Allan and the Holy Flower - H.Rider Haggard

Allan and the Holy Flower is a 1915 novel by H. Rider Haggard featuring Allan Quatermain.\n It first appeared serialised in The Windsor Magazine from issue 228 to 239, illustrated by Maurice Greiffenhagen,\n and in New Story Magazine from December 1913 through June 1914.\n Brother John, who has been living in Africa for many years, gives Allan Quatermain the largest orchid he has ever seen. Later, in England, he has a meeting with Mr. Somers, an orchid collector who is prepaired to finance an expedition to search for the plant.\n Join Allan as he sets out to find this rare orchid ... and finds something more.\n Excerpt:\n Now I, the listener, thought for a moment or two. The words of this fighting savage,\n Mavovo, even those of them of which I had heard only the translation, garbled and