Child of Storm
H. Rider Haggard
eBook
(, Oct. 26, 2019)
"In this sequel to Marie, Allan Quatermain helps his Zulu friend Saduko in a crazy battle to win 100 cattle for the dowry of his love Mameena. However, the beautiful and mysterious Mameena, known as the ""Child of Storm,"" seduces Allan and tries to engage him in marriage. Excerpt from Child of Storm Dear Mr. Stuart, For twenty years, I believe I am right in saying, you, as Assistant Secretary for Native Affairs in Natal, and in other offices, have been intimately acquainted with the Zulu people. Moreover, you are one of the few living men who have made a deep and scientific study of their language, their customs and their history. So I confess that I was the more pleased after you were so good as to read this tale the second book of the epic of the vengeance of Zikali, ""the Thing-that-should-never-have-been-born,"" and of the fall of the House of Senzangakona - when you wrote to me that it was animated by the true Zulu spirit. I must admit that my acquaintance with this people dates from a period which closed almost before your day. What I know of them I gathered at the time when Cetewayo, of whom my volume tells, was in his glory, previous to the evil hour in which he found himself driven by the clamour of his regiments, cut off, as they were, through the annexation of the Transvaal from their hereditary trade of war, to match himself against the British strength."