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GOOD-BYE
4. ISHMAEL
5. NOIE
6. THE CASTING OF THE LOTS
7. THE MESSAGE OF THE KING
8. MR. DOVE VISITS ISHMAEL
9. THE TAKING OF NOIE
10. THE OMEN OF THE STAR
11. ISHMAEL VISITS THE Inkosazana
12. RACHEL SEES A VISION
13. RICHARD COMES
14. WHAT CHANCED AT RAMAH
15. RACHEL COMES HOME
16. THE THREE DAYS
17. RACHEL LOSES HER SPIRIT
18. THE CURSE OF THE Inkosazana
19. RACHEL FINDS HER SPIRIT
20. THE MOTHER OF THE TREES
21. THE CITY OF THE DEAD
22. IN THE SANCTUARY
23. THE DREAM IN THE NORTH
24. THE END AND THE BEGINNING
EXTRACT
FROM LETTER HEADED "THE KING'S KRAAL, ZULULAND, 12TH MAY, 1855."
_"The Zulus about here have a strange story of a white girl who in Dingaan's day was supposed to 'hold the spirit' of some legendary goddess of theirs who is also white. This girl, they say, was very beautiful and brave, and had great power in the land before the battle of the Blood River, which they fought with the emigrant Boers. Her title was Lady of the Zulus, or more shortly, Zoola, which means Heaven.
"She seems to have been the daughter of a wandering, pioneer missionary, but the king, I mean Dingaan, murdered her parents, of whom he was jealous, after which she went mad and cursed the nation, and it is to this curse that they still attribute the death of Dingaan, and their defeats and other misfortunes of that time.
"Ultimately, it appears, in order to be rid of this girl and her evil eye, they sold her to the doctors of a dwarf people, who lived far away in a forest and worshipped trees, since when nothing more has been heard of her. But according to them the curse stopped behind.
"If I can find out anything more of this curious story I will let you know, but I doubt if I shall be able to do so. Although fifteen years or so have passed since Dingaan's death in 1840 the Kaffirs are very shy of talking about this poor lady, and, I think, onl