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Title: When the World Shook
Being an Account of the Great Adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot

Author: H. Rider Haggard

Posting Date: September 18, 2008 [EBook #1368]
Release Date: June, 1998

Language: English

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WHEN THE WORLD SHOOK

Being an Account of the Great Adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot

by H. Rider Haggard

DEDICATION

Ditchingham, 1918.

MY DEAR CURZON,

More than thirty years ago you tried to protect me, then a stranger to
you, from one of the falsest and most malignant accusations ever made
against a writer.

So complete was your exposure of the methods of those at work to blacken
a person whom they knew to be innocent, that, as you will remember,
they refused to publish your analysis which destroyed their charges and,
incidentally, revealed their motives.

Although for this reason vindication came otherwise, your kindness is
one that I have never forgotten, since, whatever the immediate issue of
any effort, in the end it is the intention that avails.

Therefore in gratitude and memory I ask you to accept this romance, as
I know that you do not disdain the study of romance in the intervals of
your Imperial work.

The application of its parable to our state and possibilities--beneath
or beyond these glimpses of the moon--I leave to your discernment.

Believe me,

Ever sincerely yours,

H. RIDER HAGGARD.

To
The Earl Curzon of Kedleston, K.G.

CONTENTS

1. ARBUTHNOT DESCRIBES HIMSELF

2. BASTIN AND BICKLEY

3. NATALIE

4. DEATH AND DEPARTURE

5. THE CYCLONE

6. LAND

7. THE OROFENANS

8. BASTIN ATTEMPTS THE MARTYR'S CROWN

9. THE ISLAND IN THE LAKE

10. THE DWELLERS IN THE TOMB

11. RESURRECTION

12. TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND YEARS!

13. ORO SPEAKS AND BASTIN ARGUES

14. THE UNDER-WORLD

15. ORO IN HIS HOUSE

16. VIS