Allan Quatermain, hero ofKing Solomons Mines, returns in this 1913 adventure set in Zululand, a region Haggard knew from colonial service. Mameena is a local beauty whose hand is sought by a friend of Allans. But she now prefers Allan himself. Mameenas subsequent treachery proves her beauty to be only skin deep, and gets her into much trouble.

Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925) was a British civil servant and novelist whose tales of mystery, romance, and rip-roaring adventure deeply influenced subsequent generations of writers.  Haggard is most famous as the author of the novelKing Solomons Mines, whose Allan Quartermain was the inspiration for the character Indian Jones in theRaiders of the Lost Ark movies.