# Endnotes explained — Allan Quatermain Stories

> Chapter companion for Allan Quatermain Stories by H. Rider Haggard.

## What happens

The endnotes provide editorial clarifications and additional context regarding Isanusi the witch-finder, the adventures in Zu-Vendis, and a personal anecdote about a lion carrying an ox.

## Themes in this chapter

### Adventure and Danger

The endnotes reference the dangerous adventures in Zu-Vendis and a personal encounter with a lion.

## Character check-ins

### Allan Quatermain

Referenced as the author of the account of adventures in Zu-Vendis.

### Sir Henry Curtis

Mentioned as a participant in the Zu-Vendis adventures.

### Captain Good

Mentioned as a participant in the Zu-Vendis adventures.

## Key lines

> This of course was written before Mr. Quatermain’s account of the adventures in the newly-discovered country of Zu-Vendis of himself, Sir Henry Curtis, and Capt. John Good had been received in England.

The editor notes that this was written before news of Quatermain, Curtis, and Good's adventures in Zu-Vendis reached England.

_Editorial note establishing the timeline of the narrative._

> I have known a lion carry a two-year-old ox over a stone wall four feet high in this fashion, and a mile away into the bush beyond. He was subsequently poisoned by strychnine put into the carcass of the ox, and I still have his claws.

The editor recounts a personal experience where a lion carried a young ox over a wall and was later killed with poison; the editor still possesses the lion's claws.

_Anecdote illustrating the strength and danger of lions._

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