King Solomon's Mines/YMMV

King Solomon's Mines provides examples of:

 * Fair for Its Day: Early in King Solomon's Mines, Quatermain explains that he doesn't use the N-word because he's met more gentlemen in Africa than England, and more people deserving of the N-word in England than Africa.
 * On the other hand, the book also features an interracial romance between Captain Good and a native woman, which was quite cutting edge for its day. However.
 * First Installment Wins

Haggard's sequels and prequels provide examples of:

 * Moment of Awesome: Very many, but one of the best comes in Allan Quatermain when Umslopagaas the mighty Zulu, holds a stair against over a score of enemies in a Heroic Sacrifice, killing nearly every single one of them with his great axe Inkozi-kas 'the Woodpecker' before dying in defense of a young woman he'd only just recently met. The kicker? Umslopogaas was in his sixties.