Quote:robkelk wrote:I wasn't conflating the two sources, but I was mis-remembering Haggard's original story, where it was not the Mountains of the Moon, but rather Sheba's Breasts. I was likely conflating Alan Quartermain with one of his real-life counterparts, Sir Richard Francis Burton, who did go to the Mountains of the Moon in search for the Nile.Quote:Jorlem wrote:Ebony (or Ebony's source) might be conflating two legendary mines... Edgar Allan Poe put Eldorado "over the Mountains of the Moon"Quote:Ebony wrote:Would you be willing to point me towards a source for that? I can't seem to locate it.
The Mountains of the Moon are also the location of the legendary mines of King Solomon. Methinks the school has little or no problems with funding.
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