White Queen and Night Queen

Author: (English) Henry Rider Haggard, translated by Yang Youfang
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Publish Date: 1998-08-01
Features: George Curtis, driven by resentment over an inheritance issue, travels alone to South Africa in search of the long-rumored treasure of King Solomon. After three years of no news, his brother Sir Henry travels to South Africa to find him. Accompanied by Captain Good and old hunter Quatmein, they follow an ancient map of King Solomon's treasure. The Zulu warrior Umbopa agrees to join them. After enduring dangers such as attacks by elephant herds, lack of food and water, extreme heat and cold, and losing two companions, they finally cross Solomon's Mountain and arrive at the location of the Solomon Treasury in the kingdom of Kukun. King Twala, a usurper who killed his brother, is cruel and tyrannical, trusting the witch Gagool and killing the innocent. The people yearn for chaos. Umbopa is actually the son of Twala's brother and comes this time to reclaim the throne. With the help of his uncle Ifudu, Henry, and Quatmein, he saves the beautiful woman Fara, who is about to be killed, defeats the troops loyal to Twala, and Sir Henry chops Twala to death with an axe. Umbopa ascends the throne. Umbopa orders the only one who knows the secret of the treasury, Gagool, to take three people to the treasure room. The three are locked in the room by Gagool, who drops a 30-ton heavy stone door on them. Fara dies at the hands of Gagool while trying to save the three from Good, and Gagool is crushed to death by the stone door. The three are trapped in the stone room, guarding diamonds, gold, and ivory worth millions of pounds, with no way out and only waiting to die.