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From the opening
CHAPTER I. ALLAN QUATERMAIN MEETS ANSCOMBE
CHAPTER II. MR. MARNHAM
CHAPTER III. THE HUNTERS HUNTED
CHAPTER IV. DOCTOR RODD
CHAPTER V. A GAME OF CARDS
CHAPTER VI. MISS HEDA
CHAPTER VII. THE STOEP
CHAPTER VIII. RODD’S LAST CARD
CHAPTER IX. FLIGHT
CHAPTER X. NOMBÉ
CHAPTER XI. ZIKALI
CHAPTER XII. TRAPPED
CHAPTER XIII. CETEWAYO
CHAPTER XIV. THE VALLEY OF BONES
CHAPTER XV. THE GREAT COUNCIL
CHAPTER XVI. WAR
CHAPTER XVII. KAATJE BRINGS NEWS
CHAPTER XVIII. ISANDHLWANA
CHAPTER XIX. ALLAN AWAKES
CHAPTER XX. HEDA’S TALE
CHAPTER XXI. THE KING VISITS ZIKALI
CHAPTER XXII. THE MADNESS OF NOMBÉ
CHAPTER XXIII. THE KRAAL JAZI
You are, I know, a lover of old Allan Quatermain, one who understands
and appreciates the views of life and the aspirations that underlie and
inform his manifold adventures.
Therefore, since such is your kind wish, in memory of certain hours
wherein both of us found true refreshment and companionship amidst the
terrible anxieties of the World’s journey along that bloodstained road
by which alone, so it is decreed, the pure Peak of Freedom must be
scaled, I dedicate to you this tale telling of the events and
experiences of my youth.
This book, although it can be read as a separate story, is the third of
the trilogy of which Marie and Child of Storm are the first two
parts. It narrates, through the mouth of Allan Quatermain, the
consummation of the vengeance of the wizard Zikali, alias The Opener of
Roads, or “The-Thing-that-should-never-have-been-born,” upon the royal
Zulu House of which Senzangacona was the founder and Cetewayo, our
enemy in the war of 1879, the last representative who ruled as a king.
Although, of course, much is added for the purposes of romance, the
main facts of history have been adhered to with some faithfulness.
With these the author became acquainted a full generation ago, Fortune
having given him a part in the events that preceded the Zulu War.
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