Child of Storm

DEDICATION

Dear Mr. Stuart,

For twenty years, I believe I am right in saying, you, as Assistant Secretaryfor Native Affairs in Natal, and in other offices, have been intimatelyacquainted with the Zulu people. Moreover, you are one of the few living menwho have made a deep and scientific study of their language, their customs andtheir history. So I confess that I was the more pleased after you were so goodas to read this tale—the second book of the epic of the vengeance ofZikali, “the Thing-that-should-never-have-been-born,” and of thefall of the House of Senzangakona^[1]—whenyou wrote to me that it was animated by the true Zulu spirit.

[1]“Marie” was the first. The third and final act in the drama is yetto come.

I must admit that my acquaintance with this people dates from a period whichclosed almost before your day. What I know of them I gathered at the time whenCetewayo, of whom my volume tells, was in his glory, previous to the evil hourin which he found himself driven by the clamour of his regiments, cut off, asthey were, through the annexation of the Transvaal, from their hereditary tradeof war, to match himself against the British strength. I learned it all bypersonal observation in the ‘seventies, or from the lips of the greatShepstone, my chief and friend, and from my colleagues Osborn, Fynney, Clarkeand others, every one of them long since “gone down.”

Perhaps it may be as well that this is so, at any rate in the case of one whodesires to write of the Zulus as a reigning nation, which now they have ceasedto be, and to try t

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