Treasure hunters, warring with each other, arrive in the bay, on the shores of which stands the fort of the Count d'Chastillon, a French exile who lives here with his niece and a hundred trusted people. Each of them thinks that the count found those same Montezuma diamonds. When it turns out that this is not the case, it becomes obvious that without a map there is no point in continuing the search. And the map turns out to be in the possession of none other than Terence Woolmi, nicknamed the Black... Escaping from his pursuers, John Reynolds ends up in the mysterious Valley of the Lost, where he will see the lost race... The girl is left alone, without a horse, in the jungles of India. A stranger saves her from a tiger attack. After some time they realize that they love each other. But they cannot be together for several reasons, one of which is that the young man is not really what he seems... These and other adventure stories and stories were included in the collection of the classic of American literature Robert E. Howard (1906–1936).