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Dear Mr Stuart, For twenty years, I believe I a, 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 uage, their customs and their history So I confess that I was the

ood as to read this tale--the

second book 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

[--"Marie" was the first The third and final act in the

drama is yet to come]

I must admit that my acquaintance with this people dates from a period

which closed alathered

at the tilory,

previous to the evil hour in which he found hiih the annexation

of the Transvaal, froainst the British strength I learned it all by personal observation