river-dwellers

Updated: May 26, 2025

Then for the first time Dorcas heard, for hitherto all had seemed to happen in silence. "Die, Umtakati! Die, you wizard, as the King commands, and feed the river-dwellers," said a deep voice. There followed a struggle, a horrible twisting of shapes, and the elderly man vanished over the cliff, while a moment later from below came the noise of a great splash.

Henry Rider Haggard - Smith and the Pharaohs, and other Tales

The next two days were repetitions of the first, but on the fourth we passed out of the bush-veld into the swamp country that bordered the great river. Here our task was still easy since the Amahagger had followed one of the paths made by the river-dwellers who had their habitations on mounds, though whether these were natural or artificial I am not sure, and sometimes on floating islands.

Henry Rider Haggard - She and Allan