN



CHAPTER I

AN OLD FRIEND

Now I, Allan Quatermain, come to the weirdest (with one or two
exceptions perhaps) of all the experiences which it has amused me to
employ my idle hours in recording here in a strange land, for after
all England is strange to me. I grow elderly. I have, as I suppose,
passed the period of enterprise and adventure and I should be well