Black Heart and White Heart by H. Rider Haggard - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)

By H. Rider Haggard

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• Language: English
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• Release date: Jul 17, 2017
• ISBN: 9781788771726

H. Rider Haggard

H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925) was a popular English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, including King Solomon's Mines and She.

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The Complete Works of

H. RIDER HAGGARD

VOLUME 24 OF 72

Black Heart and White Heart

Parts Edition

By Delphi Classics, 2015

Version 2

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‘Black Heart and White Heart’

H. Rider Haggard: Parts Edition (in 72 parts)

First published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by Delphi Classics.

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H. RIDER HAGGARD

IN 72 VOLUMES

Parts Edition Contents

Ayesha Series

The Rise and Fall of the Zulu Nation Series

The Novels

1, Dawn

2, The Witch’s Head

3, King Solomon’s Mines

4, She

5, Jess

6, Allan Quatermain

7, Mr Meeson’s Will

8, Maiwa’s Revenge

9, Colonel Quaritch, V.C.

10, Cleopatra

11, Allan’s Wife

12, Beatrice

13, The World’s Desire

14, Eric Brighteyes

15, Nada the Lily

16, Montezuma’s Daughter

17, The People of the Mist

18, Joan Haste

19, Heart of the World

20, The Wizard

21, Dr Therne

22, Swallow: A Tale of the Great Trek

23, Elissa

24, Black Heart and White Heart

25, Lysbeth

26, Pearl-Maiden

27, Stella Fregelius

28, The Brethren

29, Ayesha: The Return of She

30, The Way of the Spirit

31, Benita: An African Romance

32, Fair Margaret

33, The Ghost Kings

34, The Yellow God

35, The Lady of Blossholme

36, Morning Star

37, Queen Sheba’s Ring

38, Red Eve

39, Marie

40, Child of Storm

41, The Wanderer’s Necklace

42, The Holy Flower

43, The Ivory Child

44, Finished

45, Love Eternal

46, Moon of Israel

47, When the World Shook

48, The Ancient Allan

49, She and Allan

50, The Virgin of the Sun

51, Wisdom’s Daughter

52, Heu-Heu

53, Queen of the Dawn

54, The Treasure of the Lake

55, Allan and the Ice Gods

56, Mary of Marion Isle

57, Belshazzar

The Short Stories

58, Allan the Hunter

59, A Tale of Three Lions

60, Prince: Another Lion

61, Hunter Quatermain’s Story

62, Long Odds

63, Smith and the Pharoahs

64, Magepa the Buck

65, The Blue Curtains

66, Little Flower

67, Only a Dream

68, Barbara Who Came Back

69, The Mahatma and the Hare

Selected Non-Fiction

70, Cetywayo and His White Neighbors

71, A Winter Pilgrimage

The Biography

72, The Days of My Life

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Black Heart and White Heart

CONTENTS

AUTHOR’S NOTE

CHAPTER I

PHILIP HADDEN AND KING CETYWAYO

CHAPTER II

THE BEE PROPHESIES

CHAPTER III

THE END OF THE HUNT

CHAPTER IV

NANEA

CHAPTER V

THE DOOM POOL

CHAPTER VI

THE GHOST OF THE DEAD

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 Phoenician 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.

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 he had spent in or about the colony, Hadden followed many trades, and did no good at any of them. A clever man, of agreeable and prepossessing manner, he always found it easy to form friendships and to secure a fresh start in life. But, by degrees, the friends were seized with a vague distrust of him; and, after a period of more or less application, he himself would close the opening that he had made by a sudden disappearance from the