" Thank Heaven, here you are, Quatermain! I can't quite make out what Ignosi wants to do. It seems that though we have beaten off the attack, Twala is now receiving large reinforcements, and is showing a disposition to invest us, with the view of starving us out."   "That's awkward. "

― H. Rider Haggard , King Solomon's Mines (Allan Quatermain, #1)