I. The Girl

z. The Boy
3. 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 returns 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
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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The two of them crept to the mouth of the cave " .
The Zulu leapt into the air "
The captains seized Ishmael by the arm "
He kissed her on the lips " .
She seemed no woman, but a queen of Spirits "
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FROM LETTER HEADED " THE KINg's KRAAL, ZULULAND,
I2TH MAY, 1855 "
" The Zulus about here have a strange story of a white girl ivho 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 m.ean Dingaan, mur- dered 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
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death in 1840 the Kaffirs are very shy of talking about this poor lady, and, I think, otily did so to me because I am neither an official nor a missionary, but one whom they look upon as a friend because I have doctored so many of them. When I asked the Indunas about her at first they pretended total ignorance, but on my pressing the question, one of them said that ' all that tale was unlucky and " went beyond " ivith Mopo.' Now Mopo, as I think I wrote to you, was the man who stabbed King Chaka, Dingaan's brother. He is supposed to have been mixed up in the death of Dingaan also, and to be dead himself. At any rate he vanished away after Panda came to the throne."
THE GHOST KINGS