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An early episode in an adventurer’s life recounts his participation in a Boer commission to Zulu territory, the ambush that leaves many killed, and his narrow survival with a trusted servant. Personal threads of courtship and marriage are interwoven with the trek-Boers’ suffering in fever-stricken regions. The narrative mixes reconstructed historical incidents and imagined scenes to portray tensions between colonists and indigenous polities, to depict camp life, councils, and a dramatic shooting and trial, and to trace the moral and legal aftermath of violence. An editor’s preface frames the tale as a recovered manuscript offering both history and intimate memory.

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Title: Marie: An Episode in the Life of the Late Allan Quatermain

Author: H. Rider Haggard

Release date: March 1, 1999 [eBook #1690]
Most recently updated: February 4, 2021

Language: English

Credits: Christopher Hapka, and David Widger

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Marie

AN EPISODE IN THE LIFE OF THE LATE ALLAN QUATERMAIN

by H. Rider Haggard


Contents

DEDICATION
PREFACE
EDITOR’S NOTE

CHAPTER I. ALLAN LEARNS FRENCH
CHAPTER II. THE ATTACK ON MARAISFONTEIN
CHAPTER III. THE RESCUE
CHAPTER IV. HERNANDO PEREIRA
CHAPTER V. THE SHOOTING MATCH
CHAPTER VI. THE PARTING
CHAPTER VII. ALLAN’S CALL
CHAPTER VIII. THE CAMP OF DEATH
CHAPTER IX. THE PROMISE
CHAPTER X. VROUW PRINSLOO SPEAKS HER MIND
CHAPTER XI. THE SHOT IN THE KLOOF
CHAPTER XII. DINGAAN’S BET
CHAPTER XIII. THE REHEARSAL
CHAPTER XIV. THE PLAY
CHAPTER XV. RETIEF ASKS A FAVOUR
CHAPTER XVI. THE COUNCIL
CHAPTER XVII. THE MARRIAGE
CHAPTER XVIII. THE TREATY
CHAPTER XIX. DEPART IN PEACE
CHAPTER XX. THE COURT-MARTIAL
CHAPTER XXI. THE INNOCENT BLOOD