H. Rider Haggard

Name: The Wizard (Haggard) — XIX. The Fall of the Great Place
Author: H. Rider Haggard

The Wizard (Haggard) — XIX. The Fall of the Great Place (1896)

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“The Wizard (Haggard) — XIX. The Fall of the Great Place”, published in 1896, is a work by H. Rider Haggard. It explores elements such as Hafela, Hokosa and Nodwengo.

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H. Rider Haggard, The Wizard (Haggard) — XIX. The Fall of the Great Place (1896)

“ Hokosa answered. “We did well yonder, and yet the most of us are alive to tell the tale, for I knew when and how to go. Be ready, King, for the foe press us close, and that mob behind us crawls onward like a snail.”
As he spoke the pursuers broke through the fence and gate of the burning town, and once more the fight began. They had the advantage of numbers; but Nodwengo and his troops stood in a wide road upon higher ground protected on either side by walls, and were, moreover, rested, not breathless and weary with travel like the men of Hafela. ”

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H. Rider Haggard, The Wizard (Haggard) — XIX. The Fall of the Great Place (1896)

“ Panic had seized many of these poor creatures, who, in imagination, already saw themselves impaled upon the cruel spears of Hafela’s troops, and indeed in not a few instances believed those who were urging them forward to be the enemy. Women shrieked and wrung their hands, children wailed piteously, oxen lowed, and the infirm and aged vented their grief in groans and cries to Heaven, or their ancient god, for mercy. ”

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H. Rider Haggard, The Wizard (Haggard) — XIX. The Fall of the Great Place (1896)

“ Yet how can this be the impi of Hafela, who, say the generals, is encamped upon the ridge?”
“He may have left the ridge, King, having been warned of the ambush.”
“It cannot be, for when the runner started his fires burned there and his soldiers were gathered round them.”
“Then perhaps his captains sit upon the ridge with some portion of his strength to deceive those who await him in the gorge; while, knowing that here men are few, he himself swoops down on you with the main body of his impi.” ”

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H. Rider Haggard, The Wizard (Haggard) — XIX. The Fall of the Great Place (1896)

“ While he was still speaking the first files of the regiment rushed upon the fence, tearing aside the thorns with their hands till a passage was made through them. Then they sprang upon the wall, there to be met by the spears of Hokosa and his men thrusting upward from beneath its shelter. Time after time they sprang, and time after time they fell back dead or wounded, till at last, dashing forward in one dense column, they poured over the stones as the rising tide pours over the rocks on the sea-shore, driving the defenders before them by the sheer weight of numbers. ”

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H. Rider Haggard, The Wizard (Haggard) — XIX. The Fall of the Great Place (1896)

“ Command now that all the women and the old men, taking with them such cattle and food as are in the town, depart at once into the Valley of Death and collect in the open space that lies beyond the Tree of Doom, near the spring of water that is there. The valley is narrow and the cliffs are steep, and it may chance that by the help of Heaven we shall be able to hold it till the army returns to relieve us, to seek which messengers must be sent at once with these tidings. ”

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H. Rider Haggard, The Wizard (Haggard) — XIX. The Fall of the Great Place (1896)

“ Nodwengo and the captains went out to them, and as they saw him come they lifted their spears like one man, giving him the royal salute of “King!” He held up his hand and addressed them.
“Soldiers,” he said, “we have been outwitted. My impi is afar, and that of Hafela is at our gates. Yonder in the valley, though we be few, we can defend ourselves till succour reaches us, which already messengers have gone out to seek. But first we must give time for the women and children, the sick and the aged, to withdraw with food and cattle ”

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H. Rider Haggard, The Wizard (Haggard) — XIX. The Fall of the Great Place (1896)

“ By now the town behind them was a scene of almost indescribable tumult and confusion, for the companies detailed to the task were clearing the numberless huts of their occupants, and collecting women, children and oxen in thousands, preparatory to driving them into the defile. ”

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