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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
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

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 his
refined voice and a bearing not altogether common in the wild places of
the world, had earned for him among his rough companions the
/soubriquet/ of "The Prince."
However these things may have been, it is certain that he had emigrated
to Natal under a cloud, and equally certain that his relatives at home
were content to take no further interest in his fortunes. During the
fifteen or sixteen years which