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Our eyes were constantly directed towards unfortunate Tabora. It has been said that three tembes only have stood the brunt of the attack. Abid bin Suliman's house has been destroyed, and over two hundred tusks of ivory that belonged to him have become the property of the African Bonaparte. My tembe is in as efficient a state of defence as its style and means of defence will allow.
Quatermain," said Sir Henry, "I am going to look for my brother; I am going to trace him to Suliman's Mountains, and over them if necessary, till I find him, or until I know that he is dead. Will you come with me?" I am, as I think I have said, a cautious man, indeed a timid one, and this suggestion frightened me.
The general sahib from Jundhra and your husband's guns and others, making one division, are engaged with rebels eight or nine miles from here. We saw part of the battle as we rode!" "Who wins?" "It is doubtful, heavenborn! How could we tell from this distance?" "Have you a horse for me?" "Ay, heavenborn! Here! Bring up that horse, thou, and Suliman's!
When the sun rose, and, for awhile, cleared away the mysterious mists, Suliman's Berg with the two majestic Breasts, now only about twenty miles off, seemed to be towering right above us, and looked grander than ever.
'I didn't like to start without bidding you good-bye, for I daresay you are right, and that we shall never trek south again. "'Is your master really going to Suliman's Berg, Jim, or are you lying? "'No, he answered, 'he is going. He told me he was bound to make his fortune somehow, or try to; so he might as well have a fling for the diamonds.
First I am a fatalist, and believe that my time is appointed to come quite without reference to my own movements and will, and that if I am to go to Suliman's Mountains to be killed, I shall go there and shall be killed. God Almighty, no doubt, knows His mind about me, so I need not trouble on that point. Secondly, I am a poor man.
Once I knew a woman who came from there, and reached Natal with her child, she told me: she is dead now. "'Your master will feed the assvögels' that is, vultures 'Jim, if he tries to reach Suliman's country, and so will you if they can get any pickings off your worthless old carcass, said I. "He grinned. 'Mayhap, Baas.
However, just twenty years afterwards and that is a long time, gentlemen; an elephant hunter does not often live for twenty years at his business I heard something more definite about Suliman's Mountains and the country which lies beyond them.
Then the fever took him again, and he fell down and began to rave about Suliman's Mountains, and the diamonds, and the desert. I carried him into the tent and did what I could for him, which was little enough; but I saw how it must end. About eleven o'clock he grew quieter, and I lay down for a little rest and went to sleep.
"'Baas, said he again. "'Eh, boy, what is it? I asked. "'Baas, we are going after diamonds. "'Diamonds! why, then, you are steering in the wrong direction; you should head for the Fields. "'Baas, have you ever heard of Suliman's Berg? that is, Solomon's Mountains, Sir Henry. "'Ay! "'Have you ever heard of the diamonds there? "'I have heard a foolish story, Jim. "'It is no story, Baas.
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