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New York: P. F. Collier & Son, None.
novelnovelThe People of the MistThe People of the Misthttps://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/haggard/editions/images/000/000/26/original/thePeopleCover.jpg?1485098963In the African romance The People of the Mist British explorer Leonard Outram seeks out a mysterious lost civilization and their treasure of precious gems. Tit-Bits Weekly serialized PM from December 1893 to August 18...In the African romance <span style="font-style:italic;">The People of the Mist</span> British explorer Leonard Outram seeks out a mysterious lost civilization and their treasure of precious gems. <span style="font-style:italic;">Tit-Bits Weekly</span> serialized <span style="font-style:italic;">PM</span> from December 1893 to August 1894. The first book edition, published by Longmans, Green, and Co., London, on 15 October 1894, featured 16 illustrations by <a href="http://www.visualhaggard.org/illustrators/8">Arthur Layard</a>. Longmans issued 10,000 copies in this printing. Longmans, New York, included the Layard illustrations in the first US edition published in 1894. George Newnes, London, published an edition c. 1906, which features 8 illustrations by <a href="http://www.visualhaggard.org/illustrators/12">Cyrus Cuneo</a>. In c. 1923 Hodder & Stoughton, London, published an edition with an illustrated dust jacket. Macdonald & Co., London, published an edition of <span style="font-style:italic;">PM</span> illustrated by <a href="http://www.visualhaggard.org/illustrators/49">Jack Matthew</a> in 1951, 1st thus. <h4>Further Reading</h4> <p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">Pocock Tom. <span style="font-style:italic;">Rider Haggard and the Lost Empire</span>. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1993. 93, 103.</p> <p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">Whatmore, D.E.. <span style="font-style:italic;">H Rider Haggard: A Bibliography</span>. Westport, CT: Meckler Publishing Co., 1987. F17, 28-29.</p>
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The People of the Mist
In the African romance The People of the Mist British explorer Leonard Outram seeks out a mysterious lost civilization and their treasure of precious gems.
Tit-Bits Weekly serialized PM from December 1893 to August 1894. The first book edition, published by Longmans, Green, and Co., London, on 15 October 1894, featured 16 illustrations by Arthur Layard. Longmans issued 10,000 copies in this printing. Longmans, New York, included the Layard illustrations in the first US edition published in 1894. George Newnes, London, published an edition c. 1906, which features 8 illustrations by Cyrus Cuneo. In c. 1923 Hodder & Stoughton, London, published an edition with an illustrated dust jacket. Macdonald & Co., London, published an edition of PM illustrated by Jack Matthew in 1951, 1st thus.
Further Reading
Pocock Tom. Rider Haggard and the Lost Empire. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1993. 93, 103.
Whatmore, D.E.. H Rider Haggard: A Bibliography. Westport, CT: Meckler Publishing Co., 1987. F17, 28-29.
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1st US edition
New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1894.
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1st UK edition
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1894.
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1st Edition Thus
London: George Newnes, c. 1906.
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Reprint
London: Hodder & Stoughton, c. 1923.
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Macdonald Illustrated Edition
London: Macdonald & Co, 1951.
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1st Edition Thus
New York: Ballantine, 1973.
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1st Edition Thus
New York: Del Rey, 1977.
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They had left the road of ice and were flying through the air
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'So help us, God.'
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Otter... suddenly burst into song.
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'I have to thank you for a great deal'
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'Ah! Yellow Devil,' the dwarf cried as he swung, 'look behind you.'
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It was he who sprang.
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'Praise him, the Deliverer.'
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Holding out his hand above her as though in blessing.
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This was what Leonard saw at length.
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Company by company it rushed past them.
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Staggering to his knees, he stretched out his arms towards the rising sun.
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At last the headman Peter... went mad with fear.
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Then a small black object projected itself towards the feet of the sentry.
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Then a small black object projected itself towards the feet of the sentry
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Praise him, the deliverer
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So help us, God!
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Staggering to his knees, he stretched out his arms towards the rising sun
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At last the headman Peter... went mad with fear
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They had left the road of ice and were flying through the air
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Nam hurled himself backwards
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'Ah! Yellow Devil,' the dwarf cried as he swung, 'look behind you.'
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Otter... suddenly burst into song
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'Be noble of be base'
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'I have to thank you for a great deal'
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This was what Leonard saw at length
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Company by company it rushed past them
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It was he who sprang
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Crouched upon a stone... sat a tall and withered woman
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Holding out his hand above her as though in blessing
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'Drive the spear into her till she speaks, comrade,' said Olfan
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'And hast thou come to claim me at the last?' she said, addressing Otter
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'The knife, the knife,' gasped Xavier
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Soa sprang backwards with a yell
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For a moment the ill-assorted pair stood together on the rock
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Otter, putting out all his strength, hurled himself and his burden into sheer space beneath
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Nam hurled himself backwards off the point of rock, bearing the treasure with him
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Leonard, suspended from the shaft of the spear by one hand, must support Juanna's senseless form with the other
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