Companionably met at the announcement of the British annexing of Transvaal to the British Crown, two English hunters travel to Lydenburg, in pursuit of buffalo. . . . and from so quiet a beginning arises one of the great adventures of Allan Quatermain -- fated now to be not hunter but hunted, driven to a place the natives fear, beyond a swamp haunted by murdered souls . . . and then to the dread Valley of Bones.