CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
BLACK HEART AND WHITE HEART
by H. Rider Haggard
DEDICATION
To the Memory of the Child
Nada Burnham,
who "bound all to her" and, while her father cut his way through the hordes of the Ingobo Regiment, perished
of the hardships of war at Buluwayo on 19th May, 1896, I dedicate these tales--and more particularly the last,
that of a Faith which triumphed over savagery and death.
H. Rider Haggard.
Ditchingham.
AUTHOR'S NOTE
BLACK HEART AND WHITE HEART
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Of the three stories that comprise this volume[*], one, "The Wizard," a tale of victorious faith, first appeared
some years ago as a Christmas Annual. Another, "Elissa," is an attempt, difficult enough owing to the
scantiness of the material left to us by time, to recreate the life of the ancient Phœnician Zimbabwe, whose
ruins still stand in Rhodesia, and, with the addition of the necessary love story, to suggest circumstances such
as might have brought about or accompanied its fall at the hands of the surrounding savage tribes. The third,
"Black Heart and White Heart," is a story of the courtship, trials and final union of a pair of Zulu lovers in the
time of King Cetywayo.
[*] This text was prepared from a volume published in 1900 titled "Black Heart and White Heart, and Other
Stories."--JB.
BLACK HEART AND WHITE HEART
A ZULU IDYLL
by H. Rider Haggard
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CHAPTER I
PHILIP HADDEN AND KING CETYWAYO
At the date of our introduction to him, Philip Hadden was a transport- rider and trader in "the Zulu." Still on
the right side of forty, in appearance he was singularly handsome; tall, dark, upright, with keen eyes,
short-pointed beard, curling hair and clear-cut features. His life had been varied, and there were passages in it
which he did not narrate even to his most intimate friends. He was of gentle birth, however, and it was said
that he had received a public school and university education in England. At any rate he could quote the
classics with aptitude on occasion, an accomplishment which, coupled with hi