The People Of The Mist

by H. Rider Haggard

First Published 1894.

DEDICATION

I DEDICATE THIS EFFORT OF
“PRIMEVAL AND TROGLODYTE IMAGINATION"
THIS RECORD OF BAREFACED AND FLAGRANT ADVENTURE
TO MY GODSONS
IN THE HOPE THAT THEREIN THEY MAY FIND
SOME STORE OF HEALTHY AMUSEMENT.
Ditchingham, 1894.

Contents

[AUTHOR’S NOTE]
[I. THE SINS OF THE FATHER ARE VISITED ON THE CHILDREN]
[II. THE SINS OF THE FATHER ARE VISITED ON THE CHILDREN]
[III. AFTER SEVEN YEARS]
[IV. THE LAST VIGIL]
[V. OTTER GIVES COUNSEL]
[VI. THE TALE OF SOA]
[VII. LEONARD SWEARS ON THE BLOOD OF ACA]
[VIII. THE START]
[IX. THE YELLOW DEVIL’S NEST]
[X. LEONARD MAKES A PLAN]
[XI. THAT HERO OTTER]
[XII. A CHOICE LOT]
[XIII. A MIDNIGHT MARRIAGE]
[XIV. VENGEANCE]
[XV. DISILLUSION]
[XVI. MISUNDERSTANDINGS]
[XVII. THE DEATH OF MAVOOM]
[XVIII. SOA SHOWS HER TEETH]
[XIX. THE END OF THE JOURNEY]
[XX. THE COMING OF ACA]
[XXI. THE FOLLY OF OTTER]
[XXII. THE TEMPLE OF JÂL]
[XXIII. HOW JUANNA CONQUERED NAM]
[XXIV. OLFAN TELLS OF THE RUBIES]
[XXV. THE SACRIFICE AFTER THE NEW ORDER]
[XXVI. THE LAST OF THE SETTLEMENT MEN]
[XXVII. ATHER AND DAUGHTER]
[XXVIII. JUANNA PREVARICATES]
[XXIX. THE TRIAL OF THE GODS]
[XXX. FRANCISCO’S EXPIATION]
[XXXI. THE WHITE DAWN]
[XXXII. HOW OTTER FOUGHT THE WATER DWELLER]
[XXXIII. TRAPPED]
[XXXIV. NAM’S LAST ARGUMENT]
[XXXV. BE NOBLE OR BE BASE]
[XXXVI. HOW OTTER CAME BACK]
[XXXVII. “I AM REPAID, QUEEN”]
[XXXVIII. THE TRIUMPH OF NAM]
[XXXIX. THE PASSING OF THE BRIDGE]
[XL. OTTER’S FAREWELL]
[ENVOI THE END OF THE ADVENTURE]

AUTHOR’S NOTE