In this sequel to Marie, Allan Quatermain helps his Zulu friend Saduko in a crazy battle to win 100 cattle for the dowry of his love Mameena. However, the beautiful and mysterious Mameena, known as the “Child of Storm,” seduces Allan and tries to engage him in marriage.
This edition also includes Magepa the Buck (1887).
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Генри Райдер Хаггард. Child of Storm & Magepa the Buck
Dedication
Author’s Note
Child of Storm
Chapter I. Allan Quatermain Hears of Mameena
Chapter II. The Moonshine of Zikali
Chapter III. The Buffalo with the Cleft Horn
Chapter IV. Mameena
Chapter V. Two Bucks and the Doe
Chapter VI. The Ambush
Chapter VII. Saduko Brings the Marriage Gift
Chapter VIII. The King’s Daughter
Chapter IX. Allan Returns to Zululand
Chapter X. The Smelling-Out
Chapter XI. The Sin of Umbelazi
Chapter XII. Panda’s Prayer
Chapter XIII. Umbelazi the Fallen
Chapter XIV. Umbezi and the Blood Royal
Chapter XV. Mameena Claims the Kiss
Chapter XVI. Mameena – Mameena – Mameena!
Magepa the Buck
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Dear Mr. Stuart,
For twenty years, I believe I am right in saying, you, as Assistant Secretary for Native Affairs in Natal, and in other offices, have been intimately acquainted with the Zulu people. Moreover, you are one of the few living men who have made a deep and scientific study of their language, their customs and their history. So I confess that I was the more pleased after you were so good as to read this tale – the second book[1] of the epic of the vengeance of Zikali, “the Thing-that-should-never-have-been-born,” and of the fall of the House of Senzangakona – when you wrote to me that it was animated by the true Zulu spirit.
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So I rose to go, but as I went some impulse seemed to take him and he called me back and made me sit down again.
“Macumazahn,” he said, “I would add a word. When you were quite a lad you came into this country with Retief, did you not?”
