Elissa

OR THE DOOM OF ZIMBABWE

by H. Rider Haggard


Contents

[DEDICATION]
[AUTHOR’S NOTE]
[NOTE]
[CHAPTER I. THE CARAVAN]
[CHAPTER II. THE GROVE OF BAALTIS]
[CHAPTER III. ITHOBAL THE KING]
[CHAPTER IV. THE DREAM OF ISSACHAR]
[CHAPTER V. THE PLACE OF SACRIFICE]
[CHAPTER VI. THE HALL OF AUDIENCE]
[CHAPTER VII. THE BLACK DWARF]
[CHAPTER VIII. AZIEL PLIGHTS HIS TROTH]
[CHAPTER IX. GREETING TO THE BAALTIS]
[CHAPTER X. THE EMBASSY]
[CHAPTER XI. METEM SELLS IMAGES]
[CHAPTER XII. THE TRYST]
[CHAPTER XIII. THE SACRILEGE OF AZIEL]
[CHAPTER XIV. THE MARTYRDOM OF ISSACHAR]
[CHAPTER XV. ELISSA TAKES SANCTUARY]
[CHAPTER XVI. THE CAGE OF DEATH]
[CHAPTER XVII. “THERE IS HOPE”]

DEDICATION

To the Memory of the Child
Nada Burnham,

who “bound all to her” and, while her father cut his way through the hordes of the Ingobo Regiment, perished of the hardships of war at Buluwao on 19th May, 1896, I dedicate these tales—and more particularly the last, that of a Faith which triumphed over savagery and death.

H. Rider Haggard.