Haikus from She and Allan by H. Rider Haggard

From a book categorized as Foreign Language Study / English as a Second Language and 30 pages follows a description and a number of hidden haikus found in the book:

Sir Henry Rider Haggard KBE (1856-1925) was a Victorian writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations. After failing his army entrance exam he was sent to a private 'crammer' in London to prepare for the entrance exam for the British Foreign Office, for which he never sat. Haggard's father sent him to Africa in an unpaid position as assistant to the secretary to Lieutenant-Governor of Natal Sir Henry Bulwer. Heavily influenced by the larger-than-life adventurers he met in Colonial Africa, the great mineral wealth discovered in Africa, and the ruins of ancient lost civilizations in Africa such as Great Zimbabwe, Haggard created his Allan Quatermain adventures. Haggard also wrote about agricultural and social issues reform, in part inspired by his experiences in Africa, but also based on what he saw in Europe. Haggard is most famous as the author of the best-selling novel King Solomon's Mines (1885). Amongst his other works are She (1887), Allan Quatermain (1888), Eric Brighteyes (1891) and Ayesha (1895).

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So northward I trekked,
 slowly to spare my oxen,
trading as I went.

“We did not make them,
 Watcher-by-Night, we brought them
with us folded up.

The little yellow
 one there is afraid of me,
as are all of you.

I must search and learn.
 For the rest, all have not thought
as you do, Allan.

Wolf of a black man,
 may we meet elsewhere and fight
this fray again. Ah!