King Solomon’s Mines
By H. Rider Haggard
King Solomon’s Mines – MEET SIR HENRY CURTIS It is a curious thing that at my age — fifty-five last birthday — I should find myself taking up a pen to try to write a history. I wonder what sort of a history it will be when I have finished it, if ever I come to the end of the trip!
I have done a good many things in my life, which seems a long one to me, owing to my having begun work so young, perhaps. At an age when other boys are at school, I was earning my living as a trader in the old Colony.
I have been trading, hunting, fighting, or mining ever since. And yet it is only
eight months ago, that I made my pile.
