The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-04-17
HOW QUATERMAIN
SOUGHT THE HOLY FLOWER
H. Rider Hagsard Vividly Shows Us Motombo
the Terrible and Hans the Clever Hottentot.
A History Of Jewish Achievements Biography Of
Fulton Public Utilities" and Other Subjects.

Ttc Mn.omho in n. Rider Haggard's
.,or, of Milan and the Holy Flower"
1o1eml0s Green and Company was
,rrnr but Hans the Hottentot was
be clever one. We see the Motombo
.nuat,cd IN his cave at the edge of the
anal An uminously quiet body OF
vater deep and black and fringed with
.rDcodiic~ lie was human, though Il
sas hard to believe 1t. Moving upon
ALL flurs ne had the aspect or TOAD:
1i. head was large and bald and sunk
bc,ween his shoulders; yellow tus<s
pro,ruded one from each corner Of his
great mouth; his eyes blazed like 4
IONS in me dark IL Is probable that
he was 200 years old.
II Hans the Hottentot had not
smnggled a rife into the Pongo coun.
try II is hardly to be doubted that the
seven foot gorilla who was such a god
Of that insular and peculiar people
would have bitten of the heads OF
Allan Quatcrrnain and the others Who
were out in search of the Holy Flower,
A vast orchid that could be sold in
London for 10000. 1t was the habit
Of this formidable ape to bite OF the
heads " the Pongo kings-about one
king every ten years. There Is "A pas
sage in Allan Quatermain's narrative
which declares VERY unpleasant IL
was 10 hear in that awful forest. with
skulls arranged on boxes all around
us. can assure you. my reader" Tne
gorilla drummed upon his chest as he
advanced. thi. was the sound that II
was unpleasant to hear. The skulls
Aclonged to the slain kings. the rest "
whose bones were contained In the
toxes
Allan confesses that Hans the Hot
,ontot was the hero and the savior of
the es~N.tion. The production OF the
ingeniously hidden rife was most un-
expected as ell as most necessary.
Hans was not agreeable to the eye; he
was not faithful at the bath; but
Allan sets down: II could have kissed
him. Yes. such was my JOY that
could have kissed that hldeous.
smelly old Hottentot.' The appetite
VI crocodiles liz suspended during
thunderstorms. After the gorilla had
been killed Allan took advantage of
a summer tempest to swim across the
canal and to shoot the Motombo. He
sighted his rifle by lightning flash
and the bullet hit the Motombo. who
was the gorilla's high priest. exactly
IN the middle Of the forehead. II
tok off some of my clothes. stripping
in fac to my flannel shirt and the
cotton pants | wore" this Is Alans
language in describing how he pre-
pared himself for the swim across the
canal The dripping and cinging
pants we're doubtless illuminated
brilliantly by the same fash that mat e
q cleaning target of the wicked old
Motrmh'
QIalermainian tale plenty To excite
hi, interest and special wonder. The
hattie Of the gate" was another occa-
sion that was marked by the brilliant
rerfurmauce of Hans the HotteEto'.
There were two gates, one north and
one south, and it W. when the Arab
slave dealers wero between the two
That Hans. bearing a box of ns-s<hes,
went around to the north gate and set
rom the north. and the construct II
u the city was such as to enable II TO
burn with frightful rap!dity. 1t might
h. thought that the Arabs could get
.It at the south gate. but there was
Nllan with his Zulu rifemen and HIS
Naztu soldiers armed with spears.
II was really magnificent. that fray.
How tn So Xulus did go in
only quite few of the Arabs got out
and were captured after they had
thrown down their guns" Hans there
after was called Light in Darkness"
and Lord Of the Fire" whereas pre-
'lously he had only borne the moder-
stey complimentary title Of Spotted
snake" We were sorry that the
Holy Flower could not have been car
led of TO London. but doubtless the
author did not wish to include in his
story anything that the reader could
not believe.