Haikus from The Ivory Child by H. Rider Haggard

From a book categorized as Fiction / Action & Adventure and 331 pages follows a description and a number of hidden haikus found in the book:

Get set for adventure with this rip-roaring tale from action-fantasy master H. Rider Haggard. The Ivory Child sees intrepid explorer Allan Quatermain venturing into unknown territory to rescue a kidnapping victim. Along the way, he inadvertently stumbles into an array of thorny situations, including a tribal civil war. Will Quatermain triumph and make it back alive? Pick up The Ivory Child to find out.

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“Then look!” Thus speaking
 he lowered his head and charged
like a buffalo.

At us came the whole
 mob of them--we were but six
now--roaring “Jana!

Hundreds of people
 are dead, killed by the ice-stones
that you have called down.

As we went, in brief
 but sufficient language Hans
told me his story.

But to Jana these
 appeared to offer little
or no obstacle.

“Then soon they will be
 wishing to reap yours with spears,”
I said. “That is so.

So, Lord, you quite safe
 unless you big fool and go
call on snake in cave.

I tell you, little
 Yellow Dog, that they do not
know what love can be.

This time there shall be
 no mistake, or if there is,
let it be my last.

Then we descended
 their farther slope and entered
the northern desert.